Wednesday, September 30, 2009

News and Updates Sept. 30, 2009

Hi folks,

Several updates, news and announcements.

  • I will be away from Friday, Oct. 2nd to Tuesday, Oct. 13th on my trip to LIBER (Spain Books Fair). I will be available to teach a library instruction class and do student consultations after Oct. 14th.
  • The Library is celebrating Banned Book Week: This is an annual celebration that "highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted banning of books across the United States." We created a library guide, with great information on titles banned in the US past and present, and I created a page that shed light about banned books around the world. Please let your students know about this resources. In addition we have an exhibit at the library in the Plaza Level that we encourage student and faculty to visit.
  • We will have readings, during the week, of previous or current banned books. I will be reading today at 3:30pm excepts from The Open Veins of Latin American by Eduardo Galeano. Hope to see you there!
Talking about Subject Library Guides, I want to let you know about our latest guides that we feel are really useful to get access quickly to both library and free online sources.

  • eReference Books in the Social Sciences: This guide is a discipline-based list of electronic reference titles selected from the thousands of eBooks licensed by the UConn Libraries. Use the subject tabs above to browse online encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference materials selected by social science library liaisons. I created a tab that include the following subjects: Latin American Studies and two sub-tabs (you will see a small down arrow to denote a drop down menu) for Hispanics/Latinos in the US and Spanish.
  • Social Science Statistics: This subject guide provide sources of statistical information in both licensed library databases and on the internet, selected by social science library liaisons. I created one for Latin American Studies, but there are many other that will be useful if you want to find both tables and data on social science subjects.
Hope you enjoy the information and find it useful. If you have find other resources that you think we should add to the guide, please let me know.

Monday, August 31, 2009

New Acquisitions in HOMER August 31, 2009 Part 2

Hi folks,

Here is the second part list of books acquired by the library organized by country.
Enjoy,
Marisol

Argentina
  • Auyero, Javier and Débora Alejandra Swistun. 2009. Flammable : Environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Bonner, Michelle D. 2007. Sustaining human rights : Women and Argentine human rights organizations. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Burucúa, Constanza. 2009; 2008. Confronting the 'dirty war' in Argentine cinema, 1983-1993 : Memory and gender in historical representations. Colección Támesis. Serie A, monografías. Vol. 271. Woodbridge; Rochester, NY: Tamesis; Boydell & Brewer.
  • DuBois, Lindsay. 2005. The politics of the past in an Argentine working-class neighborhood. Anthropological horizons. Vol. 29. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
Brazil
  • Barbosa, Rosana. 2009. Immigration and xenophobia : Portuguese immigrants in early 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.
  • Davis, Darién J. 2008. White face, black mask: Africaneity and the early social history of popular music in Brazil. Black American and diasporic studies series. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.
  • Kingstone, Peter R. and Timothy J. Power. 2008. Democratic Brazil revisited. Pitt Latin American series. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Nunn, Amy. 2009. The politics and history of AIDS treatment in Brazil. New York: Springer.
  • Seigel, Micol. 2009. Uneven encounters : Making race and nation in Brazil and the United States. American encounters/global interactions. Durham: Duke University Press.
Chile
  • Policzer, Pablo and Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies. 2009. The rise and fall of repression in Chile. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press.
Colombia
  • Holmes, Jennifer S., Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres, and Kevin M. Curtin. 2008. Guns, drugs, and development in Colombia. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Christman, Daniel W., John G. Heimann, Julia Sweig, and Center for Preventive Action. 2004. Andes 2020: A New Strategy for the Challenges of Colombia and the Region. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press.

Cuba
  • Erlich, Reese W. 2009. Dateline Havana: The real story of U.S. policy and the future of Cuba. Sausalito, CA: PoliPoint Press : Distributed by Ingram Publisher Services.
  • Gracia, Jorge J. E. 2009. Images of thought : Philosophical interpretations of Carlos Estévez's art. SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture. Albany: SUNY Press.
  • Miller, Ivor. 2009. Voice of the leopard : African secret societies and Cuba. Caribbean studies series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
  • Schoultz, Lars. 2009. That infernal little Cuban republic : The United States and the Cuban revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Taylor, Henry Louis. 2009. Inside el barrio : A bottom-up view of neighborhood life in Castro’s Cuba. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press.
  • Thomas, Susan. 2008. Cuban Zarzuela : Performing race and gender on Havana’s lyric stage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Dominican Republic
  • Krohn-Hansen, Christian. 2009. Political authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Wells, Allen. 2009. Tropical Zion : General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa. American encounters/global interactions. Durham: Duke University Press.
Ecuador
  • Torre, Carlos de la and Steve Striffler. 2008. The Ecuador reader : History, culture, politics. Latin America readers. Durham: Duke University Press.
Guatemala
  • Goldin, Liliana R. 2009. Global Maya : Work and ideology in rural Guatemala. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Guyana
  • Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald. 2009. Caribbean visionary: A.R.F. Webber and the making of the Guyanese nation. Caribbean studies series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Haiti
  • Munro, Martin and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. 2008. Echoes of the Haitian revolution, 1804-2004. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
Jamaica
  • Harriott, Anthony. 2008. Organized crime and politics in Jamaica : Breaking the nexus. Jamaica: Canoe Press.
Mexico
  • Barmeyer, Niels. 2009. Developing Zapatista autonomy : Conflict and NGO involvement in rebel Chiapas. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
  • Buchenau, Jürgen and William H. Beezley. 2009. State governors in the Mexican revolution, 1910-1952 : Portraits in conflict, courage, and corruption. Latin American silhouettes. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Campbell, Bruce. 2009. Viva la historieta! : Mexican comics, NAFTA, and the politics of globalization. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
  • Carrasco, David and Scott Sessions. 2007. Cave, city, and eagle's nest: An interpretive journey through the mapa de Cuauhtinchan no. 2. Albuquerque; Cambridge, MA: University of New Mexico Press; Published in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
  • Contreras, Joseph. 2009. In the shadow of the giant: The Americanization of modern Mexico [Tan lejos de Dios.]. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
  • Drache, Daniel. 2008. Big picture realities: Canada and Mexico at the crossroads. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press.
  • Fitzgerald, David. 2009. A nation of emigrants : How Mexico manages its migration. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • López Casillas, Mercurio and Gregory Dechant. 2008. La muerte en el impreso mexicano = images of death in Mexican prints. Biblioteca de ilustradores mexicanos. Vol. 10. México: Editorial RM.
  • Rivera, Juan M., Scott Whiteford, and Manuel Chávez Márquez. 2009. NAFTA and the campesinos : The impact of NAFTA on small-scale agricultural producers in Mexico and the prospects for change. Scranton: University of Scranton Press.
  • Uribe, Alvaro and Olivia E. Sears. 2009. Best of contemporary Mexican fiction. Latin American literature series. 1 US ed. Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press.
Perú
  • Leinaweaver, Jessaca B. 2008. The circulation of children : Kinship, adoption, and morality in Andean Peru. Latin America otherwise. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Wright, Kenneth R., Gordon Francis McEwan, and Ruth M. Wright. 2006. Tipon : Water engineering masterpiece of the Inca empire. Reston, Va.: American Society of Civil Engineers.
Puerto Rico
  • Galván, Javier A. 2009. Culture and customs of Puerto Rico. Culture and customs of Latin America and the Caribbean. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
  • García-Colón, Ismael. 2009. Land reform in Puerto Rico : Modernizing the colonial state, 1941-1969. New directions in Puerto Rican studies. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Venezuela
  • Langley, Lester D. 2009. Simón Bolívar: Venezuelan rebel, American revolutionary. Latin American silhouettes. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Stoneman, Rod. 2008. Chávez : The revolution will not be televised : A case study of politics and the media. Nonfictions. London ; New York: Wallflower.

