"In this book, award-winning photographer Miguel Gandert records the sacred rituals and dances of the mestizo peoples of the upper Río Grande in 130 exquisite black-and-white photographs. Included are images of the two great Indo-Hispano regional traditions, the Matachines conquest dance drama, complete with monsters and bull, and the multifaceted Comanches celebration, with its equestrian victory play and boisterous dances. The image a ..."
"In this book, award-winning photographer Miguel Gandert records the sacred rituals and dances of the mestizo peoples of the upper Rio Grande in 130 exquisite black-and-white photographs. Included are images of the two great Indo-Hispano regional traditions, the Matachines conquest dance drama, complete with monsters and bull, and the multifaceted Comanches celebration, with its equestrian victory play and boisterous dances. The image an ..."
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away(1st Edition) Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramon A. Gutierrez Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 1991 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-1832-5, ISBN: 0-8047-1832-6
"Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 Ramón A. Gutiérrez.
placed within the political context of gifts as diplomatic gestures that guaranteed
blessings and peace. The Europeans understood the ... On December 4, 1598,
Captain Don Juan de Zaldivar and 31 soldiers, en route to the Zuni pueblos, had
stopped at Acoma for provisions. Zaldivar and his men were greeted at about four
in the afternoon by a large number of t ..."
""The New Latino Studies Reader "is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of what it s like to be a Latino in the United States. With the reader, students explore the sociohistorical formation of Lati ..."
Decline of the Californios(1st Edition) A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 by Leonard Pitt, Ramon A. Gutierrez Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21958-8, ISBN: 0-520-21958-9
"In his enduring study of Spanish-speaking Californians - a group that includes both native-born Californians, or Californios, and immigrants from Mexico - Leonard Pitt charts one of the earliest chapters in the state's ethnic history, and, in the process, he sheds light on debates and tensions that continue to this day. In a new foreword for this edition, Ramon A. Gutierrez discusses the shaping and reception of the book and also views ..."
""This Field Guide to White Supremacy illuminates the long and complex career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and across impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those ..."
"Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage is a compendium of articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the United States. The anthology functions to acquaint both expert and neophyte with the work that has been done to date on this literary history, to outline the agenda for recovering the lost Hispanic literary heritage and to discuss the pressing questions of canonization, social class, gender and identity ..."
"This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view."
"The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a quarter-century of fieldwork went into her 1939 encyclopedic two-volume work, Pueblo Indian Religion. The author gives an integrated picture of the complex religious and social life in the pueblos, including Zuni, Acoma, Laguna, Taos, Isleta, Sandia, ..."
"Jazz funerals in New Orleans, Halloween parades in Greenwich Village, harvest rituals, Easter pilgrimages, and folk pageants all serve to reaffirm the cultural vitality of ethnic communities and simultaneously permit them to challenge the established order and beliefs. The twelve essays in this volume explore a range of cultural traditions, including those of African Americans, Hispanics, Filipinos, West Indians, rural whites, and conte ..."
""This Field Guide to White Supremacy illuminates the long and complex career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and across impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those ..."
"... Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2003); Illona Katzew, Casta Painting: Images of Race
in Eighteenth Century Mexico (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). 11.
Magnus Mörner, Race Mixture in the History of Latin America (Boston: Little,
Brown, 1967); Ann Twinam, Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor,
Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish Amer ..."
"Although many factors shape this educational reality for Latina/o students, this
chapter will consider one critical point in the educational pipeline—the role of
Advanced Placement courses as one ofthe curricular options that impact college
admissions. We begin by examining the ... Of those one hundred students, fifty-
three are expected to drop out at some point in the K-12 educational pipeline,
and only forty-seven will graduate f ..."
"Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral scie ..."