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.
Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences.
The Decolonial Witness of El Salvador's Church of the Poor
Reflecting theologically on the 50-year history of ecclesial base communities in El Salvador, this book argues that the church of the poor is a decolonial sacrament of the reign of God. The authors challenge Christians to unlearn colonial expressions of faith, concluding with a retrieval of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition.
The author argues that Borges' Ficciones, Zambrano's Claros del bosque, and Paz's El mono gramatico call into question the conventional distinction between literature and philosophy, and that each text embodies an alternative way of doing philosophy.
Archival Impulses explores the intersection of Chicana/o/x studies, Latina/o/x studies, archival studies, and public memory by examining the archival homes of cultural critic Gloria Anzaldua. This book illustrates how her archive mirrors her philosophy of theories of the flesh and contains objects that, when placed together by the rhetor, perform ......
