Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world ...
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and new norms for racial identity. Eva Marie Garroutte examines the changing processes of racial identification and their implications by looking specif ...
El libro Lo que decimos de ellos tiene por objetivo central analizar los discursos e imaginarios historicos —entendidos como el conjunto de creencias (mitos, simbolos, ideas, etcetera) de individuos y sociedades y como se transmiten en un momento determinado— que describen al Peru y Chile, a partir de la guerra del Pacifico (1879-1883), en la historiografia y los textos escolares peruanos. Una vez decodificados, es decir, descritos y contextua ...
The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and Costa Rica. Others traveled far north, to Mexico, the United States, and Canada in search of safety. Over two million of those who fled Central Americ ...
