This study documents the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the USA. Expanded in this edition to bring developments up to the present day, it traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements - "colonias" - into the vibrant and well-defined community of today. The author places the Puerto Rican diaspora in the broader ...
An extraordinary exploration of Latinas in the United States from the 1800s to the present, this collection of narrative biographies documents the lives of fifteen remarkable individuals who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. This anthology profiles Victoria Reid, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Maria ...
The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion, edited and translated by Jose Fernandez and Martin Favata, is a new and improved translation of Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's chronicle of his journey across a large portion of what is now the United States.
Examining the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin America, Marysa Navarro looks at early indigenous societies along with the Spanish and the Portuguese who claimed the "New World," noting the interaction of race and class. She illustrates these dynamics through portraits of individual women, as ...
This third volume of academic essays on recovering the Hispanic literary heritage of the United States features 27 articles by leading scholars. It addresses the broad topics of "Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels; " "Women's Voices: The Construction of Ethnic Gender Identities; " "Chroniclers, Ethnographers, and ...
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