New Books in Latino Studies
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression" (NYU Press, 2020)
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
Jia Lynn Yang, "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924–1965" (Norton, 2020)
Yang recounts the personalities and debates that brought about the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, which forms the foundation for modern U.S. immigration policy...
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist" (U Texas Press, 2020)
Orozco traces the life of Adela Sloss-Vento, a twentieth-century Mexican American woman civil rights activist in Texas...
David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality" (U California Press, 2018)
García makes a substantial contribution to the history of segregation in the US by examining its implementation and preservation in the city of Oxnard, California from 1903 to 1974...
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
John Weber, "From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2015)
Weber discusses migrant agricultural labor, immigration policy, and the long-term impacts of the labor relations model that developed in South Texas during the early twentieth century...
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
How does the world of book reviews work?
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, "Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City" (Basic Books, 2019)
Sandoval-Strausz ties together a magnificent story of Latinos migrating to Chicago and Dallas, and the positive effect immigration and cultural heritage has on urban America...
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