Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and a New Yorker best book of 2024, a “startling glimpse into the meatpacking industry’s abuse of undocumented and incarcerated workers” (The New York Times Book Review) and thos...Loe edasi...
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, a moment of great social, political, and cultural unrest that would lead to the...Loe edasi...
Through an interdisciplinary approach, this collection delves into the interplay between modernity and sacred traditions in contemporary Latin America as represented in its literature, drawing on diverse scholarly and theoretical perspectives. ...Loe edasi...
Lessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relationsWhen Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816554140)
In the remote mountains of Oaxaca, the Beatniks have arrived. María Sabina, the renowned Mazatec healer, spends her days in the small town of Huautla de Jimé nez selling produce at the market and foraging under the new moon for the sacred...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487509231)
Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism by gender studies and Latin Americanist scholar Vanesa Miseres focuses on the overlooked voices of women who wrote about and participated in Latin American and global wars from the 1...Loe edasi...
Cordelia E. Barrera, María Eugenia Guerra, Shelley Armitage, Kimberly Blaeser, Norma E. Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Anel I. Flores, Christine Granados, Stephanie Elizondo Griest...
Sari: Wittliff Collections Literary Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648433733)
In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is “a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature...Loe edasi...
Brazilian aviation law is often a mystery for people outside Brazil. Despite being based on German and Italian law, Brazilian law does not resemble any other legal system; for instance, it took nearly a decade and the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529236057)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, this book analyses how Indigenous peasant women who have experienced reproductive violence describe the harms of forced sterilization and the complexities of using human and reproductive rights frameworks t...Loe edasi...
Disaster Tourism is a debut poetry collection that offers glimpses of disasters at once personal and global. The term disaster tourism refers to the offensive practice of visiting sights after a cataclysm. Steeped in violence, injustice, immigrati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479832484)
Traces the history of the Claretian Missionaries and their far-reaching influence on Latino CatholicsPioneers of Latino Ministry tells the story of the Claretian Missionaries, a male Catholic congregation, dedicated to Latin...Loe edasi...
A searing exploration of maternal absence, generational abandonment and survival set against the backdrop of Trinidad’s beauty and brutality, where one woman confronts violence, inheritance and the cost of escaping a home that never truly held her. O...Loe edasi...
In this book, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco provides a new perspective on the political development of an ethnic community that has been neglected in the studies of Latinx political development and debunks theories about immigrant communities represent...Loe edasi...
One of Literary Hubs most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816554560)
Scarred Landscapes is a groundbreaking exploration of the rich and complex works of Caribbean Latinx artists. This book documents the work of ten influential artists of Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican descent, based in New York City from th...Loe edasi...
This book examines how national and international regional courts in Europe and Latin America address justice for serious human rights violations, comparing approaches across these distinct regions. It analyzes judicial responses to gross violatio...Loe edasi...
