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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...
Health, Latino
David E. Hayes-Bautista, Mithi del Rosario
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Latino HealthIntroductionLatinos are the fastest-growing population in the United States: the US Bureau of Census (2012) projects that the Latino popu...
Hemispheric Latinidad
Paloma Martinez-Cruz
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Hemispheric LatinidadIntroductionHemispheric Latinidad describes various aspects of cultural proximity across the diverse ethnic, national, and geopol...
Higher Education
Amaury Nora, Gloria Crisp, Nicole Alia Salis Reyes, Vincent D. Carales, Kenny Lopez, Kelly Alvarado
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Higher EducationIntroductionHispanics in the United States play an integral role in shaping American society. Currently, Latinos are the largest and y...
Hijuelos, Oscar
Gustavo Pérez-Firmat
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Oscar HijuelosIntroductionOne of the best-known and most successful Latino writers, Oscar Hijuelos (b. 1951–d. 2013) was the first writer of Hispanic ...
Houston
Tatcho Mindiola
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Houston Introduction The presence of Mexicans in Houston is a 20th-century phenomenon. Thus, unlike other Texas cities like El Paso and San An...
Huerta, Dolores
Steven W. Bender
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Dolores HuertaIntroductionRecipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 and a cofounder with César Chávez of the United Farm Workers (UFW) un...
Illinois
Maria Luna-Duarte, Pamela Anne Quiroz
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
IllinoisIntroductionThe state of Illinois represents a geographic, social, and political intersection of multiple Latino ethnic groups whose pathways ...
Immigration to the United States
Greta A. Gilbertson, Mary G. Powers
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Immigration to the United States Introduction Major increases in the numbers of global immigrants over the last half-century have resulted in ...
Indigeneity
Arturo Aldama, Clint Carroll, Natasha Myhal, Luz Ruiz, Maria Ruiz-Martinez
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
IndigeneityIntroductionIssues of indigeneity, along with mestizaje—racial and cultural mixtures of African, indigenous, and Spanish ancestries and cul...
Latin Jazz
Alex W. Rodriguez, Ilan Stavans
Subject: Latino Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Latin Jazz Introduction Sounding itself out in the diverse and resonant spaces between Afro-diasporic musical traditions across the Americas, ...
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