Melissa Castillo: 4 books

PURE BRONX is a story about the vast diversity of people who make the Bronx what it is-hustlers, gang bangers, immigrants, and the working poor and the powerful interests trying to make money off its struggling people. And it’s about love-what you sacrifice, and what you accept for a chance at real...

A real adventure is never planned. It usually stems from a series of events that ultimately changes a person’s life forever. Like any story that is told throughout time, the truth is lost or misspoken, only to become a distant myth. Mara Watson has just started one of these journeys, the...

Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...

This book uses a gender perspective to study the female Amerindian characters in Early Modern Spanish Comedias. The chapters in this collection bring different approaches and perspectives that intersection between feminism and cultural studies while they also critically deconstruct the European representation of Amerindian women.