New Acquisitions in HOMER August 31, 2009 Part 1

Hi folks,

Here is the most recent list of books published in English and Spanish acquired by the library. I have divided the list in two 1) Broader topics such as Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latino Studies, History, Diaspora, etc. 2) List of books country by country from the Americas.

In other news, we acquired recently this microfilm set, Papers of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee 1959-1970. This set is located in Level 3, with the other microfilms set that the library owns. In other good news, we acquired a brand new digital microfilm scanner/reader--which not only let you see the microfilm reader, but also let you scan the film and email it or print it for you. The printer is now connected to the main printers in the library and you can use your Husky One Card to pay for your print out, or you can scan and email your scan for free. There is a learning curve to learn to use this scanner, so feel free to contact any of the student staff at the Learning Commons Desk to ask to be trained to use the scanner,
http://learningcommons.uconn.edu/services/itshelpdesk.htm

Enjoy the list!
Marisol

Spanish Literature/Society/Teaching
  • Arango L., Manuel Antonio. 2008. Tema y estructura en el teatro del siglo XVI y XVII en hispanoamericana y España: Fernán González de eslava, sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Tirso de Molina, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca y Juan Ruíz de Alarcón. Caribbean studies. Vol. 21. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Balestra, Alejandra, Glenn A. Martínez, and María Irene Moyna. 2008. Recovering the U.S. Hispanic linguistic heritage : Sociohistorical approaches to Spanish in the United States. Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press.
  • Bills, Garland D. and Neddy A. Vigil. 2008. The Spanish language of new Mexico and southern Colorado : A linguistic atlas. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico.
  • Boyle, Catherine M., David Johnston, and Janet Morris. 2007. The Spanish Golden Age in English : Perspectives on performance. London: Oberon Books.
  • Caba, Maria Yaquelin. 2008. Isabel la Católica en la producción teatral española del siglo XVII. Colección Támesis. Vol. 256. London: Tamesis.
  • Davis, Kathleen E. 2004. The latest style: The fashion writing of Blanca Valmont and economies of domesticity. La casa de la riqueza. Vol. 3. Frankfurt am Main; Princeton, N.J.: Vervuert; Markus Wiener Publishers. [Note from reviewer Lisa Sirwillo—Standford University: …[Kathleen E.] “Davis analyzes the "lifestyle" and fashion articles by columnist Blanca Valmont published between 1888 to 1899 in La última moda. The breadth of information covered is impressive and Davis offers keen insights into the ways that Spanish female readers were informed about a myriad of political, social and cultural events of the fin de siglo through the prism of fashion. Blanca Valmont addressed the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Panama Canal, stock market fluctuations, positivism, feminism and women's property rights, in addition to topics more immediately germane to domesticity, such as children's education.” For the full review, visit, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/arizona_journal_of_hispanic_cultural_studies/v010/10.1surwillo.html
  • Erickson, Daniel. 2009. Ghosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Herbrechter, Stefan and Ivan Callus. 2009. Cy-Borges : Memories of the posthuman in the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
  • Lewis, Elizabeth Franklin. 2004. Women writers in the Spanish Enlightenment : The pursuit of happiness. Women and gender in the early modern world. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Pub.
  • Rivera Ayala, Sergio. 2009. El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos: Espacio, cuerpo y poder. Colección Támesis. Serie A: Monografías. Vol. 270. Woodbridge; Rochester, NY: Tamesis.
  • Taylor, Scott K. 2008. Honor and violence in Golden Age Spain. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Films
  • Anonymous 2006. Vihdeo America: An Anthology of 10 Years of HIV TV Spots in the Americas. Directed by Pan American Health Organization. Washington: Pan American Health Organization. VIHdeo America is an initiative of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to disseminate 198 TV spots about HIV created and produced in 24 countries of the Americas between 1995 and 2005.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies (General)
  • Benhabib, Seyla and Judith Resnik. 2009. Migrations and mobilities : Citizenship, borders, and gender. New York: New York University Press.
  • Canino, María Josefa and Silvio Torres-Saillant. 2004. The challenges of public higher education in the Hispanic Caribbean. Princeton, NJ: M. Wiener Publishers.
  • Carey, Sabine C. 2009. Protest, repression and political regimes: An empirical analysis of Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Security and governance series. London; New York: Routledge.
  • Casanova, Lourdes. 2009. Global Latinas: Latin America’s emerging multinationals. INSEAD business press series. Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Casey, Michael. 2009. Che's afterlife: The legacy of an image. New York: Vintage Books.
  • Cervantes-Rodriguez, Margarita, Ramón Grosfoguel, and Eric Mielants. 2009. Caribbean migration to western Europe and the United States: Essays on incorporation, identity, and citizenship. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Crandall, Russell. 2008. The United States and Latin America after the cold war. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • de Barros, Ricardo Paes and World Bank. 2009. Measuring inequality of opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Latin American development forum series. Washington DC; New York: World Bank; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Deena, Seodial F. H. 2009. Situating Caribbean literature and criticism in multicultural and postcolonial studies. Caribbean studies. Vol. 11. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Drake, Paul W. 2009. Between tyranny and anarchy: A history of democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006. Social science history. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
  • Geiger, Danilo. 2008. Frontier encounters : Indigenous communities and settlers in Asia and Latin America. IWGIA document. Vol. 120. Copenhagen; Bern, Switzerland: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; Swiss National Centre of Compentence in Research North-South.
  • Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. 2009. Shades of difference : Why skin color matters. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. [Note from publisher: Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this insightful collection looks at how skin color affects people's opportunities in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and North America.]
  • Gose, Peter. 2008. Invaders as ancestors : On the intercultural making and unmaking of Spanish colonialism in the Andes. Anthropological horizons. Vol. 36. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.
  • Greene, Julie. 2009. The canal builders : Making America’s empire at the Panama Canal. The penguin history of American life. New York: Penguin Press.
  • Henke, Holger and Karl-Heinz Magister. 2008. Constructing vernacular culture in the Trans-Caribbean. Caribbean studies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
  • Jackson, Naomi M. and Toni Samantha Phim. 2008. Dance, human rights, and social justice : Dignity in motion. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press.
  • Jones, Peris. 2009. AIDS treatment and human rights in context. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lederman, Daniel, M. Olarreaga, and Guillermo Perry. 2009. China's and India’s challenge to Latin America : Opportunity or threat?. Latin American development forum series. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
  • May, Stephen. 2008. Language and minority rights : Ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language. New York: Routledge.
  • McPherson, Alan L. 2006. Anti-Americanism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Explorations in culture and international history. Vol. 3. New York: Berghahn Books.
  • Orazem, Peter F., Guilherme Luís Sedlacek, and Zafiris Tzannatos. 2009. Child labor and education in Latin America : An economic perspective. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Roberts, Dorothy E. 2009. Sex, power & taboo : Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and beyond. Kingston ; Miami: Ian Randle Publishers.
  • Torre, Augusto de la, Pablo Fajnzylber, and John D. Nash. 2009. Low carbon, high growth: Latin American responses to climate change: An overview. World bank Latin American and Caribbean studies. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
  • Yaffé, Helen. 2009. 'Che' Guevara : The economics of revolution. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Latin American and Caribbean History and Issues
  • Hanke, Lewis and Jane M. Rausch. 2006. People and issues in Latin American history. From independence to the present : Sources and interpretations. 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers.
  • ———. 2006. People and issues in Latin American history. the colonial experience : Sources and interpretations. 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers.
  • Marrero-Fente, Raúl. 2008. Epic, empire, and community in the Atlantic world : Silvestre de Balboa's espejo de paciencia. The bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
  • McCaffrey, James M. 2009. Inside the Spanish-American war : A history based on first-person accounts. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.
