Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Ellen Riojas Clark, Carmen Tafolla
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This culinary history unwraps the extensive culture surrounding the tamale, bringing together writers, artists, journalists, and Texas’ regional leaders to honor this traditional Latin American dish. It is filled with family stories, recipes, and artwork, and also celebrates tamaladas-the large...
by Mario Bosquez
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2005
The Host of Martha Stewart's "Living Today" on Martha Stewart Living Radio (Sirius 112/XM 157)brings you this insightful look at how a colorful Mexican game of chance inspired him to succeed in life. "The Chalupa Rules" combines his family's timeless proverbs,traditional Spanish...
Culture Clash
Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997
Culture Clash performs nationally throughout the year, including numerous university appearances. L.A.-based, they are currently performing for a month in San Francisco after 3 weeks in Dallas.
La India María
Mexploitation and the Films of María Elena Velasco
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
La India María—a humble and stubborn indigenous Mexican woman—is one of the most popular characters of the Mexican stage, television, and film. Created and portrayed by María Elena Velasco, La India María has delighted audiences since the late 1960s with slapstick humor that slyly critiques...
Entre Guadalupe y Malinche
Tejanas in Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences...
The Woo-Woo
How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds.
Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother...
by Gary Younge
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
From those who insist that Barack Obama is Muslim to the European legislators who go to extraordinary lengths to ban items of clothing worn by a tiny percentage of their populations, Gary Younge shows, in this fascinating, witty, and provocative examination of the enduring legacy and obsession with...
Servitors of Empire
Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Forcing a fundamental rethinking of the Asian American elite, many of whom have attained top positions in business, government, academia, sciences, and the arts, this book will be certain to generate a good deal of controversy and honest discussion regarding the role Asian Americans will play in the...
Culture Is Our Weapon
Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
An inspiring mission to rescue young people from drugs and violence with music
At a time when interest in Brazilian culture has reached an all-time high, and the stories of one person's ability to improve the lives of others has captured so many hearts, this unique book takes readers to the...
Gudrun’s Kitchen
Recipes from a Norwegian Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The youngest of a large Norwegian immigrant family, Gudrun Thue Sandvold was known for her beaming blue eyes and a reserve that gave way to laughter whenever she got together with her sisters. She took immeasurable pride in her children and grandchildren, kept an exquisite home, and turned the most...
by Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Greek Historical Society of the San Francisco Bay
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The history of San Francisco's Greek community is linked to the history of San Francisco. The first Greeks to arrive were sailors, miners, and laborers. By the 1880s, they had formed benevolent, civic, and fraternal organizations. In 1904, the first Greek Orthodox Church west of Chicago was established,...
by Pacific Italian Alliance, Ralph A. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Italians were among the first European settlers in California, as fishermen from Italy arrived in the 1830s. After gold was discovered in 1848, immigrants from all over the world came for the opportunity that California presented. For the Italians, they encountered a terrain and climate so similar to...
Opera in a Multicultural World
Coloniality, Culture, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Through historical and contemporary examples, this book critically explores the relevance and expressions of multicultural representation in western European operatic genres in the modern world. It reveals their approaches to reflecting identity, transmitting meaning, and inspiring creation, as...