Product Description: This unique compilation of essays and entries provides critical insights into the Latino/a experience with the U.S. criminal justice system.• Topical essays that provide context to major contemporary issues, such as immigrants and crime, drugs, youth, U...read more

Product Description: During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective minority delegations both in Congress and in state legislatures. This trend has been particularly evident in the growing political presence of Latinas, yet scholars have offered no clear explanations for this electoral phenomenon—until now...read more

Product Description: “Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os...read more

Product Description: Every businessperson, from the boardroom to the mom-and-pop retailer, knows that without customer growth, there is little hope of business growth. In the United States today, the most growth is coming from customers of Hispanic origin and projections are that the trend will continue...read more

Product Description: An account of the Hispanic population?s growth and the changing face of America from world-renowned journalist Geraldo Rivera?now updated with a new Foreword. Since his infamous confrontation with Bill O?Reilly on The O?Reilly Factor, Emmy® award winner Geraldo Rivera has examined what makes the issue of illegal Hispanic immigration so complex...read more

Product Description: A rare, unflinching look at one of today’s most important issues—from one of today’s most well-known journalists. In this insightful, well-researched book, Peabody and Emmy® Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera examines the growth of the Hispanic population in the U...read more

Product Description: The Other Latinos addresses an important topic: the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, the book brings together essays by a number of accomplished scholars...read more

Product Description: These readers, designed to give students a deeper taste of special topics in criminal justice, include free access to InfoTrac College Edition. The timely articles are selected by experts in each topic from within InfoTrac College Edition.

A leading personality in Spanish-language television presents a powerful collection of true-life stories and profiles that paint a vivid portrait of the Latin American immigrant experience, revealing the reasons for their immigration, their dreams, their dealings with racism, and their goals for the future. Reprint.

Product Description: Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of ‘Latin America’ and the ‘United States’. This landmark volume presents key readings that collectively examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political integration of Latina/os across the Americas, thereby challenging the barriers between Latina/o Studies and Latin American/Caribbean Studies...read more

Product Description: The essays gathered here discuss theoretical and policy issues and themes such as the political and economic context of migration, job competition, labor organizing, changing ethnic and "race" relations, immigrant women in the economy and contemporary immigration politics and contribute to our understanding of the historical and contemporary dimensions of Asian and Latino migration in a changing global economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)