Latino/a Studies

Warring Genealogies

Race, Kinship, and the Korean War

Joo Ok Kim

Examines the racial legacies of the Korean War through Chicano/a cultural production and U.S. archives of white supremacy

184 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 halftones

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Migration and Mortality

Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas

Edited by Jamie Longazel and Miranda Cady Hallett

Documents and denounces the violent impacts of restrictive migration policies in the Americas, linking this institutional violence to broader forces of racial capitalism

318 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 tables, 2 figures, 1 halftone

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Revolution Around the Corner

Voices from the Puerto Rican Socialist Party in the United States

Edited by José E. Velázquez, Carmen V. Rivera, and Andrés Torres

The first book-length story of the radical social movement, the Puerto Rican Socialist Party

408 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 figures, 23 halftones

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Latinx Environmentalisms

Place, Justice, and the Decolonial

Edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray

Putting the environmental humanities into dialogue with Latinx literary and cultural studies

340 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 halftones

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Daily Labors

Marketing Identity and Bodies on a New York City Street Corner

Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky

Examining the vulnerabilities, discrimination, and exploitation—as well as the sense of belonging and community—that day laborers experience on an NYC street corner

212 pages | 6 x 9

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Not from Here, Not from There/No Soy de Aquí ni de Allá

The Autobiography of Nelson A. Díaz

Nelson A. Díaz

A lively autobiography by a community activist, judge, and public advocate who blazed a trail for Latinos in Philadelphia

280 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 figure, 19 halftones

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Latino Mayors

Political Change in the Postindustrial City

Edited by Marion Orr and Domingo Morel

The first book to examine the rise of Latino mayors in the United States

310 pages | 6 x 9 | 32 tables, 9 line drawings, 2 maps

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Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants

Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security

Anna Sampaio

A comprehensive analysis of changes in immigration policy, politics, and enforcement since 9/11

236 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table, 1 halftone

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The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano

A landmark history of the New York Young Lords, and what their activism tells us about contemporary Latino/a politics

248 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 figures, 6 halftones

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Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood

Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Tarry Hum

How immigrants are reinventing Sunset Park, forming new multi-racial alliances, and reshaping its community

300 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 tables, 7 halftones, 1 maps

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Celebrating Debutantes and Quinceañeras

Coming of Age in American Ethnic Communities

Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez

How young women's coming of age rites cement community relations and reinforce ethnic identity

226 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 tables, 4 figures

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200 Years of Latino History in Philadelphia

Hernán Guaracao, and David Cruz

A twentieth anniversary celebration of Al Dìa and of two centuries of Latino life in Philadelphia

200 pages | 8.5 x 11

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Espejos y ventanas (Mirrors and Windows)

historias orales de trabajadores agricolos y sus familias (Oral Histories of Mexican Farmworkers and the Families)

Mark Lyons

Oral histories of Mexican farmworkers in the Philadelphia region

318 pages | 6 x 9 | 89 halftones

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Mexican Voices of the Border Region

Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar Fernando Contreras Montellano

How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side

238 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 halftones

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Latino Lives in America

Making It Home

John A. Garcia, Gary M Segura, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and Luis Fraga

A nuanced and insightful assessment of Latino life in America

224 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 28 tables, 15 halftones

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