A sweeping yet intimate exploration of Latin America's political history, Forging Latin America profiles fifty-two of the region's most influential figures-from dictators and reformers to artists and priests-who, for better or worse, have shaped its character and destiny from the Spanish Conquest to the present day.
Providing an account of how to discuss interactions between objects found within and across archives work in theoretically and experientially meaningful ways, this book illustrates how Gloria Anzaldua's archives contain objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform the embodied ways of knowing of which she writes.
This book examines one of the most influential Latin American writers of the last decades. Arango explores Gabriel Garcia Marquez's origins, relevance, and themes to provide a new assessment of his Caribbean background and the deep roots of his work in popular culture.
Erasing Identity and Restricting Opportunity at School
Based upon research in rural central Florida, The Latinization of Indigenous Students examines how schools perceive and process demographic information, including how those perceptions may erase Indigeneity and help or hinder resource access.
This work examines Gutierrez's Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003) as a literary response to the social, political, and economic crisis of Cuba's Special Period. The author offers a series of thematically arranged close readings that explore Gutierrez's interpretation of life and reality via his signature semi-autobiographical narrative.
This book examines the ways in which Latino/a theologians approach the Bible and its interpretation today. It brings together for this purpose a splendid array of voices, who reflect the diversity of ecclesial affiliation and religious traditions at work in the project of Latino/a Theology.
Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy outlines the current status of Afro-Latinos in the U.S. economy. The goal of this book is to provide a foundation in the economic dimensions of American Afro-Latinos which can be used to supplement research about this group in other social science disciplines.
This unique volume brings together findings from six separate but interconnected studies, carried out over seven years in the same small bilingual elementary school. During a period of rapid gentrification in Austin, Texas, Hillside Elementary transformed from a predominantly Latinx, under-resourced and under-enrolled neighborhood school with a ......
This study provides a biography of Jose M. Lopez, who earned the US Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. The author examines how he returned to segregation and discrimination in the United States and how court decisions, civil rights legislation, and veterans' organizations became part of the postwar US political agenda.
