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Pregones Theatre: A Theatre for Social Change in the South Bronx
1st Edition
By Eva Cristina Vásquez
August 12, 2014
This is a theatre history, performance studies and U.S. Latino theatre book that examines the artistic, social political contribution of Teatro Pregones to the larger American, Latin American and Puerto Rican theatre communities....
The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000
1st Edition
By Richard Buitron
October 10, 2013
The Quest for Tejano Identity was written as a study of Mexican American consciousness, and a history of the assumptions and intellectual responses of Mexican Americans in south Texas. The work uses history to inquire why different ethnic groups think, act and speak as they do as they encounter ...
Inviting Latino Voters: Party Messages and Latino Party Identification
1st Edition
By Stacey L. Connaughton
September 10, 2012
Latino's increasing numbers and their uncertain voting behaviors have enticed Democrats and Republicans to actively court this demographic group, seeking their partisan identification. Through in-depth interviews with campaign strategists, a quantitative analysis of Latino-oriented television ...
Latino-Anglo Bargaining: Culture, Structure and Choice in Court Mediation
1st Edition
By Christine Rack
September 10, 2012
This book shows the mechanisms by which cultural differences reinforce structural privilege and disadvantage in the informal process of mediated negotiation. Are all people equally likely to pursue their own material self-interest in the negotiation process used in small claims mediation? Did ...
The Promised Land?: The Lives and Voices of Hispanic Immigrants in the New South
1st Edition
By Patricia L. Goerman
September 10, 2012
Through analysis of in-depth interviews with seventy-three Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a rare in-depth look at the views and circumstances of immigrants in a new receiving area. It provides an examination of the new migration trend including an analysis of ...
Caribbean Spanish in the Metropolis: Spanish Language among Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans in the New York City Area
1st Edition
By Edwin M. Lamboy
July 27, 2012
This study focuses on first- and second-generation Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans living in the New York City area. In particular, the author creates a sociolinguistic profile of these cohorts and evaluates their attitudes towards Spanish and English, their use of these languages and their ...
Skin Color and Identity Formation: Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth
1st Edition
By Edward Fergus
July 27, 2012
The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in ...
Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualites
1st Edition
By Manolo Guzmán
June 28, 2012
Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities is an interdisciplinary project that weaves ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material culture to study the intersection of gayness with Latinidad....
Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature: Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950
1st Edition
By Sam Lopez
June 28, 2012
This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years ...
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature: Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities
1st Edition
By Alma Rosa Alvarez
April 10, 2012
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of ...
Latinos in Ethnic Enclaves: Immigrant Workers and the Competition for Jobs
1st Edition
By Stephanie Bohon
December 13, 2000
This work explores the competition for jobs between different Latin American immigrant groups in the U.S. economy. Bohon's research looks at occupational status attainment among Latino groups in Miami and three other U.S. cities with flourishing Latino enclaves....