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

• Who are you as a Latino?
• Who are you as an American?
• What has Christ to say about your dilemma?
• How can you accept who you are in Christ with joy and confidence?

The newest volume of Perspectives in Mexican American Studies features articles by several new voices, and by others who have a long list of published works to their credit. They provide us with information of interest and offer fresh observations of the Mexican American experience.

The authors include veterans of el movimiento, experienced scholars, and some who are newer on the scene. The topics covered, from sports in the Midwest to small-town life in central Mexico, may seem to have little in common except for their focus on Mexican-descent people, but on closer...

WHAT IS ASK A MEXICAN ?

Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the cliches of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power.

WHY SHOULD I READ ASK A MEXICAN ?

At 37 million strong (or 13 percent of the U.S. population), Latinos have become America's largest minority -- and beaners make up...

-Midway through Water & Power comes a scene so perfectly written, so chilling and yet so hilarious it] encapsulates all the anger and social criticism fueling the play], beginning with the agonizing realization (also central to Culture Clash's smash Chavez Ravine) that the fates of the L.A. many are held in the hands of the often capricious and heartless few.---Variety

-The funniest show the Bay Area comedy troupe has ever written. Culture Clash uses the story of Zorro] as a starting point for a devastatingly hilarious satire of just about everything...

The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O'Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial middle.

The Racial Middle, tells the story of the other racial and ethnic groups in America, mainly Latinos and Asian Americans, two of the largest and fastest-growing minorities in the United States. Using dozens of in-depth interviews with people of various ethnic and generational backgrounds, Eileen O'Brien challenges the notion that, to fit into American culture, the...