You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered nineteenth-century novelist, broke many of the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Hispanics in the southwestern territories of the United States. Not only was she the first Hispanic novelist to write English, but her courage and resolve took her into the circles of governmental and financial power where very few women had tread before. Conflicts of Interest captures the conflicted personality of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, a woman pulled in different directions by tensions of class, race, gender, and nationality. The trajectory of Ruiz de Burtons life through her correspondence makes for a compelling and revealing ...
Introduction: the Mexican borderlands -- Building the Mexican borderlands -- The making of Baja California's multicultural society -- Revolution, labor unions, and early movements for land reform in Baja California 1910-1930 -- "Land and liberty": conflict, land reform, and repatriation in the Mexicali Valley, 1930-1940 -- Mexicali's exceptionalism -- Conclusion: the "all Mexican" train
None
Loreto: The Future of the First Capital of the Californias is a bilingual (English and Spanish) collection of 17 essays written by scholars from the United States and Mexico that dicusses the historial development as well as challenges that Loreto, Baja California Sure, faces.
The first of an outstanding three-volume history of Baja California Sur, a collaborative effort by scholars of the state university. The first volume is a well organized chronological economic history of the state.
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to two or more peoples of color— Chinese and Mexican, Asian and Black, Native American and African American, South Asian and Filipino, Black and Latino/a and so on. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown addresses questions surrounding the meanings and communication of racial identities in dual or multiple minority situations and the editors highlight the theoretical implications of this fresh approach to racial studies.
Este segundo volumen de la Historia General de Baja California Se ofrece al lector una visión de conjunto de las diferentes formas de organización del poder en la porción meridional de la península de California desde los tiempos prehispánicos hasta nuestros días.El tomo está dividido en cinco partes. En la primera se examinan los diversos temas que tienen que ver con la existencia de mecanismos al interior de las bandas indígenas que permitieron el surgimiento de liderazgos y marcaron ciertos principios de diferenciación social, ambos aspectos en estrecha relación con el proceso de adaptación al medio natural y con el sentido de territorialidad que desarrollaron los indios penins...
Vols. 17-18 cover 1775-1914.