Celebrating Diversity: National Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month

In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Summary taken from book.

Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Summary taken from book.

This book explores the heritage and history of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, and Central and South Americans. Summary taken from book.

Melding history, literature, anthropology, music, culture, and sociology, La Florida is a unique presentation of the Hispanic roots that run deep in Florida's past and present and will assuredly shape its future. Summary taken from book.

This book explores the Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940.

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. Writing Revolution in Latin America is a chronological study of the way revolution and revolutionary thinking is depicted in the fiction composed from the eye of the storm. Summary taken from book.

A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel. Summary taken from book.

This is a fictionalized account of the last days of Simón Bolívar, liberator of five South American countries.

The story of a young girl growing up in one of Chicago's Hispanic neighborhoods.

The story of a slave of mixed heritage looking to take control of her own life.

Drawing on extensive interviews with leaders and participants, Margaret Power tells the story of right-wing women, examining their motives, the tactics they employed, and the impact of their ideas and activity on Chilean society and politics. Summary taken from book.