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“norma fuentes”

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  • From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders

    Migrating Women, Class, and Color

    by Norma Fuentes-Mayorga ...
    In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries

    Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration

    by Alexander X. Byrd, Cynthia Feliciano, Norma Fuentes, Alana Hackshaw, David Hernandez, Jamillah Karim, Mariel Rose, Johanna Shih, Zulema Valdez, Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida ...
    The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this volume model, deploy, and explain notions of "borders" and "boundaries" in various ways, but collectively they emphasize the fluidity ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • Sacrificing Families

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  • Undoing Border Imperialism

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  • Economies of Desire

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    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
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  • The Power of Identity

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  • Evo's Bolivia

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  • I'm Neither Here nor There

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  • Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados

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