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The Hold Life Has
Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Written by Catherine J. Allen
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95
This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses... Read more >
Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community
Written by Catherine J. Allen
Format: eBook, 312 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $21.95
This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bacalaitos and Fireworks
Contribution by Miguel Algarin and Lois Elaine Griffith
Photographed by Arlene Gottfried
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $39.95
New York City has been home to a Puerto Rican population since the mid-1900s, with the most noticeable migration boom beginning in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years they stamped the city with their culture, indelibly altering neighborhoods like the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and downtown Brooklyn with... Read more >
Contribution by Miguel Algarin and Lois Elaine Griffith
Photographed by Arlene Gottfried
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Price: $39.95
New York City has been home to a Puerto Rican population since the mid-1900s, with the most noticeable migration boom beginning in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years they stamped the city with their culture, indelibly altering neighborhoods like the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and downtown Brooklyn with... Read more >
Hearts and Hands
Creating Community in Violent Times
Written by Luis Rodriguez
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He... Read more >
Creating Community in Violent Times
Written by Luis Rodriguez
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
The Death of Josseline
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 13, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Death of Josseline
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Written by Margaret Regan
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $15.00
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Family Sentence
The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad
Written by Jeanine Cornillot
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic father-hero out... Read more >
The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad
Written by Jeanine Cornillot
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic father-hero out... Read more >
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When a Heart Turns Rock Solid
The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets
Written by Timothy Black
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $16.95
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.
At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are... Read more >
The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets
Written by Timothy Black
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: August 24, 2010
Price: $16.95
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.
At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are... Read more >
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eBook.
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When a Heart Turns Rock Solid
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Written by Timothy Black
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $14.99
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.
At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are... Read more >
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Written by Timothy Black
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 4, 2009
Price: $14.99
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
This provocative and compelling book examines how jobs, schools, the streets, and prisons have shaped the lives and choices of a generation of Puerto Rican youth at the turn of the twenty-first century.
At the center of this riveting account–based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study–are... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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It's Just Begun
The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ
Written by Ivan Sanchez and Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeno
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $22.95
It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop’s First Latino DJ is a gritty and gripping tale of one man’s struggles to not only survive, but to triumph over adversity and abuse that will make your blood run cold. By conquering unimaginable obstacles, Wiz offers inspiration to... Read more >
The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop's First Latino DJ
Written by Ivan Sanchez and Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeno
Format: Hardcover, 180 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $22.95
It’s Just Begun: The Epic Journey of DJ Disco Wiz, Hip Hop’s First Latino DJ is a gritty and gripping tale of one man’s struggles to not only survive, but to triumph over adversity and abuse that will make your blood run cold. By conquering unimaginable obstacles, Wiz offers inspiration to... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Heroes, Lovers, and Others
The Story of Latinos in Hollywood
Written by Clara Rodriguez
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2004
Price: $26.95
Heroes, Lovers, and Others tells the fascinating history of Latinos in film, from the birth of the movies to the present, through a series of stories about Hollywood’s most famous and enduring stars. The book features such Latino legends as Dolores del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Ramon Navarro, Desi Arnaz, Anthony Quinn... Read more >
The Story of Latinos in Hollywood
Written by Clara Rodriguez
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2004
Price: $26.95
Heroes, Lovers, and Others tells the fascinating history of Latinos in film, from the birth of the movies to the present, through a series of stories about Hollywood’s most famous and enduring stars. The book features such Latino legends as Dolores del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Ramon Navarro, Desi Arnaz, Anthony Quinn... Read more >
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