These twenty-four essays – written in English and in Spanish – take a fresh look at cultural identities in the Americas from a transnational, inter-American perspective. They explore a variety …
From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigrant rights, the United States has …
For years, conventional scholarship has argued that minority groups are better served when the majority groups that absorb them are willing to recognize and allow for the preservation of indigenous …
Award-winning author of Under the Feet of Jesus, Helena María Viramontes offers a profoundly gritty portrait of everyday life in L.A. in this lyrically muscular, artfully crafted novel. In the …
Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit dem mexikanisch-US-amerikanischen Grenzraum als Ort der imaginativen Verarbeitung interkultureller Erfahrung in der Literatur und Kunst von Chicanos/as. Vor dem Hintergrund disziplinkritischer Ansätze einer New …
Chicanos and Chicanas, or Mexican Americans, are deeply rooted in the cultures of African, European, and Native American groups. This great tripartite cultural legacy is evident in such folklore genres …
Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies is an indispensable reference source comprised of hundreds of key terms central to this important and developing field. * A one-stop resource …
The first and only book of its kind, The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Reader brings together key writings from experts and contributors in this newly-emerging field. The articles embrace a broad …
Lateinamerika erkämpfte sich vor rund 200 Jahren seine Unabhängigkeit von den europäischen Kolonialmächten Spanien, Portugal und Frankreich. Von der Sklavenrevolution in Haiti über die langwierigen Unabhängigkeitskriege im spanischen Amerika bis …
From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean …
