Hispanic & Latino studies books

As screenwriters, archaeologists have been elaborating the plot of the past through material culture, becoming themselves...  Read More >>

Charts how the cultural negotiations that took place in the Oxnard ethnic Mexican community helped shape and empower...  Read More >>

Ana Baca's bilingual tale of how two children from different generations learn to make their family recipe for tamales...  Read More >>

Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the...  Read More >>

Through analysis of in-depth interviews with seventy-three Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers...  Read More >>

Over the past half-century, El Salvador has transformed dramatically. Historically reliant on primary exports like...  Read More >>

Spirit, mind, and heart in traditional Mexican health beliefs all three are inherent to maintaining psychological...  Read More >>

Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World consists of ten chapters that examine the representation of political,...  Read More >>

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The rise of televised boxing and one of its most watched and beloved fighters  Read More >>

While work in theology and religious studies by scholars in Latin America and by Latino/a scholars in the United...  Read More >>

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Drawing upon theories on the novel in Bakhtin's Dialogic Imagination, this book examines Nuevo Romanticismo through...  Read More >>

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Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account....  Read More >>

Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, Puerto Rico Is in the Heart examines the emigration,...  Read More >>

The DREAM Act, bipartisan legislation first introduced in Congress in 2001, would provide conditional residency...  Read More >>

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Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates...  Read More >>

From sensual pleasures and perils, moments and memories of darkness and light, the poems in Orlando Ricardo Menes...  Read More >>

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Through interviews with three generations of Yalalag Zapotecs ( Yalaltecos ) in Los Angeles and Yalalag, Oaxaca,...  Read More >>

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