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"This second edition adds to the first and only book that offers a leadership model firmly based on the Latino experience and culture. More important than ever before, the expanded and updated edition of The Power of Latino Leadership offers a blueprint for Latinos to lead from their cultural core. Currently 64 million Latinos live in the United States, and it's estimated that by 2060 one-third of the US population will be Latino. Despite Latinos'...
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"Brisma and Kelly, two young Latinas growing up along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, would do anything for each other. They keep each other's secrets, hide from their mothers' chancletas, and ward off creepy neighbors. At the beginning of high school, Brisma falls deeply in love with Brian, the local baseball legend. Always the wallflower to the vibrant and alluring Kelly, Brisma is secretly thrilled to be chosen by Brian, to finally have someone...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino]...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
“Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino]...
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BasicBooks
Pub. Date
1991.
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xii, 208 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Are Hispanics "making it"--Achieving the American dream following the pattern of other ethnic groups? This controversial book shatters the myth that 20 million Hispanics--fast becoming the nation's largest minority--are a permanent underclass. Chavez considers the radical implications for bilingual education, immigration policy, and affirmative action.
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Museum of New Mexico Press
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[2018]
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224 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"This posthumously published bilingual novel by Jim Sagel re-enacts the traditional Christmas play, Los pastores, as the backdrop for a parallel story set in the fictional New Mexican village of San Buenaventura where a young woman has just given birth to a baby boy. The infant is Jesus (Jesus in Los pastores) and his biological mother is Marta (Mary). Sagel informs the reader in the first paragraph that the mother has only twenty-three days to live....
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Histories of Pasadena are rich in details about important citizens, time-honored traditions, and storied enclaves such as Millionaires Row and Lamanda Park. But the legacies of Mexican Americans and other Latino men and women who often worked for Pasadena's rich and famous have been sparsely preserved through the generations--even though these citizens often made remarkable community contributions and lived in close proximity to their employers. A...
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Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how American they actually are. By presenting thirteen riveting oral histories of young, first-generation college...
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Colorado history volume no. 2
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Colorado Historical Society
Pub. Date
1998.
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xix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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2022.
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English
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
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1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
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English
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Latinos, this nation's largest and fastest-growing minority group, are big business. This smart, fast-paced program examines how efforts to profit from this group are shaping the contemporary Latino identity.
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WordFire Press, an imprint of WordFire, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
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341 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Felix Gomez embarks on his wildest adventure yet: back to an alternative past of steam-powered technology, telepathic magic, and deadly intrigue. On a mission to find the daughter of a notorious gangster, Felix follows clues through the reimagined southwest of Aztlan in his quest that takes him to the sex slaves of Isla Tiburon - Shark Island - the fortress home of a twisted evil genius. To solve this mystery, Felix must survive a gauntlet of murderous...
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The University of Arizona Press
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2017.
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xxi, 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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English
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Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics offers the first thorough exploration of Latino/a superheroes in mainstream comic books, TV shows, and movies--Provided by publisher.
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