Celebrating One and All

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self--a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s.

This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape.

This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their ‘Love and Rockets’ series quickly gained prominence. They have since published in more mainstream venues but have maintained an outsider status based on their own background and the content of their work.

This book addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses on the success, not failure, of Latino students. While much of the existing research works from a deficit lens, this book uses a strength-based approach to support Latino achievement.

A collection of twenty short stories features tales about oddballs, freaks, and crazy people.

This fact sheet, from the Office of Minority Health, provides information and statistics on Hispanic and Latino/Latina health topics. It includes notable government actions taken to improve health disparities in this population, as well as lists of relevant resources from agencies across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on two waves of interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life, intersecting with gender to constrain family formation.

Winner of the 2020 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2020 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the Latino/a Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association

This is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women’s sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws.

Study on Poverty Issues among Hispanic Americans in the Second-Half of the 20th Century

Mexican American immigrants and their lives in the U.S.

Latino, Hispanic & Chicano, Who Are They?

Debates on Latin American Society and Culture

This is the inspiring story of Carmen Castillo, an immigrant Dominican housekeeper in a Providence hotel who wins a City Council seat, taking her advocacy for low-income workers from the margins to city politics.

This instructional video, from the Cultural Awareness in Healthcare series produced by MedCom, Inc., is an example of cultural awareness when giving medical services to Hispanics.

This program provides practical and effective methods of recognizing and dealing with the special needs of different cultures at a time when many believe that racism is on the rise. Developed for healthcare workers in the home health setting

He's famous for the great tenor arias. However at a performance in Argentina, opera star Juan Diego Flórez managed a balancing act between classical music on the one hand and Latin American classics on the other, with Vincenzo Scalera joining him on piano.

Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-winning feature documentary that follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from trendy clothing retailer Forever 21.

Actress Andréa Burns (In the Heights) and three-time Tony Award-winning actress Chita Rivera (West Side Story, Chicago) discuss how representation has changed throughout their careers, the differences between type casting versus stereotyping, and the relationship between authenticity and artistry.

For more than 40 years, choreographer and dancer Rudy Perez has invigorated the American dance scene. In the 1960s he was hailed as a postmodern pioneer at the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater in New York. He garnered critical acclaim for his solos and for the choreography he created for his own dance ensembles, which often included unusual humorous elements. This film follows the fascinating rehearsal of one of Perez’s signature dances, Countdown with the talented dancer Victor Quijada in Los Angeles.

The first Chicano play performed on Broadway, Luis Valdez’s ground-breaking masterpiece uses the Sleepy Lagoon murder case to examine the Zoot Suit culture of the 1940s. Henry Reyna and the 38th Street Gang are discriminated against and tried for murder after a fight breaks out at a party. Passionate and provocative, Zoot Suit pulses with the beat of big band music and traditional Latin songs.