Latino Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Politics and the Art of Commemoration

   Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

   By Katherine Hite

   Series: Interventions

   Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Race in Latino Communities

   Walking the Color Line

   By Atiya Kai Stokes-Brown

   Series: Routledge Series on Identity Politics

   Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the U.S. and have exerted widespread influence in numerous aspects of American culture from entertainment to economics. Unlike Asian, black, white, and Native Americans who are defined by race, Latinos can be of any race and are beginning to shed...

   Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Latino Identity in Contemporary America

   Edited by Martin Bulmer, John Solomos

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This edited collection brings together original research papers that explore an important aspect of race and ethnic studies, namely the processes that are shaping the making of Latina and Latino identities in contemporary America. This is a question that has received much attention in the USA over...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Immigrant Divide

   How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland

   By Susan Eckstein

   Are all immigrants from the same home country best understood as a homogeneous group of foreign-born? Or do they differ in their adaptation and transnational ties depending on when they emigrated and with what lived experiences? Between Castro’s rise to power in 1959 and the early twenty-first...

   Published June 24th 2009 by Routledge