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REVOLUTIONIZING ROMANCE Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba Nadine T Fernandez
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DIGITAL DILEMMAS The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba Cristina Venegas “Cristina Venegas’s well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic.” —Yiedy Rivero, author of Tuning Out Blackness 250 pp • 11 photos • 978-0-8135-4687-2 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27 New Directions in International Studies
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IN LADY LIBERTY’S SHADOW The Politics of Race and Immigration in New Jersey Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
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VILLAGE OF IMMIGRANTS
Latinos in an Emerging America Diana R. Gordon
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latinos in an emerging america diana r. gordon
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Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era Elise Andaya “Andaya reveals the complex entanglement of women’s reproductive choices, healthcare practices, and the state’s agenda to reshape gender ideologies. This rich ethnography will appeal to regional specialists, and to scholars of gender, reproduction, postsocialism, and social change.” —Nadine Fernandez, author of Revolutionizing Romance: Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba 192 pp • 978-0-8135-6519-4 • Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87
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El Salvador’s Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace Sandy Smith-Nonini
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Healing tHe Body Politic El Salvador’s Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace
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SURVIVING HIV/AIDS IN THE INNER CITY How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds Sabrina Chase
Surviving HIV/AIDS “In this original and interdisciplinary in the Inner City book, Chase illuminates the unequal treatment faced by the Puerto Rican women she studied and creates compassion for the hardships that they faced.” —Michele Tracy Berger, author of The Intersectional Approach How Resourceful Latinas Beat the Odds
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IMAGINING ASIA IN THE AMERICAS
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PUERTO RICANS IN THE EMPIRE Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism Teresita A. Levy
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WOMEN’S ACTIVISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Engendering Social Justice, Democratizing Citizenship Edited by Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon “Maier and Lebon have assembled an outstanding collection of essays on women’s activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The result is a refreshing work that will become a landmark study and a comprehensive resource that researchers and students will consult for years to come. Essential.” —Choice
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PATIENT CITIZENS, IMMIGRANT MOTHERS
Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers
Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth Weight Paradox Alyshia Galvez
Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox
Alyshia Gálvez “Alyshia Galvez challenges conventional wisdom on how Latinas plan families, making a very important contribution to understanding the Latino health paradox.” —Peter J. Guarnaccia, Ph.D., Rutgers University
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HEALTH ISSUES IN LATINO MALES A Social and Structural Approach Edited by Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Luisa N. Borrell, and William Vega
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WAR ECHOES
Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production Ariana E. Vigil “Bravo! In War Echoes we finally see an honest and courageous account of the productive tensions and uneasy alliances among U.S. Latina/os as they engage the problem of U.S. military intervention in Central America and the Middle East.” —Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez, author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries 250 pp • 978-0-8135-6933-8 • Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87
INTERSECTIONS OF HARM
Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance Laura Halperin “With scholarship that is broad and deep,Intersections of Harm offers excellent, original, and nuanced readings of Latina/o literature that add to ongoing conversations in Latina literary studies and beyond.” —Suzanne Bost, author of Encarnación: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature 254 pp • 978-0-8135-7036-5 • Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97
POLICE, POWER, AND THE PRODUCTION OF RACIAL BOUNDARIES Ana Muñiz
“The genius of Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries is in the author’s skillful analysis on the ‘other side’ of the criminal justice system. This book stands out precisely because it turns a critical eye toward the creators and enforcers of the law.” —Christopher Bickel, California State University, San Marcos 154 pp • 9 photos, 5 figures, 2 tables • 978-0-8135-6975-8 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87 Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Building Student Community in Higher Education Derrick R. Brooms, Jelisa Clark, and Matthew Smith
EMPOWERING MEN OF COLOR ON CAMPUS
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The Consequences of Work Stress on Underrepresented NEW Minority Faculty Ruth Enid Zambrana
