Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic American Studies

How can you find and identify the right Latina to date, love or marry when the United States includes such an increasingly wide and confusing diversity of them? Three-time #1 bestselling author Joe Bovino's latest #1 bestseller, Chicaspotting: A Field Guide to Latinas of the United States, combines the accuracy and precision of a bird guide with beautiful illustrations, outlandish observational humor, and keen cultural insights on every page. It's the ultimate -chicaspotting- companion.

With its user-friendly trait charts, promiscuity ratings, range maps, and detailed...

I am learning the alchemy of grief how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted but I have not yet mastered this art, writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer s return to her native Puerto Rico after her mother has been diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer.

Cofer s work has always drawn strength from her life s contradictions and dualities, such as the necessities and demands of both English and Spanish, her travels between and within various mainland and island subcultures, and the...

"El Centrolista2012-2015" is written to inspire Yes we Can Hispanic Si se Puede Republican, Democrat, and liberal political warriors to register, participate, and vote for human-first American politics in America today. The text in this book consists of my cyberpolitical advice and correspondence to and from President Barack Obama in our effort to dignify humanity by way of Hispanic political power as I see it.

This volume is the result of five years of research about the juridical Latinization policy developed by Rome in the West, focusing on the integration -under the protection of the Latinity- of a set of Hispanian communities, promoted -in the Republican era- to colonial status and -during the Roman Empire- to the municipal. This research aims to raise the plausibility, from the existence in Augustan age of fifty 'oppida of ancient Latium', and many literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidences scattered in the preserved documentation, that Rome had introduced in Hispania a...

Edward H. Spicer's informative Introduction sets the stage for comparing "popular" and "scientific" medicine. "Graduates of medical schools have been taught that their body of knowledge is the one true medical tradition. The world has many medicines and thousands of practitioners who do not believe that "Western" medicine is a universal cure-all. These...

Chicano activist, poet, artist, intellectual, professor, and musician, Jos? Montoya (1932?2013) was a veritable Renaissance man. Montoya often found inspiration in the verdant fields of the San Joaquin Valley where his family arrived from their home in New Mexico in the 1940s looking for work. The visual artist and poet humanized the farmworker and understood the backbreaking work of field labor from firsthand experience. A Chicano civil rights activist, he marched alongside Cesar Chavez and advanced the cause of the United Farm Workers movement to bring justice and dignity to agricultural...