  • Reid, Basil A. 2009. Myths and realities of Caribbean history. Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
  • Schoonover, Thomas David. 2003. Uncle Sam’s war of 1898 and the origins of globalization. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
  • Stagg, J. C. A. 2009. Borderlines in borderlands : James Madison and the Spanish-American frontier, 1776-1821. [The Lamar series in western history]. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Voigt, Lisa and Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 2009. Writing captivity in the early modern Atlantic : Circulations of knowledge and authority in the Iberian and English Imperial worlds. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press.
  • Wey Gómez, Nicolás. 2008. The tropics of Empire : Why Columbus sailed south to the Indies. Transformations. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Wood, James A. and John Charles Chasteen. 2009. Problems in modern Latin American history : Sources and interpretations. Latin American silhouettes. 3rd ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Indigenous Issues
  • Lucero, Jose Antonio. 2008. Struggles of voice : The politics of indigenous representation in the Andes. Pitt Latin American series. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Maybury-Lewis, David, Theodore Macdonald, Biorn Maybury-Lewis, and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. 2009. Manifest destinies and indigenous peoples. The David Rockefeller center series on Latin American studies, Harvard university. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies ; distributed by Harvard University Press.
Diasporas/transnational Studies
  • Ben-Ur, Aviva. 2009. Sephardic Jews in America : A diasporic history. New York: New York University Press.
  • Afolabi, Niyi. 2009. Afro-Brazilians : Cultural production in a racial democracy. Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
  • Charters, Samuel Barclay. 2009. A language of song: Journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
  • Foster, David William. 2009. Latin American Jewish cultural production. Hispanic issues. 1st ed. Vol. 36. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press.
  • García Triana, Mauro and Pedro Eng Herrera. 2009. The Chinese in Cuba, 1847-now. Asia world. Lanham: Lexington Books.
  • Jackson, Richard L. 1988. Black literature and humanism in Latin America. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
  • Marable, Manning and Vanessa Agard-Jones. 2008. Transnational blackness : Navigating the global color line. The critical black studies series. 1st ed. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Roberts, Nicole. 2008. Main themes in twentieth-century Afro-Hispanic Caribbean poetry : A literary sociology. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.
  • Scully, Pamela and Diana Paton. 2005. Gender and slave emancipation in the Atlantic world. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Yun, Lisa. 2008. The coolie speaks : Chinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba. Asian American history and culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Latin American Literature in translation
  • Parra, Nicanor and Dave Oliphant. 2009. After-dinner declarations [Discursos de sobremesa.]. Austin, Tex.: Host Publications.
Latinos in the US/Immigrants Issues/Border Issues
  • Carey, David and Robert Atkinson. 2009. Latino voices in New England. Albany: Excelsior Editions.
  • Cisneros, Henry and John Rosales. 2009. Latinos and the nation's future. Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press.
  • Cobas, José A., Jorge Duany, and Joe R. Feagin. 2009. How the United States racializes Latinos: White hegemony and its consequences. Boulder: Paradigm.
  • Dalla, Rochelle L. 2009. Strengths and challenges of new immigrant families: Implications for research, education, policy, and service. Lanham: Lexington Books.
  • Flores, Juan. 2005; 1997. Puerto Rican arrival in New York : Narratives of the migration, 1920-1950. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers.
  • Foner, Nancy. 2009. Across generations : Immigrant families in America. New York: New York University Press.
  • García Coll, Cynthia T. and Amy Kerivan Marks. 2009. Immigrant stories : Ethnicity and academics in middle childhood. Child development in cultural context. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • García, Ignacio M. 2009. White but not equal : Mexican Americans, jury discrimination, and the Supreme Court. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Hron, Madelaine. 2009. Translating pain : Immigrant suffering in literature and culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Junn, Jane and Kerry Lee Haynie. 2008. New race politics in America : Understanding minority and immigrant politics. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Kohnert, Kathryn. 2008. Language disorders in bilingual children and adults. San Diego, CA: Plural Pub.
  • LaSpina, James Andrew. 2009. California in a time of excellence : School reform at the crossroads of the American dream. Albany: SUNY Press.
  • Leadbeater, Bonnie J. Ross and Niobe Way. 2007. Urban girls revisited : Building strengths. New York: New York University Press.
  • Mintz, Steven. 2009. Mexican American voices : A documentary reader. Uncovering the past. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Montiel, Miguel, Tomás Atencio, and E. A. Mares. 2009. Resolana : Emerging Chicano dialogues on community and globalization. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Morín, José Luis. 2009. Latino/a rights and justice in the United States : Perspectives and approaches. 2nd ed. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press.
  • Navarro, Armando. 2009. The immigration crisis : Nativism, armed vigilantism, and the rise of a countervailing movement. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
  • Newton, Lina. 2008. Illegal, alien, or immigrant : The politics of immigration reform. New York: New York University Press.
  • Overmyer-Velázquez, Mark. 2008. Latino America : A state-by-state encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
  • Ramírez, Catherine Sue. 2009. The woman in the zoot suit : Gender, nationalism, and the cultural politics of memory. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Ruíz, Vicki and Ellen Carol DuBois. 2008. Unequal sisters : An inclusive reader in U.S. women's history. 4th ed. New York: Routledge.
  • Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín. 2008. Cracks in the pavement : Social change and resilience in poor neighborhoods. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Sidanius, Jim. 2008. The diversity challenge : Social identity and intergroup relations on the college campus. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
  • Teixeira, Ruy A. 2008. Red, blue, and purple America : The future of election demographics. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
  • Williams, Philip J., Timothy J. Steigenga, and Manuel A. Vásquez. 2009. A place to be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican immigrants in Florida’s new destinations. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
  • Zamora, Emilio. 2009. Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas : Mexican workers and job politics during world war II. Rio Grande/Río Bravo. 1st ed. Vol. 15. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Latinos in the US/Literature/Art/Music
  • Blum, Liliana V. and Toshiya Kamei. 2008. The curse of eve and other stories. [short stories] Austin, TX: Host Publications.
  • Clark, Walter Aaron. 2002. From Tejano to Tango: Latin American popular music. New York: Routledge.
  • Davalos, Karen Mary and University of California, Los Angeles. Chicano Studies Research Center. 2008. Yolanda M. López. A Ver: Revisioning art history. Vol. 2. Los Angeles; Minneapolis, Minn.: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press; Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.
  • Fusco, Coco. 2008. A field guide for female interrogators. New York: Seven Stories Press.
  • García, Nasario. 2009. The naked rainbow and other stories = el arco iris desnudo y otros cuentos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
  • Garland, Leah. 2009. Contemporary Latina/o performing arts of Moraga, Tropicana, Fusco, and Bustamante. Modern American literature. Vol. 44. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Griffin, John David and Brian Newman. 2008. Minority report : Evaluating political equality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Jackson, Carlos Francisco. 2009. Chicana and Chicano art : ProtestArte. The Mexican American experience. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence M. 2009. Uñas pintadas de azul = blue fingernails. [short stories] Tempe, Ariz.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe.
  • Levine, Barry B. 2009. Reflections on a Puerto Rican life : Benjy López : A picaresque tale of emigration and return [Benjy Lopez]. 1 Markus Wiener Publishers ed. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers.
  • Lomas, Laura. 2008. Translating empire : José Martí, migrant Latino subjects, and American modernities. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • López, Josefina. 2009. Hungry woman in Paris. [novel] New York: Grand Central Pub.
  • Macias, Anthony F. 2008. Mexican American mojo : Popular music, dance, and urban culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968. Refiguring American music. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Rivera, Raquel Z., Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini Hernandez. 2009. Reggaeton. Refiguring American music. Durham NC: Duke University Press.
  • Sandoval, Anna Marie. 2008. Toward a Latina feminism of the Americas : Repression and resistance in Chicana and Mexicana literature. Chicana matters series. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Please enjoy!
Marisol

