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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. "Latino" is the most open-ended and ...
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(Re)constructing Memory, Place, and Identity in Twentieth Century Houston: A Memoir on Family and Being Mexican American in Space City USA
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /What does it mean to be Mexican American in Houston, TX?For the Mendoza-Martinez family, the answer to this question is complicated and evolving. I...
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On the Border of a Dream: One Mexican Boy's Journey to Become an American Surgeon
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /On the Border of a Dream is an eye-opening and uplifting autobiography that tells the true story of a boy from rural Mexico, who at a young age se...
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Para Chicas Fuertes de Corazón Tierno Y Piel Canela: Una Carta de Amor Para Muje Res de Color / For Brown Girls with Tender Hearts and Sharp Edges
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A través de su íntima manera de narrar y su cálido abrazo a las mujeres de color para quienes escribe, Mojica Rodríguez también abraza dulcemente ...
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First-Gen, NextGen: A Guide to Thriving as a First-Generation Latinx in the Next Generation of the American Workforce
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Focusing on the first five years of a young professional's career, First-Gen, NextGen explores the formation of first-generation Latinx individual'...
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Latino Almanac: From Early Explorers to Corporate Leaders
HardcoverOriginal price $74.95Original price $74.95 - Original price $74.95Original price $74.95Current price $60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Nearly 650 biographies of history-making Latinos Explores the Latino identity in the United States today, the history of Hispanic Americans, as we...
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Magical Habits
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and...
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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Burdened by poverty, illiteracy, and vulnerability as Mexican immigrants to California's Coachella Valley, three generations of Gonz lez men turn t...
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Autobiography of My Hungers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.50 - Original price $17.50Original price $17.50$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the second of his trio of acclaimed memoirs, Rigoberto González looks at his past through a startling lens: hunger. A childhood of neglect, adol...
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Scenes from La Cuenca de Los Angeles y Otros Natural Disasters
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This is a rarity in contemporary writing, a truly bilingual enterprise, as in Susana Chávez-Silverman's previous memoir, Killer Crónicas. Chávez-Si...
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Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780299219048 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Publication Date: 09-01-2011 Pages: 224 Produc...
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Juan Felipe Herrera: Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /For the first time, this book presents the distinguished, prolific, and highly experimental writer Juan Felipe Herrera. This wide-ranging collecti...
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Borderless: The Art of Luis Tapia
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1950, sculptor Luis Tapia is a pioneering Chicano artist who for forty-five years has pushed the art of polychrome...
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Intersections of Harm: Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places ...
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Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antoni...
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Crux: A Daughter's Quest for Her Border-Crossing Father
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and ...
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Latinx. En Busca de Las Voces Que Redefinen La Identidad Latina / Latinx. in Sea Rch of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /De la presentadora del show de MSNBC, Field Report with Paola Ramos El primer paso hacia el cambio es reconocer que nuestro poder nace de nuestra i...
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Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence...
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When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780816549962 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: University of Arizona Press Publication Date: 12-12-2023 Pages: 280 Series: ...
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Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A bridge that interrupts a legacy of pain with the honest sharing of stories.Sana, Sana is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landsca...
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Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—A...
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Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping Race, Culture, and Faith in Latina/o Catholicism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The concept of mestizaje-a reference to the distinctive biological and cultural intermixture that occurred in the. "New World"-has become a found...
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Secrets of Mayan Science/Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Secrets of Mayan Science/Religion reveals the sacred teachings that were hidden by the Mayan priesthood shortly after the Spanish Conquistadors l...
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Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention) Horne brings to light the lives of black Americans living along the Mexi...
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