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Bilingual Education
Luz Y. Herrera, Carla España, Ofelia García
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Bilingual EducationIntroduction“Bilingual education” refers to the use of two languages in education for different purposes. In the United States, bil...
Body, The
Juan Portillo-Soto, Gloria González-López
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
The BodyIntroductionResearch on the body and theories of embodiment encompass an emerging field of study that has gained traction in the social scienc...
Borderlands
Gilberto Rosas
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Borderlands Introduction Paradoxically cast as material and imaginary; utopic and dystopic; militarized and peaceful; masculine and feminine; ...
Boxing
Troy Rondinone
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
BoxingIntroductionLatino pugilists have long participated in the development of the “sweet science” of professional boxing. Beginning at the close of ...
Bracero Program
Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Bracero Program Introduction On the request of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the US federal government engaged in negotiations domestic...
Bugalú
Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
BugalúIntroductionCuban music has had a strong presence in American culture since the 1930s, when the rumba craze swept the country. In the 1950s, oth...
Canada, Latino Literature in
Luis Loya García
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Latino Literature in CanadaIntroductionContact between Canada and the Hispanic world dates back to the era of colonization with the Spanish exploratio...
Canada, Latinos in
Luis Loya García
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Latinos in Canada Introduction Latino Canadian studies is a relatively young field. US Latinos and Latino Canadians hardly know each other. Wh...
Catholicism
Timothy Matovina, Michael Anthony Abril
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Catholicism Introduction Spanish-speaking Catholics have lived in what is now the United States for twice as long as the nation has existed. U...
Chávez, César
Steven W. Bender
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
César ChávezIntroductionCésar Chávez (b. 1927–d. 1993) is recognized as an American hero, as evidenced by an official state holiday in California, the...
Chicana/o Ethnography
Pablo Gonzalez, Xóchitl Chávez
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Chicana/o EthnographyIntroductionChicana/o ethnography is a subfield of Chicana/o anthropology and sociocultural anthropology. There are two ways of l...
Chicano Literature
Rafael C. Castillo
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Chicano LiteratureIntroductionChicano literature began as a critical and creative response to discrimination and prejudice that affected Mexicans who ...
Chicano Movement
Ignacio Garcia
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Chicano MovementIntroductionThe Chicano movement was a social, cultural and economic challenge to the status quo that was long in the making, with som...
Chicano Studies
Nicole Guidotti-Hernández
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Chicano StudiesIntroductionRadicalized Mexican Americans, who called themselves Chicano/a, began a social protest movement in the 1960s and 1970s, eve...
Child Language Acquisition
Alison Sparks, Diana Leyva
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Child Language Acquisition Introduction The study of language acquisition in children growing up in Latino families is a burgeoning field of r...
Cinco de Mayo
David E. Hayes-Bautista
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Cinco De Mayo Introduction A Mexico City journalist posted to Los Angeles wrote in 1980, “Cinco de Mayo is not a very important holiday in Mex...
Colombian-Americans
Stella Rouse
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Colombian-AmericansIntroductionColombian-Americans are people of Colombian descent (both immigrants and native born) who reside in the United States. ...
Comics
Frederick Luis Aldama
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Comics Introduction In Mexico and other Latin American countries, reading comic books and comic strips has long been an accepted form of ent...
Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Miriam Jiménez
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Congressional Hispanic CaucusIntroductionThe Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) is a Congressional Member Organization, namely a coalition of members...
Connecticut
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez, Anne Gebelein, Charlie Fuentes, Matthew Perse
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
ConnecticutIntroductionNew England, often imagined as the land of steady habits and racial homogeneity, has never lived up to this mythical narrative....
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