Friday, August 28, 2009

Welcome Back!!! News and Updates from your Library

Hi folks!

Welcome back all! Summer is gone and the Fall semester is upon us and I want to take the opportunity to let you know about the different things happening at the library.

1) We have a new interlibrary loan program called ILLiad, which will completely replaced our older one. You need to create a profile the first time you use this product which will record your contact info and preference regarding how to get your interlibrary loan requests and where to send it (to your library or home address). For more info, visit, http://www.lib.uconn.edu/services/ill/

2) For those of you that use the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center to do archival research, our reading room hours are back to 10am-4pm M-F. Saturday and Sunday the archives will still be closed.

3) There is still time to ask me to teach your students about our library resources, research strategies and citation style. Except for the week of October 3-10, I am available to teach either at the library or your classroom. Just let me know what do you prefer.

4) I will be away for a week, Oct 5-10, 2009 to attend LIBER (Feria Internacional del Libro) book fair in Madrid, Spain. If you want me to meet with a particular publisher in Spain, please let me know by email.

5) Finally, I will be posting later a list of our latest acquisition in English for your subject areas. A lot of books and movies for all!

Welcome back again and have a great new semester!

Marisol Ramos

Friday, August 7, 2009

Women Fashion Magazines at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center


Hi folks,

I just wanted to share the latest addition to Thomas J. Dodd website's feature, Item of the Month: Women's Magazines and Fashion in the 19th Century Spain-A Snapshot of the Spanish Periodicals and Newspapers Collection.

For this piece, I selected images from the Magazine, Correo de la Moda, Madrid,
T. 1, no. 9-26, 28 (Feb. - Dec., 1852), SPAN PER 444. This magazine, like other periodicals of the period, included color prints with the latest fashions in Paris, woodcuts of needle work patterns and sewing patterns, music scores composed exclusively for the magazine and, of course, many articles about what the well educated Spanish women should know about etiquette, history, literature and other edifying information. Most of the magazines were edited by men for a women audience, although there were other male magazines that included sections advising how to educate "el bello sexo," the beautiful sex.

This sample is just a snapshot of the wide variety of materials found in this collection, which include periodicals on literature, sciences, and politics from the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Indeed an snapshot of Spanish culture--from the sublime to the comical, from good times to war times (Napoleonic war, Wars of Independence in Latin America)

Please, take the time to visit
this Thomas J. Dodd website's feature, Item of the Month to learn more about who created this material and how we acquired for the archives.

Currently, the staff at the UConn Libraries are in the process of digitizing one of the many titles found in the collection:
Correo de las damas o poliantea instructiva, curiosa y agradable de literatura, ciencias y artes published in Cadiz, Spain during the early part of the 19th century. We hope to digitize more women magazines in the future to make them more accessible to our users at UConn and our international scholars. To see the latest volumes that have been digitized, visit http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=correo%20de%20las%20damas

Enjoy!
Marisol

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Latest HOMER acquisitions, March 30th 2009

Hi folks,

As you know, because the current financial crisis, the library and the Thomas J. Dodd research center have changed their hours. The library hours didn't change too much, we are opening at 8:30am Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday is still opening at 10am. Now, the Dodd Center change is more drastic today we are only opening from noon-4pm Monday to Friday and not opening during the weekend at all as we used to do. Consider these changes when requesting library and archival instruction classes.

Here is the latest list of material acquired and already available at the Homer Babbidge Library.

Enjoy!

