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The Latino/a condition: a critical reader
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From the Book - 2nd ed.
Welcome to the old world / Earl Shorris
Hispanics? that's what they call us / Suzanne Oboler
Chance, context, and choice in the social construction of race / Ian F. Haney López
Latino/a identity and multi-identity : community and culture / Leslie G. Espinoza
Building bridges : Latinas and Latinos at the crossroads / Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol
Life in the hyphen / Ilan Stavans
Re-imagining the Latino/a race / Ángel R. Oquendo
The question of race / Clara E. Rodriquez
Gateway to whiteness : the census and hispanic/Latino identity / Gustavo Chacon Mendoza
Occupied America / Rodolfo Acuña
The first U.S. Latinos : white wealth and Mexican labor / Joe R. Feagin
Tracing the trajectories of conquest / Juan F. Perea
Latinos in the United States : invitation and exile / Gilbert Paul Carrasco
Greasers go home : Mexican immigration, the 1920s / Rodolfo Acuña
Ambivalent reception / Wayne A. Cornelius
No poor need apply / Kevin R. Johnson
The privatization of immigration control / Robert Koulish
Puerto Rico and the federal government / Roger Daniels
The Cuban American exile ideology / Guillermo J. Grenier
A separate and inferior race / José Luis Morín
Anglo-Saxons and Mexicans / Reginald Horsman
"Occupied" Mexico / Ronald Takaki
Initial contacts : niggers, redskins, and greasers / Arnoldo de León
"The Mexican problem" / Carey McWilliams
The Mexican question in the Southwest / Emma Tenayuca and Homer Brooks
The master narrative of white supremacy in California / Tomás Almaguer
Are anti-immigrant statements racist or nativist? what difference does it make? / René Galindo and Jami Virgil
Racial depiction in American law and culture / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
Hispanic stereotyping / Charles Ramirez Berg
Imaging Mexican Americans : rationalizing oppression / Joe R. Feagin
From el bandido to gang member / Mary Romero
The triple taboo / Richard Delgado
The war on terrorism and its consequences for Latinas/os / Steven W. Bender
Latinos, Inc. : the marketing and making of a people / Arlene Dávila
Repercussions of Latinos' colonized mentality / Laura M. Padilla
My grandfather's stories and immigration law / Michael A. Olivas
Storytelling for oppositionists and others / Richard Delgado
I am Joaquín : Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales and the retroactive construction of Chicanismo / George Hartley
Borderlands / Gloria Anzaldúa
Rodrigo's chronicle / Richard Delgado
The significance of narrative for outsiders / George A. Martinez
Narrative, storytelling, and the mantra of intersectionality / Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres
Insurgent metaphors / Otto Santa Ana
The idea of a constitution in the Chicano tradition / Gerald P. López
Early Chicano activism : zoot suits, sleepy lagoon, and the road to Delano / Rodolfo Acuña
"Breaking the law" on principle / Michael A. Olivas
Life in the trenches / Oscar "Zeta" Acosta
Legal violence and the Chicano movement / Ian F. Haney López
Is a burrito a sandwich? / Marjorie Florestal
The work we know so little about / Gerald P. López
Should good people be prosecutors? / Paul Butler
The black/white binary paradigm of race / Juan F. Perea
The black/white binary : how does it work? / Richard Delgado
Chicano Indianism / Martha Menchaca
Mexican Americans as a legally cognizable class / Richard Delgado and Vicky Palacios
Mexican Americans and whiteness / George A. Martinez
Mexican Americans and the Faustian pact with whiteness / Neil Foley
Race and erasure : the salience of race to Latinos/as / Ian F. Haney López
Brown over "other white" : Mexican Americans' litigation strategy in school desegregation lawsuits / Steven H. Wilson
LULAC and the assimilationist perspective / David G. Gutiérrez
Melting pot or ring of fire? / Kevin R. Johnson
Assimilation and demographic replenishment / Mary Waters
A scholarship boy / Richard Rodriguez
Masks and acculturation / Margaret E. Montoya
The Mexican case : the story of the immigrant second generation / Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut
Harvard homeboy / Ruben Navarrette, Jr.
Dropping the hyphen? / Tanya Golash-Boza
Going to school : "two struggles / Julio Cammarota
Over the rainbow / Neil Foley
Who counts? Title VII and the Hispanic classification / Alex M. Saragoza, Concepción R. Juarez, Abel Valenzuela, Jr., and Oscar Gonzalez
Latinegras : desired woment-undesirable mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen
Mestizaje and the Mexican mestizo self : no hay sangre negra, so there is no blackness / Taunya Lovell Banks
Inventing race / John D. Skrentny
Locating Latinos in the field of civil rights : the neoliberal case for radical exclusion / Richard Delgado
African-Americans, Latinos, and the construction of race : toward an epistemic coalition / George A. Martinez
Do immigrants take away black jobs? / Kevin R. Johnson and Bill Ong Hing
Our next race question : the uneasiness between blacks and Latinos / Jorge Klor de Alva, Earl Shorris, and Cornel West
Mexican gender ideology / Adelaida R. del Castillo
Latinas and religion : subordination or state of grace? / Laura M. Padilla
"In the beginning he wouldn't life even a spoon" / Beatriz M. Pesquera
Domestic violence against Latinas / Jenny Rivera
Chicano rap : machos y malas mujeres / Pancho McFarland
Latina sexuality, reproduction, and fertility as threats to the nation / Leo R. Chavez
Maid in the U.S.A. / Mary Romero
Three perspectives on workplace harassment of women of color / Maria L. Ontiveros
What's in a name? retention and loss of the maternal surname / Yvonne M. Cherena Pacheco
Hold your tongue / James Crawford
The English language movement / Steven W. Bender
American languages, cultural pluralism, and official English / Juan F. Perea
How the García cousins lost their accents / Christopher David Ruiz Cameron
The law of the noose : a history of Latino lynching and its relation to official English / Richard Delgado
Hernandez : the wrong message at the wrong time / Miguel A. Méndez
Attorney as interpreter / Bill Piatt
Buscando América : why integration and equal protection fail to protect Latinos / Juan F. Perea
The Latin look and "Walter Cronkite Spanish" / Arlene Dávila.
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