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Who Speaks for Hispanics?
(January 2009)
Hispanic Interest Groups in Washington
Deirdre Martinez - Author
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Examines the policy stances of two major Hispanic interest groups.
Latinos, now the largest minority in the United States, have been described by the media as the “sleeping giant” of U.S. politics. They have a history of discrimination and the related problem of anti-immigrant sentiment and a lack of progress in the American school system. How do they respond to these challenges? Who leads this diverse...(Read More) |
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Burning Darkness
(July 2008)
A Half Century of Spanish Cinema
Joan Ramon Resina - Editor
Andrés Lema-Hincapié - With assistance from
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Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.
From the origins of the New Spanish Cinema in the 1950s to the end of the last century, Burning Darkness features essays on a selection of essential films by Spain’s most important directors, including Pedro Almodóvar, Luis Buñuel, Víctor Erice, Ventura Pons, and others. Contributors focus on current theoretic...(Read More) |
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Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions
(March 2008)
Marybeth Gasman - Editor
Benjamin Baez - Editor
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner - Editor
Walter R. Allen - Foreword by
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Explores the particulars of minority-serving institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness.
Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions explores these important institutions while also highlighting their interconnectedness, with the hope of sparking collaboration among the various types. Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) enroll and graduate the majority of students of color in the United St...(Read More) |
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Identity, Memory, and Diaspora
(February 2008)
Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers
Jorge J. E. Gracia - Editor
Lynette M. F. Bosch - Editor
Isabel Alvarez Borland - Editor
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Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.
This fascinating volume contains interviews with nineteen prominent Cuban-American artists, writers, and philosophers who tell their stories and share what they consider important for understanding their work. Struggling with issues of Cuban-American identity in particular and social identity in gen...(Read More) |
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Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture
(October 2007)
From Franco to LA MOVIDA
Gema Perez-Sanchez - Author
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Offers a sustained analysis of both high and low queer culture and its connections to cultural and political processes in Spain.
Gema Pérez-Sánchez argues that the process of political and cultural transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain can be read allegorically as a shift from a dictatorship that followed a self-loathing “homosexual” model to a democracy that identified as a ...(Read More) |
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Cuba
(August 2007)
Idea of a Nation Displaced
Andrea O'Reilly Herrera - Editor
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Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.
In Cuba, internationally renowned artists, philosophers, and writers reflect on the idea of a nation displaced. Featuring contributions from Isabel Alvarez Borland, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, María Cristina García, William Navarrete, Eliana Rivero, Rafael Rojas, and Carlos Victoria, as well a...(Read More) |
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The Censorship Files
(January 2007)
Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain
Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola - Author
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Investigates the role played by censorship in the Spanish-language publishing industry, which led to the Latin American Boom literature of the 1960s and 1970s.
Drawing on extensive research in the Spanish National Archive, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola examines the role played by the censorship apparatus of Franco’s Spain in bringing about the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. He reveals the n...(Read More) |
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Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life
(August 2006)
Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology
Dolores Delgado Bernal - Editor
C. Alejandra Elenes - Editor
Francisca E. Godinez - Editor
Sofia Villenas - Editor
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2006 AESA Critics’ Choice Awards (American Educational Studies Association)
This first-of-its-kind volume bridges Chicana/Latina feminist perspectives with education and offers innovative ideas on teaching and learning, and ways of knowing.
This groundbreaking volume explores both Chicana/Latina feminist definitions of teaching and learning, and ways of knowing in education. The book&rsqu...(Read More) |
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Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of City Redistricting
(March 2004)
Minority-Opportunity Districts and the Election of Hispanics and Blacks to City Councils
Joshua G. Behr - Author
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Nationwide study of the proposal and adoption of minority-opportunity districts at the local level.
Why do cities with similar minority populations vary greatly in the adoption of minority-opportunity districts and, by extension, differ in the number of elected Hispanic and black representatives? Through in-depth research of the districting processes of more than 100 cities, Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Cit...(Read More) |
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Subtractive Schooling
(October 1999)
U.S. - Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
Angela Valenzuela - Author
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2001 AESA Critics' Choice Award
2000 AERA Outstanding Book Award
2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards--Honorable Mention
Provides an enhanced sense of what’s required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.–Mexican youth in America.
“Valenzuela’s thoughtful and thorough analysis of Latino/a students’ e...(Read More) |
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