Author: Robert Crosnoe
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: mexican, children, succeed, immigrant, schools, roots, american, helping
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2006-09-14
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 080475523X
ISBN-13: 9780804755238
The children of Mexican immigrant families are the fastest growing population in American schools today. Education can be the key to a better quality of life, especially for a population that faces breathtakingly high poverty rates and few other opportunities for social mobility. But these children are too frequently considered at risk academically. What more can be done to help them succeed?Mexican Roots, American Schools offers a fresh take on this timely and critically important issue by focusing on the first years of elementary school and the complex interplay of learning with other asp
Author: Lisa Magaña
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Keywords: mexican, american, experience, poder, diversity, americans, politics, â¡querer
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0816522650
ISBN-13: 9780816522651
With Mexican Americans now the nation’s fastest growing minority, major political parties are targeting these voters like never before. During the 2004 presidential campaign, both the Republicans and Democrats ran commercials on Spanish-language television networks, and in states across the nation the Mexican-American vote can now mean the difference between winning or losing an election. This book examines the various ways politics plays out in the Mexican-origin community, from grassroots action and voter turnout to elected representation, public policy creation, and the influence
Author: JosÃ? E. LimÃ?n
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: mexican, new, historicism, studies, poetics, cultural, poetry, american, chicano, ballads, poems, history, influence, social
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 1992-07-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520076338
ISBN-13: 9780520076334
Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom’s theories of literary influence but takes Bloom into the socio-political realm. Limón shows how Chicano poetry is nourished by the oral tradition of the Mexican corrido, or master ballad, which was a vital part of artistic and political life along the Mexican-U.S. border from 1890 to 1930.Limón’s
Authors:Héctor Aguilar CamÃn, Lorenzo Meyer,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: mexican, latin, america, series, translations, history, revolution, contemporary, shadow
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 1993
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0292704518
ISBN-13: 9780292704510
Héctor Aguilar CamÃn and Lorenzo Meyer, two of Mexico’s leading intellectuals, set out to fill a void in the literature on Mexican history: the lack of a single text to cover the history of contemporary Mexico during the twentieth century. A la sombra de la Revolución Mexicana, now available in English as In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution, covers the Mexican Revolution itself, the gradual consolidation of institutions, the Cárdenas regime, the "Mexican economic miracle" and its subsequent collapse, and the recent transition toward a new historical period. The authors offer
Author: Gustavo Arellano
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: mexican
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-04-22
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1416540032
ISBN-13: 9781416540038
Author: Lourdes Castro
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: mexican, simply
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1580089526
ISBN-13: 9781580089524
In SIMPLY MEXICAN, Castro presents authentic Mexican recipes that don’t require a fortnight to prepare or extra shopping forays to find rare ingredients. A prodigious traveler who has taught students from all over the Americas, Castro honed her knowledge of fundamental south-of-the-border meals by teaching adult and children’s cooking classes at her Ars Magirica Cooking School. Featuring easy, fun-to-eat, big flavor favorites, such as Chicken Enchiladas with Tomatillo Sauce or Crab Tostadas, Castro’s straightforward recipes are a godsend to busy parents. Once home cooks have
Author: C. M. Mayo
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Keywords: empire, mexican, prince, last
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2010-05-04
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1936071614
ISBN-13: 9781936071616
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is a sweeping historical novel of Mexico during the short, tragic, at times surreal, reign of Emperor Maximilian and his court. Even as the American Civil War raged north of the border, a clique of Mexican conservative exiles and clergy convinced Louis Napoleon to invade Mexico and install the Archduke of Austria, Maximilian von Habsburg, as Emperor. A year later, the childless Maximilian took custody of the two year old, half-American, Prince AgustÃÂn de Iturbide y Green, making the toddler the Heir Presumptive. Maximilian s reluctance to re