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SOVEREIGN ACTS
Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone Katherine A. Zien “Examines the ‘performance’ of claims to the Canal Zone in popular entertainments, civic pageantry, and other realms reflecting the competing interests of Panamanians, West Indian laborers, and white U.S. citizens; covers 1903 to 1999.” —Chronicle 272 pp • 27 photos, 2 maps • 978-0-8135-8410-2 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.47
THE DOMINICAN RACIAL IMAGINARY
Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola Milagros Ricourt “A necessary book to rethink Dominican racial identities. Ricourt challenges the hegemonic national imaginary and brings forward alternative discourses and practices highlighting the presence of Dominican Black identities and culture.” —José Itzigsohn, Brown University 240 pp, 9 photos, 2 figures, 2 maps, 8 tables 978-0-8135-8447-8 • Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
OUR CARIBBEAN KIN Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles Alaí Reyes-Santos
“Reyes-Santos builds on her conceptualization of transcolonial and transnational kinship through a number of social and cultural examples to arrive at a more diversified approach in literary and cultural studies.” —Myrna García-Calderón, Syracuse University 244 pp • 2 illustrations • 978-0-8135-7199-7 Paperback • $31.95S Sale Price $22.36
THE THINGS THAT FLY IN THE NIGHT
Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora Giselle Liza Anatol “The Things That Fly in the Night is an important book in the growing scholarship of Caribbean folklore and literature. Encyclopedic in its scope and grand in its theoretical ambition, Anatol’s study of the specters of Caribbean occult should be read by everyone interested in Afro-diasporic culture.” —Natasha Barnes, author of Cultural Conundrums: Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics 312 pp • 8 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6573-6 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.46
RUTGERS SERIES IN CHILDHOOD STUDIES LIFE ON THE MALECÓN Children and Youth on the Streets of Santo Domingo Jon M. Wolseth
LIFE ON THE MALECÓN CHILDREN AND YOUTH ON THE STREETS OF SANTO DOMINGO
“The stories Wolseth tells are compelling. The children’s voices challenge readers to rethink one-sided views about poor street youth and encourage them to adopt more nuanced approaches to poor kids ‘choices.’” —Martha K. Huggins, Tulane University
Jon M. Wolseth
240 pp • 978-0-8135-6287-2 • Paperback $30.95S Sale Price $21.66
PLEASURES AND PERILS
Girls’ Sexuality in a Caribbean Consumer Culture Debra Curtis “Pleasures and Perils is an accessible yet theoretically astute introduction to theories of sexual subjectivity, discourse, and mediation. It is also a compellingly written story about an island in transition and about the girls who are coming to adulthood as these shifts take place.” —New West Indian Guide 256 pp • 978-0-8135-4430-4 • Paperback $29.95S Sale Price $20.97
YOUTH IN POSTWAR GUATEMALA
Education and Civic Identity in Transition Michelle J. Bellino “A narrative account of how students and teachers at four very different Guatemalan secondary schools negotiate the complexities of history and identity. Bellino provides a brilliant model of nuanced inquiry into the vicissitudes of citizenship education for fragile democracies.” —Bradley Levinson, Indiana University 270 pp, 1 table • 978-0-8135-8799-8 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.46
BODIES IN CRISIS
Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina Barbara Sutton “A masterful study on embodiment and modes of feminity in 21st century Argentina. It is accessible enough to be used with upper-level undergraduates even as it is detailed and complex enough to be essential for specialists in Argentina, a difficult balance which Sutton nonetheless achieves flawlessly.” —Anthropological Quarterly
bodies in crisis
Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina
Barbara Sutton
270 pp • 978-0-8135-4740-4 • Paperback • $30.95S Sale Price $21.67
JOSÉ VASCONCELOS The Prophet of Race Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans insightfully and comprehensively examines the [1925 essay, “Mestizaje”] in biographical and historical context, and considers how many in the United States, especially Chicanos during the civil rights era, used it as a platform for their political agenda. 142 pp • 1 illustration • 978-0-8135-5064-0 Paperback • $23.95S Sale Price $16.77
A PLACE TO BE
Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida’s New Destinations Edited by Philip Williams, Timothy Steigenga, and Manuel A. Vásquez “A Place to Be is a must-read for everyone interested in religion and transnational communities. The book’s innovative focus on lived religion and collective mobilization considerably advances theories of both international migration and religion.” —Alex Stepick, Florida International University 288 pp • 978-0-8135-4493-9 • Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $18.17
LATINA/O STUDIES & LAT HAITI AND THE USES OF AMERICA
A YEAR IN WHITE
Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States C. Lynn Carr
Post-U.S. Occupation Promises Chantalle F. Verna
“[Carr] offers both an insider and outsider perspective (initiate and researcher) that allows us to be privy to the trials and triumphs, the struggles and joys of committing to a faith largely misunderstood and often disparaged by the American mainstream.” —Times Higher Education
C H A N TA L L E F. V E R N A
DEMANDING JUSTICE AND SECURITY
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Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America Edited by Rachel Sieder
