Soy un coronel del Ejército de Guatemala con 25 años de servicio en esa institución que me da de comer a mí y a mi familia. Soy fiel admirador del coronel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, el Soldado del Pueblo, principal ideólogo de la Revolución de Octubre de 1944, presidente de Guatemala de 1951 a 1954, traicionado por algunos oficiales de la cúpula militar de aquellos años, derrocado por orden del presidente estadounidense Dwight Eisenhower (republicano),...

Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers' rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social...

It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and education affect the well-being of families and individuals....

El libro recoge estudios con una clara vocación interdisciplinar: la filosofía, la teología, las ciencias sociales y la literatura provocan intersecciones fecundas y también puntos de fuga. Razón, lenguaje y reconocimiento son las referencias para un posible diálogo donde el objeto de estudio siempre es América Latina, con sus múltiples potencialidades que logren siquiera visibilizar una historia transida de injusticias y desigualdad.

This expanded new edition of the classic 1989 collection of essays about Aztlán weighs its value.

Silencing Gender, Age, Ethnicity and Cultural Biases in Leadership is an edited volume containing eight chapters, each a real-life account from a Latina in a leadership position in the United States. These women discuss how their professional goals may conflict with their culture's expectations for them, and they describe the complexity of life choices for Latinas in the workplace, including their struggles in challenging such social assumptions....

At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target-flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life-putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD. Now, Rios is a rising star, hailed...

"My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her daughter had the intelligence to pass a citywide test," Marta Moreno Vega writes in her essay. She knew then she was loved and valued, and she learned that to be an Afro-Puerto Rican woman meant activism was her birth right. Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina women of African descent...

Investigates race and racism in the U.S. exotic dance industry. This groundbreaking ethnographic study of racial stratification in queer and straight strip clubs examines the lives and working conditions of Black and Latina dancers in strip clubs in New York City and Oakland, California. Though interviews with dancers, customers, managers, boucers, and other strip club employees, Siobhan Brooks explores the connections between race, desire, and commodification...

Este libro recopila los mitos y leyendas de origen mapuche más importantes que se conservan hasta hoy. Más de cincuenta fascinantes relatos en torno a acontecimientos extraordinarios, fantásticos y trascendentes relativos a lo cósmico, a la creación y destrucción del mundo y del ser humano, donde intervienen dioses y semidioses. Narraciones que combinan elementos reales y comprobables con otros maravillosos e imaginarios: por qué un lago del...