New and Published Books
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Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990–2000
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high...
Published November 10th 2014 by Routledge
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Pregones Theatre
A Theatre for Social Change in the South Bronx
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Published August 12th 2014 by Routledge
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The Quest for Tejano Identity in San Antonio, Texas, 1913-2000
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
The Quest for Tejano Identity was written as a study of Mexican American consciousness, and a history of the assumptions and intellectual responses of Mexican Americans in south Texas. The work uses history to inquire why different ethnic groups think, act and speak as they do as they encounter...
Published October 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Latino-Anglo Bargaining
Culture, Structure and Choice in Court Mediation
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
This book shows the mechanisms by which cultural differences reinforce structural privilege and disadvantage in the informal process of mediated negotiation. Are all people equally likely to pursue their own material self-interest in the negotiation process used in small claims mediation? Did...
Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Inviting Latino Voters
Party Messages and Latino Party Identification
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Latino's increasing numbers and their uncertain voting behaviors have enticed Democrats and Republicans to actively court this demographic group, seeking their partisan identification. Through in-depth interviews with campaign strategists, a quantitative analysis of Latino-oriented television...
Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
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The Promised Land?
The Lives and Voices of Hispanic Immigrants in the New South
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Through analysis of in-depth interviews with seventy-three Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a rare in-depth look at the views and circumstances of immigrants in a new receiving area. It provides an examination of the new migration trend including an analysis of...
Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Skin Color and Identity Formation
Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in...
Published July 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Caribbean Spanish in the Metropolis
Spanish Language among Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans in the New York City Area
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
This study focuses on first- and second-generation Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans living in the New York City area. In particular, the author creates a sociolinguistic profile of these cohorts and evaluates their attitudes towards Spanish and English, their use of these languages and their...
Published July 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualites
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities is an interdisciplinary project that weaves ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material culture to study the intersection of gayness with Latinidad....
Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature
Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950
Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years...
Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
Forthcoming Books
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Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination: Literature of the Borderlands
To Be Published July 7th 2015