Books in the Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues series

This book surveys the people, events, and conditions that shaped Mexican American identity in the Southwestern United States after 1913.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1999. The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the identity development process for Latino gay men. The research focuses on the perceptions of a sample of ten gay men and their process of defining themselves as gay. This study, however, is not only about the men in this study, it is also about the social context in which they have found themselves. It is about the social processes that transpire between Latino gay men and their social context of firmly held Latino family and religious cultural values.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. The aim of this book is to approach Latino fiction from a wider perspective, and to cross the standard critical boundaries between Latino groups in order to focus upon the literary language of a collection of complicated novels and stories.

Based on the observation that schools that represent and accept the ethnic identities of students are more likely to be successful in educating those students, McKissack compares a public high school with a private school founded to serve the Chicano community in Denver, looking at such factors as

This work describes the founding and brief existence of Colegio Cesar Chavez, founded in the Pacific Northwest in 1973. This history of the college tells the story of a Chicano struggle for educational and self determination.

This study examines Latino national political coalitions in the United States with a focus on Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Cubans.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is a theatre history, performance studies and US Latino theatre book that examines the artistic, social political contribution of Teatro Pregones to the larger American, Latin American and Puerto Rican theatre communities.

After acquiring Puerto Rico in 1898, the US engaged in a systematic ideological conquest of the Puerto Rican population through the social science textbooks used in the public school system.

In this qualitative study, Mexican American women were interviewed and their life histories examined using an ethnographic and hermeneutical phenomenological approach.

The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin colour moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of seventeen Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students.

Attempts to show the mechanisms by which cultural differences reinforce structural privilege and disadvantage in the informal process of mediated negotiation. This book demonstrates how there are cultural differences in the way Latinos and Anglos pursue monetary justice.

Latino Americans are key voters for US democracy. Democrats and Republicans to actively court this demographic group, seeking their partisan identification. With in-depth analysis and research, this book delivers major findings.

Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. This study of the 331 metropolitan areas in the United States between 1990 and 2000 shows that Latinos are facing structural inequalities outside of the degree of African ancestry.

Through analysis of interviews with 73 Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a look at the views and circumstances of immigrants. It provides an examination of the migration trend, and argues that important policy changes are needed to benefit and protect both the new arrivals and their wider communities.

Exploring the diverse struggles of incorporation pursued by immigrants from the Dominican Republic to New York City, this work chronicles their lives and the difficulties of incorporating themselves into Amercian politics.

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 liberation theology.