Marisol


Spanish Literature/Teaching
  • Cruz, Anne J. Approaches to teaching Lazarillo de Tormes and the picaresque tradition. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. . Picaresque literature, Spanish--Study and teaching--Spanish drama Classical period, 1500-1700.
  • O'Bryen, Rory. Literature, testimony and cinema in contemporary Colombian culture: Spectres of la violencia. Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY: Tamesis, 2008. . Violence in popular culture--Colombia.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies (All)
  • Barra, Ximena de la and Richard Alan Dello Buono. Latin America after the neoliberal debacle: Another region is possible. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. Neoliberalism--Latin America--Latin America Politics and government--1980---Economic policy--Globalization Economic aspects--Foreign economic relations--Social movements--Latin America Social conditions--1982.
  • Braziel, Jana Evans. Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the writing of new worlds. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009. [Table of Content: Introduction: Caribbean genesis, alterbiography, and the writing of new worlds -- Alterrains of "blackness" in At the bottom of the river -- Jablesse, obeah, and Caribbean cosmogonies in At the bottom of the river -- The diabolic as diasporic in Annie John and Lucy -- Genre, genealogy, and genocide in The autobiography of my mother -- Death and the biographical autograph in My brother -- Genre, genealogy, and genesis in Mr. Potter.] Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.
  • Brewer Carías, Allan-Randolph. Constitutional protection of human rights in Latin America: A comparative study of Amparo proceedings. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Human rights--Latin America--Civil rights--Amparo (Writ).
  • Grandin, Greg. Empire's workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism. New York: Metropolitan/Owl Books, 2007; 2006. Latin America Relations--United States--United States Relations--Latin America--Americans Latin America--History--United States Foreign relations 2001---Philosophy--Imperialism.
  • Guadeloupe, Francio. Chanting down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and capitalism in the Caribbean. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Ethnology--Saint Martin (West Indies)--Ethnicity--Anthropology of religion--Religion and culture--Disc jockeys Social aspects--Music Social aspects--Ethnic relations--Race relations--Social conditions.
  • Luis-Brown, David. Waves of decolonization: Discourses of race and hemispheric citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Racism Cuba--History--Racism Mexico--Racism United States--Cuba Race relations--Mexico Race relations--United States Race relations--Decolonization Cuba--Decolonization Mexico--Decolonization United States.
  • McWatters, Mason R. Residential tourism: (de)constructing paradise. Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY: Channel View Publications, 2009. . Retirement, Places of--Latin America--Tourism.
  • Norton, Marcy. Sacred gifts, profane, pleasures : a history of tobacco and chocolate in the Atlantic world. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008. Tobacco and Chocolate --History--Latin American and Europe.Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.
Diasporas Studies
  • Kagan, Richard L. and Philip D. Morgan. Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Converses, and Crypto-Jews in the age of mercantilism, 1500-1800. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. . Sephardim History--Congresses--Marranos History--Jews History--Economic history 1600-1750.
Latin American Literature in translation
  • Bolaño, Roberto and Natasha Wimmer. The savage detectives. New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Poets, Mexican--Fiction--Fugitives from justice Mexico--Underground literature--Latin American poetry--Mexico City (Mexico).
Latinos in the US/Immigrants Issues/Border Issues
  • Buff, Rachel. Immigrant rights in the shadows of citizenship: Nation of newcomers. New York: New York University Press, 2008. Emigration and immigration law United States--History--Constitutional law--United States--Immigrants Civil rights United States--Immigrants Government policy United States--Social integration Government policy United States.
  • Cantú, Lionel, Nancy A. Naples, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz. The Sexuality of Migration: Border crossings and Mexican immigrant men. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Mexican American gays--United States--Gay immigrants--Gay men--Mexico.
  • Dalla, Rochelle L. Strengths and challenges of new immigrant families: Implications for research, education, policy, and service. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009. Family--Immigrants--Family social work--Family policy.
  • Davis, Jeffrey. Justice across borders: The struggle for human rights in U.S. courts. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. United States--Alien Tort Claims Act--Administrative responsibility--Aliens--Government liability (International law)--International offenses. Table of Content: The seeds of legal accountability -- Competing forces in the struggle for accountability : An overview of the issues entangling ATS litigation -- Human rights entrepreneurs : NGOs and the ATS revolution -- Separation of powers and human rights cases -- No safe haven : human rights cases challenging foreign countries and nationals -- Holding corporations accountable for human rights violations -- Sorting through the ashes : testing findings and predictions through quantitative analysis -- Impact and conclusion.; Includes bibliographical references and index. There are several chapters dealing with Mexican Immigrants and other Latino immigrants.
  • Estévez, Ariadna. Human rights and free trade in Mexico: A discursive and sociopolitical perspective. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Human rights--Mexico--Free trade Social aspects.
  • Margolis, Maxine L. An invisible minority: Brazilians in New York City. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. Brazilian Americans New York (State) New York--Social conditions--Brazilians New York (State) New York--Immigrants New York (State) New York--Brazil--Emigration and immigration--New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.
  • Morgan, Charlie V. Intermarriage across race and ethnicity among immigrants: E pluribus unions. El Paso: LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009. Intermarriage--United States--Interethnic marriage--Interracial marriage--Immigrants.
