Hispanic Heritage Month: Books

This three-volume encyclopedia describes and explains the variety and commonalities in Latina/o culture, providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Latina/o cultural forms -- popular culture, folk culture, rites of passages, and many other forms of shared expression.

Addresses the key defining issues of contemporary American society through the lens of political and social controversy.

Covers Hispanic American religiosity, contextualizing the roles of Latino and Latina Americans within U.S. religious culture.

The military heritage of Hispanic Americans in our nation's defense

The fiction of Julia Alvarez: How the García girls lost their accents (1992) and In the time of butterflies (1995) -- The fiction of Rudolfo Anaya: Bless me, Ultima (1972) -- The fiction of Sandra Cisneros: The house on Mango street (1984) and Woman hollering creek (1991) -- The fiction of Junot Díaz: Drown (1996) -- The fiction of Cristina García: Dreaming in Cuban (1992) and The Agüero sisters (1997) -- The fiction of Oscar Hijuelos: The mambo kings play songs of love (1989) -- The fiction of Judith Ortiz Cofer: The line of the sun (1989) -- The fiction of Ernesto Quiñonez: Bodega dreams (2000).

Early Anglo settlers in the Old West crafted negative images of Latinos in part to help justify the takeover of land occupied by Mexicans and Spaniards at the time. Unfortunately, these depictions were perpetuated throughout the 20th century in art, popular culture, and media ...

In the past ten years, literature by U.S. Latinos has gained an extraordinary public currency and has engendered a great deal of interest among educators. Because of the increase in numbers of Latinos in their classrooms, teachers have recognized the benefits of including works by such important writers as Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, and Rudolfo Anaya in the curriculum.

This book focuses on sex and gender issues in the Hispanic worlds, paying homage to all who do not fit within the strict parameters of previous definitions by including broadened descriptions of identity, both biological and social, and by highlighting aspects of traditional and non-traditional lifestyles as portrayed in art and literature.

Presenting a multicultural leadership model, this work brings together the key practices from Latino, African American, and American Indian communities, instead of the traditional and exclusively Anglo-American-based concepts of leadership.