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Cuisine, Mexican-American
Sarah Portnoy
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Mexican-American Cuisine Introduction “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are,” quipped Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, author o...
de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés
Ilan Stavans, Katharine Correia
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Sor Juana Inés de la CruzIntroductionArguably the most important poet of the colonial period in Latin America, and perhaps of any time, Mexican poet a...
del Toro, Guillermo
Dolores Tierney
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
Guillermo del ToroIntroductionGuillermo del Toro (b. 1964) is an Oscar-winning Mexican director, screenwriter, producer, novelist, film scholar, curat...
Detention and Deportations
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Detention and DeportationsIntroductionGovernments have long relied on detention to enforce immigration laws. In recent years, this practice has become...
Díaz, Junot
Sarah Quesada
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Junot DíazIntroductionThe renowned Dominican American writer Junot Díaz (b. 1968) is a polymath of many talents: A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Mc...
Domestic Service, Latinas in
Teresa Carrillo
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Latinas in Domestic ServiceIntroductionThere are currently at least 53 million adult domestic workers worldwide, and another estimated 10.5 million ch...
Dominican Americans
Ramona Hernández, Sophia Monegro
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Dominican AmericansIntroductionMassive emigration from the Dominican Republic to the United States began in 1966. A large contingent of Dominicans lef...
Dominican Blackness
Sarah Aponte
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
Dominican BlacknessIntroductionDominicans come originally from the Dominican Republic, a country that shares with the Republic of Haiti the island of ...
Dominican Diaspora
Sarah Aponte
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Dominican DiasporaIntroductionThe paradoxical interdependence of US Dominicans and their fellow citizens in the Dominican Republic has elicited differ...
Dominican-American Literature
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Dominican American Literature Introduction Scholarship on the literary production of Dominicans in the United States has grown steadily since ...
Dominicans and Baseball
April Yoder, Rob Ruck
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Dominicans and BaseballIntroductionBaseball reflects the sacrifice, commitment, and determination that Dominicans displayed during foreign occupation ...
Don Quixote in English
William Childers
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Don Quixote in EnglishIntroductionAsked whether Don Quixote could become a bridge between North and South America, Jorge Luis Borges replied, “Yes, I ...
El Paso
Monica Perales, Sandra I. Enríquez
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
El PasoIntroductionEl Paso, Texas, is the epicenter of the largest international border metroplex in the Western Hemisphere. With a population of near...
Environmental Issues in Latinx Studies
Christina Holmes, Mayra Leon Coss
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Environmental Issues in Latinx StudiesIntroductionTo expand the lens of what is considered an environmental issue in Latinx studies, this overview inc...
Filipinos
Sony Coranez Bolton, Josen Diaz
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
FilipinosIntroduction“Filipino” refers to those who claim ethnonational ties to the Philippines. At the same time that the term assumes such an affili...
Film
Camilla Fojas
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Film Introduction Latina and Latino stars, filmmakers, characters, and storylines have been present in Hollywood and independent cinema from t...
Food Industry
Meredith Abarca, Joshua Lopez
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Food IndustryIntroductionFood’s complex roles in Latinas/os’ lives are such that we simultaneously need to explore the dynamics caused by the food ind...
Football
Jorge Iber
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
FootballIntroductionFrom the start of the field of sports history as a recognized academic endeavor in the early 1970s, one of the major areas of the ...
Foreign Policy and Latinos
Jeronimo Cortina
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Foreign Policy and LatinosIntroductionThe United States is a pluralist democracy in which freedom of speech and association are guaranteed for every m...
Gentrification
Nancy Raquel Mirabal
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
GentrificationIntroductionOver the last two decades research on gentrification has boomed. As major cities across the United States experience seismic...
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