  • Pécoud, Antoine and P. F. A. de Guchteneire. Migration without borders: Essays on the free movement of people. Paris; New York: UNESCO Pub.; Berghahn Books, 2007. International migration is high on the public and political agenda of many countries, as the movement of people raises concerns while often eluding states attempts at regulation. In this context, the scenario challenges conventional views on the need to control and restrict migration flows. This book explores the analytical issues raised by open borders, in terms of ethics, human rights, economic development, politics, social cohesion and welfare, and provides in-depth empirical investigations of how free movement is addressed and governed in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia.--Publisher's description. Emigration and immigration--Boundaries.
  • Riley, Jason. Let them in: The case for open borders. New York, N.Y.: Gotham Books, 2008. A conservative columnist makes an eye-opening case for why immigration improves the lives of Americans and is important for the future of the country. He argues that our open-immigration policy goes a long way toward explaining the difference between robust economic growth in the United States and stagnation in places like Europe. Separating fact from myth in today's heated immigration debate, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board contends that foreign workers play a vital role in keeping America prosperous; that maintaining an open-border policy is consistent with free-market economic principles; and that the arguments put forward by opponents of immigration ultimately don't hold up to scrutiny.--From publisher description. United States Emigration and immigration--Government policy--United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. and Mariela Páez. Latinos: Remaking America. 2nd Edition. Berkeley, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass.: University of California Press; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2009. Hispanic Americans Social conditions--21st century--Hispanic Americans Politics and government--Hispanic Americans Economic conditions--United States Social conditions--1980---United States--Ethnic relations.
  • Vázquez, Francisco H. and Francisco H. Vázquez. Latino/a thought: Culture, politics, and society. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. . Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life--Politics and government--Social conditions--United States--Ethnic relations--United States Ethnic relations--Political aspects--Ethnicity Political aspects.
  • Wroe, Andrew. The Republican Party and immigration politics: From proposition 187 to George W. Bush. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Illegal aliens Government policy--United States--United States Emigration and immigration--Government policy--California--California Emigration and immigration--Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).
Argentina
  • France, Miranda. Bad times in Buenos Aires : a writer’s adventures in Argentina. Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1999. Journeys--Argentina--Buenos Aires.
  • Ruiz, Maximiliano. Graffiti Argentina. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. Graffiti--Argentina--Street art--Graffiti Argentina--Pictorial works--Street art Argentina.
  • Wilson, Jason. Buenos Aires: A cultural and literary companion New York: Interlink Books, 2000. Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Description and travel--In literature--Buenos Aires (Argentina) History--Miscellanea--Social life and customs.
Brazil
  • Fischer, Brodwyn M. A poverty of rights: Citizenship and inequality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. . Poor Civil rights Brazil Rio de Janeiro History--20th century--Equality Brazil Rio de Janeiro History--Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Politics and government--Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Social conditions--Brazil Politics and government.
  • Furtado, Júnia Ferreira. Chica da silva : A Brazilian slave of the eighteenth century. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Silva, Chica da, d. 1796--Slaves Brazil--Biography--Slavery Brazil History--18th century--Brazil Social conditions.
  • Love, Joseph LeRoy and Werner Baer. Brazil under Lula: Economy, politics, and society under the worker-president. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Brazil Politics and government--2003---Brazil Economic conditions--1985---Brazil Social conditions.
  • McGowan, Chris. The Brazilian sound : samba, bossa nova, and the popular music of Brazil. Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2009. New edition. [Table of Content: Five centuries of music -- Samba : the heartbeat of Rio -- Bossa nova : the new way -- MPB : a musical rainbow -- Minas Gerais : musical treasure -- Bahia of all the saints -- North by northeast -- Brazilian instrumental music and jazz -- Tropical rock -- More Brazilian sounds.Popular music--Brazil--History and criticism
Chile
  • Qureshi, Lubna Z. Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende: U.S. involvement in the 1973 coup in Chile. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. Chile History Coup d'état, 1973--Causes--United States Foreign relations--Chile--Chile Foreign relations--United States--Allende Gossens, Salvador, 1908-1973--Nixon, Richard M--(Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Kissinger, Henry, 1923---Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Taylor, Marcus. From Pinochet to the 'third way’: Neoliberalism and social transformation in Chile. London ; Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2006. . Chile Politics and government--1988---Neoliberalism--Chile.
Colombia (Social activism/Afro-Colombian)
  • Escobar, Arturo. Territories of difference: Place, movements, life, redes: New ecologies for the twenty-first century. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Social movements Colombia Pacific Coast--Case studies--Regionalism Colombia--Pacific Coast--Proceso Nacional de Comunidades Negras--Blacks Colombia Pacific Coast--Politics and government--Pacific Coast (Colombia)--Social conditions. [Note from Publisher: In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia's Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN).]
Guatemala (indigenous people)
  • Grandin, Greg. The blood of Guatemala: A history of race and nation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. Quiché Indians--Politics and government--Guatemala--Race relations--Mayas Guatemala--Social conditions.
Haiti
  • Dubois, Laurent. Avengers of the new world: The story of the Haitian revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005; 2004. Haiti History--Revolution, 1791-1804.