HUMANITARIAN AFTERSHOCKS IN HAITI
“Demanding Justice and Security offers a panoramic view of Latin American indigenous women’s strategies for combating gendered violence and of creating constructive justice alternatives grounded in indigenous concepts of collective rights and autonomy. Beautifully written ethnography and crisp theory make this a particularly useful classroom book.” —Lynn Stephen, author of We are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
Mark Schuller
“Mark Schuller offers clear analysis, informed by empirical knowledge. This sets him apart from the usual experts on Haiti. A challenging book from an author who goes the distance to understand the ‘other’.” —Raoul Peck, award-winning Haitian filmmaker and director of Fatal Assistance 312 pp • 10 photos, 4 tables 978-0-8135-7423-3 • Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
310 pp, 2 figures, 1 table • 978-0-8135-8792-9 Paperback • $34.95S Sale Price $24.46
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RETURN TO CENTRO HISTÓRICO
Sexually Nonconforming Latinas Negotiate Family Katie L. Acosta
AMIGAS Y AMANTES
A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots Ilan Stavans
“Amigas y Amantes makes a significant contribution to understanding the lives of ‘sexually nonconforming’ Latina women. Acosta compellingly reveals the life experiences of these women, the challenges they face, and the way they handle these challenges.” —Anita Garey, author of Weaving Work and Motherhood
“A hypnotic, moving exploration of history and identity, wry and entertaining and wise. In this dialogue with a lifetime of photos, Ilan Stavans creates and recreates a world rarely seen.” —Ariel Dorfman, author of Feeding on Dreams
192 pp, 3 graphs, 1 figure, 1 table • 978-0-8135-6195-0 Paperback • $24.95S Sale Price $17.46
180 pp, 21 color and 62 b/w photos • 978-0-8135-5191-3 Cloth • $24.95T Sale Price $17.46
Leadership from the
Women and Civil Society Organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador
“Serena Cosgrove effectively captures the dynamics of women’s civil society Serena organizing in this carefully written book. CoSgrove Her excellent and compelling ethnographic explorations are bound to inspire reflection, action, and committed scholarship.” —Elisabeth Jay Friedman, University of San Francisco
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Women and Civil Society Organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador Serena Cosgrove
248 pp • 978-0-8135-4800-5 • Paperback • $30.95S Sale Price $21.67
DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS OF FARMWORKERS
Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor Barbara Wells
Daughters and Granddaughters of
Farmworkers
EMERGING FROM THE LONG SHADOW OF FARM LABOR Barbara Wells
“[An] examination of the legacy of immigrant conditions on latter generations.” —Karen Pyke, University of California 256 pp • 10 photos, 1 map, 1 table • 978-0-8135-6284-1 Paperback • $30.95S Sale Price $21.66 Families in Focus
KILLING WITH KINDNESS
Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs Mark Schuller “Mark Schuller provides something that has been sorely lacking from this story—an ethnographic account of nongovernmental politics in Haiti, a country many now dub ‘the Republic of NGOs.’” —Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
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“This groundbreaking, deeply researched, and richly rewarding study illuminates that Haitians were key agents of inter-American connection and collaboration during the mid-twentieth century. Chantalle F. Verna rethinks Haiti’s relation to the United States at that time by asking complex questions and reaching nuanced insights that seem just as relevant and important with reference to today.” —Kate Ramsey, author of The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti
256 pp, 4 graphs, 5 tables • 978-0-8135-7119-5 Paperback • $27.95F Sale Price $19.57
LEADERSHIP FROM THE MARGINS
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MarK Schuller Foreword by Paul Farmer
256 pp • 5 photos, 3 figures 978-0-8135-5363-4 • Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97
WE ARE IN THIS DANCE TOGETHER
Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm Nancy Plankey-Videla
NANCY PLANKEY-VIDELA
We Are in This Dance Together
“Plankey-Videla’s cogent ethnography of labor relations and worker resistance at a cutting-edge apparel factory in Mexico reveals some of the most serious contradictions in our contemporary global labor market.” —Jane Collins, author of Threads: Gender, Labor & Power in the Global Economy GENDER, POWER, AND GLOBALIZATION AT A MEXICAN GARMENT FIRM
264 pp, 7 photos • 978-0-8135-5302-3 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.26
GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN HAITI Women’s Path from Victims to Agents Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet they also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visits Haiti to discover why these women act in such destructive ways and what might be done to stop this tragic cycle of violence. 192 pp • 978-0-8135-6314-5 • Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.26
LIVING WITH INSECURITY IN A BRAZILIAN FAVELA Urban Violence and Daily Life R. Ben Penglase
LIVING WITH INSECURITY IN A BRAZILIAN FAVELA URBAN VIOLENCE AND DAILY LIFE
R. BEN PENGLASE
“This is a vibrant and engaging book that provides valuable insights on violence, social exclusion, and daily life on the urban margins in Brazil and elsewhere.” —Daniel M. Goldstein, author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City 224 pp • 978-0-8135-6543-9 • Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.96
ATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
LATINIDAD: TRANSNATIONAL CU LATINASIAN CARTOGRAPHIES
CONSTITUTING CENTRAL AMERICAN–AMERICANS
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Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation NEW Maritza E. Cárdenas
“LatinAsian Cartographies is an excellent book that widens the scope of Asian American, Latin American, and American studies. Thananopavarn’s comparative study allows us to engage with and learn about the complexities of globalization, transnational migration, citizenship, and belonging.” —Rudy Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego
“Constituting Central American-Americans represents an important, well-theorized intervention in Latina/o Studies by challenging the erasure of Central Americans by their Latino counterparts and the broader mainstream culture in the United States.” —Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries
216 pp • 3 illustrations • 978-0-8135-8984-8 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
IN SEARCH OF THE MEXICAN BEVERLY HILLS Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles NEW Jerry González
198 pp • 9 figures • 978-0-8135-9282-4 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
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“Documents how Mexican-Americans came to be the majority population in the suburban San Gabriel Valley.” —Chronicle of Higher Education
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216 pp • 6 figures, 4 maps • 978-0-8135-8315-0 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
FROM THE EDGE
Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print Allison E. Fagan
Jerry González
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212 pp • 2 photos, 3 figures • 978-0-8135-8379-2 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87
DREAM NATION
Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence María Acosta Cruz “No other book weaves together so beautifully and completely the political, historical, social, economic, and cultural threads which make up the tapestry of Puerto Rican nationalism.” —Frederick Luis Aldama, author of A Concise History of Latino/a Literature 222 pp • 5 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6546-0 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.26
THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE AND THE CONVERSOS
Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico Marie-Theresa Hernández “Cogent, convincing, and full of interesting stories, this original work makes us reconsider the old boundaries opposing Christians and Jews in the Hispanic old and new worlds.” —Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania
HIDDEN CHICANO CINEMA
Film Dramas in the Borderlands A. Gabriel Meléndez “With clear and concise analysis, extensive archival work, and sound scholarship, Hidden Chicano Cinema makes a significant contribution to the field.” —María Herrera-Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara 288 pp • 13 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6106-6 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.96
Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique NEW T. Jackie Cuevas
PostBorder l andia
“Cuevas’s invigorating appraisal and persuasive readings of under-examined yet pivotal texts and writers, refreshing refusal to adhere to the sex/gender binary, and C hiC ana liter ature and stunning ability to link history with critical Gender Variant C ritique theory breathes new life into Chicano/a literary and queer studies.” —Richard T. Rodríguez, author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics T. Jackie Cuevas
“Fagan takes a novel approach to Chicana/o literature by examining the significance of its material features, such as revisions, collaborations, glossaries, translations, typography, editorial A L L I S O N E . FAG A N paratexts, and marginalia, and by raising intriguing questions about the role of audiences and publishing industries.” —Claudia Sadowski-Smith, author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries
276 pp • 14 photos • 978-0-8135-6568-2 Paperback • $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
POST-BORDERLANDIA
L IT E RAT U R E O F
P R I N T
188 pp • 3 illustrations • 978-0-8135-9452-1 Paperback • $26.95S Sale Price $18.87
THE RISE OF SPANISHLANGUAGE FILMMAKING
Out from Hollywood’s Shadow, 1929-1939 Lisa Jarvinen “Jarvinen effectively and meticulously undermines common assumptions about Spanish-language films and the transition to sound in this compellingly argued analysis of a largely overlooked body of Hollywood production.” —Colin Gunckel, University of Michigan 230 pp • 18 photos • 978-0-8135-5286-6 • Paperback $30.95S Sale Price $21.66
DANCE AND THE HOLLYWOOD LATINA Race, Sex, and Stardom Priscilla Peña Ovalle
“What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!” —Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Mount Holyoke College 194 pp • 26 illustrations • 978-0-8135-4881-4 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.97
DAY OF THE DEAD IN THE USA
The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon Regina M Marchi “Marchi provides a unique and valuable account of the rise of Day of the Dead celebrations in the US, demonstrating the complex dynamics of ethnic and cultural identity in the contemporary cultural economy, urban community, and media environment.” —Eric W. Rothenbuhler, author of Ritual Communication and co-editor of Media Anthropology 216 pp • 25 illustrations • 978-0-8135-4558-5 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.27
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ULTURES IN THE UNITED STATES OF FORESTS AND FIELDS
