Ethnic category: 7100 books
by María M Carreira, Tom Beeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
With a large percentage of public school students being Latino, the future of America is intertwined with that of Latino youth and their educational experience. Who are these children, and how are they transforming and being transformed by this nation? Voces: Latino Students on Life in the United...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
"Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."—Laurence Gonzales, Chicago Tribune
They are sometimes called the people who died twice, once at the hands of the Spaniards and their brutal process of civilization, then at the...
Seeing White
An Introduction to White Privilege and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This interdisciplinary textbook challenges students to see race as everyone's issue. Drawing on sociology, psychology, and economics, Seeing White introduces students to the concepts of white privilege and social power. Compelling concrete examples illustrate key theoretical perspectives, including...
Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
Decolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Winner, 2018 ASFS (Association for the Study of Food and Society) Book Award, Edited Volume
This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities.
The writers here take us...
Suddenly Jewish
Jews Raised as Gentiles Discover Their Jewish Roots
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
One woman learned on the eve of her Roman Catholic wedding. One man as he was studying for the priesthood. Madeleine Albright famously learned from the Washington Post when she was named Secretary of State. "What is it like to find out you are not who you thought you were?" asks Barbara...
Left of the Color Line
Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African American,...
We Carry Our Homes With Us
A Cuban American Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
On December 30, 1960, Marisella Veiga with her mother and two brothers boarded a plane from Havana to Miami. Her father fled a few months later, joining his family with a total of fourteen U.S. cents in his pocket and an understanding that he would never see his homeland again. Seeking a less competitive...
Leadership Peruvian Style
How Peruvians Define and Practice Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Leadership across cultural borders is the new frontier in leadership studies. Increased globalization means leaders are dealing with a variety of cultures in and out of their own countries. Leaders must be experts in understanding what cultural dimensions mean for being effective outside their own...
The Myth of the Blood
The Genesis of Racialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Written during the rule of National Socialism in Germany and the rise of the so-called Racial Laws in Fascist Italy, The Myth of the Blood offers a unique window into the historical origins of the racialist thought that so fatefully characterized an era. More than a study of history, however, The...
Coral Road
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Garrett Hongo’s long-awaited third collection of poems is a beautiful, elegiac gathering of his Japanese-American ancestors in their Hawaiian landscape and a testament to the power of poetry, as it brings their marginalized yet heroic narratives into the realm of art.
In Coral Road Hongo...
Hemingway's Cuba
Finding the Places and People That Influenced the Writer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway spent about one-third of his life in Cuba and grew to love the country and its people. This travel narrative follows a journey across the island in search of Hemingway’s Cuba and how it influenced some of his writings. The author seeks out Hemingway’s haunts in Old Havana and...
by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2001
By opening the ever-escalating debate regarding Latin America's "underdeveloped" status and cloaking the seriousness of the situation with wit and humor, the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot reached number one status on the nonfiction bestseller lists in many countries in Latin America. It...
Recreating Africa
Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the...
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[Un]framing the "Bad Woman"
Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and Other Rebels with a Cause
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
"What the women I write about have in common is that they are all rebels with a cause, and I see myself represented in their mirror," asserts Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Looking back across a career in which she has written novels, poems, and scholarly works about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, la Malinche,...