Mexico
  • Owensby, Brian Philip. Empire of law and Indian justice in colonial Mexico. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. Indians of Mexico--Legal status, laws, etc--Government relations--History--Justice, Administration of Mexico--Mexico History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
  • Bacon, David. The Children of NAFTA: Labor wars on the U.S. Mexico border. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Alien labor, Mexican--United States--Mexican Americans--Employment--Migrant labor--Mexican-American Border Region--Quality of work life--Labor movement--Canada--Treaties, etc. 1992 Oct. 7--Economic conditions--Social conditions.
  • Padilla, Tanalis. Rural resistance in the land of Zapata: The Jaramillista movement and the myth of the pax priísta, 1940-1962. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Mexico Politics and government--1946-1970--Jaramillo, Rubén M., d. 1962--Morelos (Mexico : State) Politics and government--20th century--Morelos (Mexico : State) History--Autonomy and independence movements--Land reform Mexico History.
  • Pitarch, Pedro, Shannon Speed, and Xochitl Leyva Solano. Human rights in the Maya region: Global politics, cultural contentions, and moral engagements. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Mayas--Government relations--Legal status, laws, etc--Human rights Mexico--Chiapas--Human rights--Guatemala--Chiapas (Mexico)--Ethnic relations.
  • Preston, Julia and Sam Dillon. Opening Mexico: The making of a democracy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Mexico Politics and government--1988-2000--1946-1970--1970-1988--Democracy--Mexico--Politicians Mexico.
  • Schreiber, Rebecca Mina. Cold war exiles in Mexico: U.S. dissidents and the culture of critical resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Americans Mexico History--20th century--Politics and culture--Mexico--Political refugees Mexico History--United States--Political refugees United States History--Cold War--Influence.
  • Speed, Shannon, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn Stephen. Dissident women: Gender and cultural politics in Chiapas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. Maya women Mexico Chiapas--Social conditions--Politics and government--Chiapas (Mexico).
Peru
  • Lamana, Gonzalo. Domination without dominance: Inca-Spanish encounters in early colonial Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. Incas--History--First contact with Europeans--Peru History--Conquest, 1522-1548--America Discovery and exploration--Spanish.
  • Osorio, Alejandra B. Inventing Lima: Baroque modernity in Peru's south sea metropolis. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Lima (Peru)--History--Civilization--Politics and culture Peru--Lima.
  • Turino, Thomas. Music in the Andes : experiencing music, expressing culture. New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. [Table of Content: Indigenous wind ensembles and community -- Charango string traditions -- Dance dramas in mestizo Catholic festivals -- Andean music in Andean cities : the case of Lima, Peru -- Andean music in the cities of the world.] Music--Andes Region--History and criticism.
Puerto Rico
  • Picó, Fernando. Puerto Rico inside and out : Changes and continuities. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2008. Puerto Rico--Social life and customs.