SOUTHWEST ASIA
“Sifuentez gives voice to the stories, struggles, and strengths of Mexican laborers in the fields of the Northwest, illuminating in engaging, human terms an important slice of history.” —Miriam Pawel, author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
“This book articulates a critical perspective on Chicana/o studies that is not only sorely needed, but that also points to the interethnic and transnational origins of the field as a productive trajectory forward.” —Maria Herrera Sobek, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest Mario Jimenez Sifuentez
The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue
186 pp • 11 photos • 978-0-8135-7689-3 Paperback $27.95S Sale Price $19.57
196 pp • 9 photos • 978-0-8135-7716-6 Paperback $29.95S Sale Price $20.26
TROUBLING NATIONHOOD IN U.S. LATINA LITERATURE
TROUBLING NATIONHOOD in U. S. Latina Literature
Explorations of Place and Belonging Maya Socolovsky
Explorations of Place and Belonging
Maya Socolovsky
“Socolovsky considers how Latina fiction disrupts notions about what constitutes the US nation and national identity [and is] useful in debates about immigration and anti-immigration rhetoric, which links the illegal presence of Latin Americans in the US to threats this foreign culture poses to what is truly ‘American.’” —Choice 256 pp • 978-0-8135-6117-2 • Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.26
BORDERLANDS SAINTS
“Addressing religion, spirituality and sanctity in Chicana/o culture, Borderlands Saints makes a significant contribution to a burgeoning area that demands critical attention.” —Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
Salvadoran Imaginaries Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
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DOMESTIC NEGOTIATIONS Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art Marci R. McMahon
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256 pp • 2 figures and 3 tables • 978-0-8135-6492-0 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.96
260 pp • 12 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6094-6 Paperback • $23.95S Sale Price $16.76
Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship Amalia Pallares
“This is an engaging, well researched, and thoughtfully organized book on an important topic—the transnational civic engagement of Mexican migrants and their organizations on both sides of the US-Mexico border.” —Michael Peter Smith, co-author of Citizenship Across Borders
264 pp • 31 photos, 3 maps • 978-0-8135-7075-4 Paperback • $31.95S Sale Price $22.36
on the Move
FAMILY ACTIVISM
From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement Xóchitl Bada
“A rich and impressive study of how Mexican film culture in Los Angeles responded to and shaped film industries of both the U.S. and Mexico.” —Jacqueline Stewart, author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
Zapotecs
“With depth and clarity, McMahon offers a highly valued analysis of Chicana and Mexicana women who negotiate the domesticated gendered body...an important and timely contribution to the field.” —Ellie D. Hernandez, University of California
215 pp • 2 photos • 978-0-8135-6461-6 Paperback • $28.95S Sale Price $20.26
Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II Colin Gunckel
ZAPOTECS ON THE MOVE
268 pp • 9 halftones, 1 map • 978-0-8135-6070-0 Paperback • $30.95S Sale Price $21.66
M
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256 pp • 21 photos, 3 maps, 5 tables • 978-0-8135-5284-2 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.26
Cultur a l, SoCia l, a nd PolitiCa l ProCeSSeS in tr a nSnationa l PerSPeCti ve
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SALVADORAN IMAGINARIES
MEXICAN HOMETOWN ASSOCIATIONS IN CHICAGOACÁN
“Guevarra’s fresh, exciting, and provocative analysis provides an extraordinary account of what it means to be a multiethnic American; a remarkable feat!” —Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans
“Cruz-Manjarrez documents important aspects of indigenous immigrant identity formation in Los Angeles and Yalálag, Oaxaca, particularly of immigrant youth, adding to our understanding of urban indigenous incorporation in the U.S..” —Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives
296 pp • 5 illustrations • 978-0-8135-6233-9 Paperback • $31.95S Sale Price $22.36
“Rivas examines transnational exchanges, profound and rapid social change, and maps a geography of marginalization in a nation without borders.” —Cecilia Menjívar, author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women’s Lives in Guatemala
Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.
Cultural, Social, and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez
Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture Desirée A. Martín
Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption Cecilia M. Rivas
BECOMING MEXIPINO
“Pallares illustrates how Latino activists frame the family to contest immigrants’ negative representation and to make counterclaims on behalf of unauthorized and mixed-status families.” —Pat Zavella, author of I’m Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty 192 pp • 13 photos, 1 figure • 978-0-8135-6456-2 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.26
DISENCHANTING CITIZENSHIP
Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging Luis F. B. Plascencia “Plascencia deepens and expands our understanding of citizenship and how its promises and limitations directly impact peoples’ lives.” —Latino Studies 266 pp • 5 tables • 978-0-8135-5280-4 Paperback • $29.95S Sale Price $20.96
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