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RACE AND ETHNICITY / LATINO AND HISPANIC STUDIES

FORTHCOMING Latinos and

Understanding Latinas at Risk
Latino History Issues in Education,
Health, Community,
Excavating the Past, and Justice
Examining the Present
2 VOLUMES | GABRIEL GUTIÉRREZ,
PABLO R. MITCHELL EDITOR
This Latino history textbook is “ Recommended.
an outstanding reference source Undergraduates and general
GREENWOOD readers.
December 2017, 320pp, that covers many different GREENWOOD ”
6 1/8x9 1/4 Latinos groups within a single January 2015, 828pp, 7x10 —Choice, July 1, 2015
Print: 978-1-4408-4168-2 comprehensive narrative. Print: 978-0-313-39925-1
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00 $189.00, £146.00, €172.00 This two-volume collection of essays
eBook: 978-1-4408-4169-9 FEATURES eBook: 978-0-313-39926-8 addresses the Latino/a experience
• Provides information that in present-day America, covering six
is accessible to a general student audience, supplying a major areas of importance: education, health, family, children,
comprehensive narrative history that covers various Latino teens, and violence.
groups along with profiles of notable Latinos from every era

PABLO R. MITCHELL is associate dean of the College of Arts GABRIEL GUTIÉRREZ, PhD, is director of the Center for the
and Sciences as well as professor of history and comparative Study of the Peoples of the Americas (CESPA) and professor of
American studies at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH. Chicano/a studies at California State University, Northridge.

Latin Music Zoot Suit Riots
Musicians, Genres, ROGER BRUNS
and Themes The Zoot Suit Riots in 1943 and

2 VOLUMES | ILAN STAVANS, the infamous Sleepy Lagoon
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF murder trial of the preceding
“ A comprehensive year represent a turning point
in the cultural identity and
resource that provides
several paths for historical experience of Mexican
entrance into this subject. Americans in the United States.
”
Recommended. GREENWOOD This engaging study of these
GREENWOOD —Booklist, December 1, 2014 February 2014, 198pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 regrettable events provides
July 2014, 923pp, 7x10 Print: 978-0-313-39878-0 context for understanding the
Print: 978-0-313-34395-7 This definitive two-volume $37.00, £29.00, €34.00 continuing battles in the 21st
$189.00, £146.00, €172.00 encyclopedia of Latin music eBook: 978-0-313-39879-7 century over immigration policy
eBook: 978-0-313-34396-4 spans 5 centuries and 25 and race relations.
countries, showcasing musicians FEATURES
from Celia Cruz to Plácido Domingo and describing dozens of • Connects the racially and socioeconomically motivated
rhythms and essential themes. events of the World War II-era 1940s to the Chicano
movement of the 1970s and the current battles over
FEATURES
immigration legislation, allowing readers to see the recurring
• Covers nearly every conceivable aspect of Latin music across theme in American history
almost 1,000 pages of insightful, authoritative information

ROGER BRUNS is a historian and former deputy executive
ILAN STAVANS, PhD, is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin director of the National Historical Publications and Records
American and Latino culture at Amherst College.
Commission at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

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