Hispanics/Latinos in the United States from Amazon

TITLE: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW

Author: Ilan Stavans

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN-13:  978-0190670191

This volume provides a multifaceted exploration of Latino American history and culture, and the forces shaping this minority group in the U.S. From exploring the origins of the term “Latino” to tracing topical issues like DREAMers, and the controversial relationship between Latin America and the United States, Ilan Stavans seeks to understand the complexities and unique position of Latino Americans. He breaks down various subgroups within the Latino minority (Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, and so on), and the degree to which these groups constitute -- or don't -- a homogenous community, their history, and where their future challenges lie.

TITLE: LATINO POLITICS

Authors: Lisa García Bedolla, Christian Hosam

Publisher: Polity

ISBN-13: 9781509537747

The third edition of this popular text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Latino political engagement in U.S. politics. Focusing on six Latino groups – Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans – the book explores the migratory history of each and examines their political status on arrival in the United States, including their civil rights, employment opportunities, and political incorporation. Finally, the analysis follows each group’s history of collective mobilization and political activity, drawing out the varied ways they have engaged in the US political system.

TITLE: LATINOS IN THE UNITED STATES: DIVERSITY AND CHANGE

Authors: Rogelio Saenz, Maria Cristina Morales

Publisher: Polity

ISBN-13: 9780745642727

As the major driver of U.S. demographic change, Latinos are reshaping key aspects of the social, economic, political, and cultural landscape of the country and are challenging the longstanding black/white paradigm that has been used as a lens to understand racial and ethnic matters in the United States.

In this book, Sáenz and Morales provide one of the broadest sociological examinations of Latinos in the U.S., and focus on the numerous, diverse groups that constitute the Latino population. They also examine the role that the U.S. government has played in establishing immigration from Latin America to the United States.

TITLE: OUR AMERICA: A HISPANIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

Authors: Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN-13: 9780393349825

The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown – a view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers and conquistadores who planted Spain’s first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida, and the Southwest.

As the demographic profile of the United States becomes increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater.

The United States clearly has a Hispanic past, present, and future..

Latin American History from Louisiana University Press

TITLE: LATIN AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC HISTORY

Author: Harold Eugene Davis, John J. Finan, and F. Taylor Peck

Publisher: LSU Press

ISBN-13:  9780807102862

Here is a fresh and unconventional introduction to the history of Latin American international relations, from colonial times to the present.

Latin American Diplomatic History begins with the origins and nature of Latin American foreign policies and proceeds to the diplomatic conflicts and agreements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This synthesis draws out the persistent tensions among Latin American countries—border conflicts, economic rivalries, population pressures, and ethnic clashes.

This straightforward historical survey will appeal to all professionals, laymen, and students with an interest in Latin American relations.

TITLE: WOMEN, WITCHCRAFT, AND THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD

Edited by: María Jesús Zamora Calvo

Publisher:  LSU Press

ISBN-13: 9780807175613

This volume investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Americas. It considers how the Holy Office of the Inquisition functioned as a closed, secret world defined by patriarchal hierarchy and grounded in misogynistic standards.Ten essays present portraits of women who, under accusations as diverse as witchcraft, bigamy, false beatitude, and heresy, faced the Spanish and New World Inquisitions to account for their lives. Each essay draws on the documentary record of trials, confessions, letters, diaries, and other primary materials.

TITLE: FROM THE BANANA ZONES TO THE BIG EASY

Author: Glenn A. Chambers

Publisher: LSU Press

ISBN-13: 9780807170496

This volume focuses on the immigration of West Indians and Central Americans to New Orleans from the turn of the twentieth century to the start of World War II. Chambers discerns the methods by which these individuals of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds integrated into New Orleans society and explores two questions: What did it mean to be “West Indian” within a context in which the persons migrating were not born in the West Indies? And how did Central Americans grapple with this “West Indian” cultural identity when their political identity (citizenship) was Honduran, Costa Rican, or Panamanian?

TITLE: BLACK LABOR, WHITE SUGAR

Author:  Philip A. Howard

Publisher: LSU Press

ISBN-13: 9780807159521

Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane conditions they endured in the cane fields. Rather than reforming their practices, sugar companies gained permission from the Cuban government to import thousands of black workers from other Caribbean colonies, primarily Haiti and Jamaica. This volume illuminates the story of these immigrants, and the strategies they used to fight back. Howard traces the socioeconomic and political circumstances in Haiti and Jamaica that led men to leave their homelands to cut, load, and haul sugarcane in Cuba.