Friday, January 30, 2009

New Acquisitions in HOMER Jan. 30, 2009 Part 2

Hi folks,

Here is the second part of the latest acquisitions available in HOMER

Latinos in the US (Social Sciences, History & Literature)
  • Acuña, Rodolfo and Guadalupe Compean. VOICES OF THE U.S. LATINO EXPERIENCE. The American Mosaic. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008. Hispanic Americans History--Sources.
  • Alvarez, Luis. THE POWER OF THE ZOOT : YOUTH CULTURE AND RESISTANCE DURING WORLD WAR II. American Crossroads. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Popular culture United States History--20th century--Youth United States Social life and customs--Minority youth United States Social life and customs--Fashion United States History--United States Social life and customs--1918-1945--United States Social conditions--United States--Race relations--World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects--Sleepy Lagoon Trial, Los Angeles, 1942-1943--Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943.
  • Brechin, Gray A. IMPERIAL SAN FRANCISCO : URBAN POWER, EARTHLY RUIN. California Studies in Critical Human Geography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006; 1999. San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Biography--San Francisco (Calif.)--Elite (Social sciences) California San Francisco Bay Area--History.
  • Chavez, Leo R. THE LATINO THREAT : CONSTRUCTING IMMIGRANTS, CITIZENS, AND THE NATION. . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. Hispanic Americans Press coverage--United States--Mexican Americans Press coverage--Immigrants Civil rights--Citizenship--Emigration and immigration law--Prejudices in the press.
  • Peña, Manuel H. WHERE THE OX DOES NOT PLOW : a MEXICAN AMERICAN BALLAD. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Mexican Americans Southwest, New--Biography--Mexican Americans Cultural assimilation--Southwest, New--Social conditions--Ethnic relations--Ethnicity.
  • Perez, Domino Renee. THERE WAS a WOMAN : LA LLORONA FROM FOLKLORE TO POPULAR CULTURE. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. Llorona (Legendary character)--Legends--Mexico--Popular culture--Mexican Americans--Folklore--United States.
  • Ruíz, Vicki, John R. Chávez, and William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. MEMORIES AND MIGRATIONS : MAPPING BORICUA AND CHICANA HISTORIES. . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. . Mexican American women Social conditions 20th century--Congresses--Puerto Rican women Social conditions 20th century--Women immigrants United States Social conditions 20th century--Mexicans Migrations History 20th century--Puerto Ricans Migrations History 20th century--Community life United States History 20th century--Sex role United States History 20th century--Ethnicity United States History 20th century--United States Ethnic relations History 20th century--United States Social conditions 20th century.
  • Telles, Edward Eric and Vilma Ortiz. GENERATIONS OF EXCLUSION : MEXICAN AMERICANS, ASSIMILATION, AND RACE. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008. . Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity--Cultural assimilation--Interviews--Longitudinal studies--Social surveys--United States--Intergenerational relations--Race relations--Ethnic relations.
  • Valencia, Richard R. CHICANO STUDENTS AND THE COURTS : THE MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY. Critical America. New York: New York University Press, 2008. Discrimination in education Law and legislation--United States--Mexican American students Legal status, laws, etc.
  • Washburne, Christopher. SOUNDING SALSA : PERFORMING LATIN MUSIC IN NEW YORK CITY. Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. Salsa (Music) New York (State) New York--History and criticism--Salsa (Music) New York State New York--Social aspects.
Hispanic American/Latino Literature
  • Brunschwig, Karen and Maria Montoya. HIJAS OLVIDADAS : TWO CONTEMPORARY PLAYS BY HISPANIC WOMEN WRITERS. Lanham: University Press of America, 2009. Spanish language--Readers--Spanish drama--20th century.
  • Fetta, Stephanie. THE Chicano/Latino LITERARY PRIZE : AN ANTHOLOGY OF PRIZE-WINNING FICTION, POETRY, AND DRAMA. Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press, 2008. American literature--Hispanic American authors--Mexican American authors--20th century--Hispanic Americans--Literary collections--Mexican Americans.
  • Fornes, Maria Irene. WHAT OF THE NIGHT? : SELECTED PLAYS. New York: PAJ Publications, 2008. . American drama.
  • González, Rigoberto. MEN WITHOUT BLISS. Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Américas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. Mexican Americans--Fiction--Men.
  • Torres-Padilla, José L. and Carmen Haydée Rivera. WRITING OFF THE HYPHEN : NEW CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE LITERATURE OF THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA. American Ethnic and Cultural Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. American literature Puerto Rican authors--History and criticism--Puerto Ricans United States--Intellectual life--Puerto Rican literature--Puerto Ricans in literature.
Spanish (Language and Literature-English language books)
  • Beverley, John. ESSAYS ON THE LITERARY BAROQUE IN SPAIN AND SPANISH AMERICA. Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías. Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY: Tamesis, 2008. Spanish literature Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Baroque literature.
  • Fouz-Hernández, Santiago and Alfredo Martínez Expósito. LIVE FLESH : THE MALE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH CINEMA. London: I. B. Tauris, 2007. Men in motion pictures--Motion pictures Spain--History.
  • Fuchs, Barbara. EXOTIC NATION : MAUROPHILIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EARLY MODERN SPAIN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Spain History--711-1516--Spain Civilization--Islamic influences--Muslims Spain--History--National characteristics, Spanish--Spain--Ethnic relations.
  • George, David J., John London, and D. H. Gagen. SPANISH FILM, THEATRE AND LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY : ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF DEREK GAGEN. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007. Theater Spain History--20th century--Motion pictures Spain History--Spanish literature 20th century--History and criticism.
  • Muñoz Molina, Antonio and Margaret Sayers Peden. SEPHARAD. . Orlando: Harcourt, 2003. . Sephardim--Fiction--Jews.
  • Samson, Alexander and Jonathan Thacker. A COMPANION TO LOPE DE VEGA. Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías. Woodbridge ; Rochester, NY: Tamesis, 2008. . Vega, Lope de, 1562-1635--Authors, Spanish Classical period, 1500-1700--Biography.
  • Walsh, Anne L. ARTURO PÉREZ-REVERTE : NARRATIVE TRICKS AND NARRATIVE STRATEGIES. Colección Támesis. Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007. Pérez-Reverte, Arturo--Criticism and interpretation--Technique--Fiction.
Iberian Peninsula (Social Sciences/Humanities)
  • Corcuera Atienza, Javier. THE ORIGINS, IDEOLOGY, AND ORGANIZATION OF BASQUE NATIONALISM, 1876-1903. Occasional Papers Series / Center for Basque Studies. Reno, Nev.: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. "Charts the rise of Basque nationalism within the context of a society experiencing tremendous economic, social, and political transformation, focusing on the figure of Sabino Arana"--Provided by publisher. Nationalism Spain--País Vasco--País Vasco (Spain).
  • Eaude, Michael. CATALONIA : A CULTURAL HISTORY. Landscapes of the Imagination. Oxford: Signal Books, 2007. . Catalonia (Spain)--Civilization.
  • Rohr, Isabelle and Cañada Blanch. THE SPANISH RIGHT AND THE JEWS, 1898-1945 : ANTISEMITISM AND OPPORTUNISM. Cañada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain. Brighton England ; Portland, Or.: Sussex Academic Press, 2007. Jews Spain Politics and government--19th century--20th century--Jews Morocco Politics and government--Antisemitism Spain History--Conservatism Spain History--Sephardim History--World War, 1939-1945 Jews Rescue--Spain--Ethnic relations--Spain Politics and government--1886-1931--1931-1939--1939-1945.
  • Schwartz, Ronald. GREAT SPANISH FILMS SINCE 1950. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008. Motion pictures Spain--History.
  • Smith, Paul Julian. SPANISH VISUAL CULTURE : CINEMA, TELEVISION, INTERNET. . Manchester ; New York; New York: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006. Arts, Spanish--Popular culture--Spain--Visual communication Social aspects--Mass media and culture--Art and society--Civilization.
  • Smith, Theresa Ann. THE EMERGING FEMALE CITIZEN : GENDER AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN SPAIN. Studies on the History of Society and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Women Spain History--18th century--Sex role Spain History--Women Spain--Intellectual life--Social conditions--Feminism Spain History.
  • Gutiérrez-Albilla, Julián Daniel. QUEERING BUÑUEL : SEXUAL DISSIDENCE AND PYSCHOANALYSIS IN HIS MEXICAN AND SPANISH CINEMA. London ; New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2008. . Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983--Criticism and interpretation--Homosexuality in motion pictures--Motion pictures.

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