Books in the Latinos in the United States series

The 2016 US election saw more Latino votes than the record voter turnout of the 2012 election. These essays provide a highly-detailed analysis of the state and national impact Latino voters had in what will be remembered as one of the biggest surprises in presidential election history.

People avoid speaking about race in the presence of another racial group for fear of saying something wrong. This was not the situation at JB's, a Mexican cantina in one of Houston's oldest Mexican barrios. Tatcho Mindiola, a regular patron, kept notes on the racial exchanges he heard. These form the basis of this insightful volume.

Inspired by a 1968 US Commission on Civil Rights six-day hearing in San Antonio that introduced the Mexican American people to the rest of the nation, this book is an examination of the social change of Mexican Americans of Texas over the past half century.