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"In a new anthology from the editors of Las Christmas, some of our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers. Las Mamis brings to life fourteen remarkable women in sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious stories about the ups and downs of families from Kansas to Colombia and Boston to Mexico City."--Jacket.
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The story of a wealthy land-owning ranchero family named Olivares in South Texas at the turn of the 20th century, told as a series of vignettes held together by a loose narrative. The novel deals with the complex tensions between nationalities and races in the border country. The land, deeded to the Olivares family in 1764 by Revilla Gigedo, the Viceroy of New Spain, now technically belongs to America because of the U.S.-Mexico War. The rancheros...
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"This book chronicles an ethnographic team's involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City. Jagna Sharff focuses on a group of families who live within a radius of a few blocks of her storefront office, especially the children who come first to interact with the team. She contrasts her team's initial observations of how people grapple with daily life with the residents' expressed...
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The author presents a critique of archetypal roles of Latino males including the womanizer, the macho, and the patriarch. As an alternative to these outdated and restrictive ways of living, he describes how Latino males are able to radically redefine themselves and create new transformational archetypes. He goes on to discuss how Latino men can become agents of transformation in the family and the larger world.
9) In my family
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The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in an Hispanic community in Texas.
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Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles--and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In "Kids at work", Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. Drawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three...
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