"Este libro reúne, por primera vez, la correspondencia entre los cuatro principales novelistas del Boom latinoamericano: Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez y Vargas Llosa. Los dos últimos recibieron el Premio Nobel, y los dos primeros lo merecían; a nadie hubiera sorprendido que lo obtuvieran. Esta conversación entre cuatro amigos brillantes y exitosos nos ofrece un acceso sin precedentes a sus relaciones personales y colectivas, con todos sus...

A history of Latino baseball players in the United States, along with individual biographies of current star players, concentrating on hitters.

Accompanied by photography and political art, this powerful compilation of testimonies from longtime organizers, artists, housewives, journalists, students, teachers, and others who participated in the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca provides a raw, honest look at the 2006 Oaxaca protests to the political situation in the Mexican state--protests that would become one of the most important social uprisings of the 21st century.

"This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works,...

"How effective are civil rights organizations in lobbying Congress? They lack the resources of wealthier business-funded lobbying groups. And yet, these groups have been able to influence Congress in order to pass legislation and pressure agencies in the service of minority communities. In No Longer Outsiders: Black and Latino Interest Group Advocacy on Capitol Hill, Michael D. Minta explores the ways that civil rights groups representing a range...