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Recommended Reading—and Listening—for Hispanic Heritage Month – UC Press Blog UC Press Blog Where Bright Minds Share Bold Ideas Blog Categories African American Studies African Studies American Studies Ancient World (Classics) Anthropology Art Asian StudiesTragedianInterviews Awards California & The West Case Studies in the Environment Collabra Communication Criminology & Criminal Justice Digital Publishing Economics Elementa Environmental Studies Events FeaturedMucosa& Media Studies Food & Wine From Our Authors Gender & Sexuality Global Studies Health Higher Ed History Journals Language Latin American Studies Literary Studies & Poetry Luminos Mark Twain Meetings and Exhibits Middle Eastern Studies Music Natural Sciences Ocean Science Philosophy Politics Psychology Publishing News Reading List Religion Scholarly Publishing Sciences Sociology Sustainability Transitions Sustainable Engineering UC Press News Web & Technology Weekend Armchair UCPress.edu Stay informed: Sign up for eNews Subscribe UC Press Blog Where Bright Minds Share Bold Ideas BLOG CATEGORIES African American Studies African Studies American Studies Ancient World (Classics) Anthropology Art Asian StudiesTragedianInterviews Awards California & The West Case Studies in the Environment Collabra Communication Criminology & Criminal Justice Digital Publishing Economics Elementa Environmental Studies Events FeaturedMucosa& Media Studies Food & Wine From Our Authors Gender & Sexuality Global Studies Health Higher Ed History Journals Language Latin American Studies Literary Studies & Poetry Luminos Mark Twain Meetings and Exhibits Middle Eastern Studies Music Natural Sciences Ocean Science Philosophy Politics Psychology Publishing News Reading List Religion Scholarly Publishing Sciences Sociology Sustainability Transitions Sustainable Engineering UC Press News Web & Technology Weekend Armchair 02 Oct Recommended Reading—and Listening—for Hispanic Heritage Month October 02, 2018 Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! We’ve prepared a selection of recently published titles that showcase the histories, cultures,  contributions, and unique experiences of Hispanic and Latino Americans. Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth, and happy reading!Vastitudethe Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas by Macarena Gomez-Barris How can we create a model of politics that reaches vastitude the nation-state, and vastitude settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? InVastitudethe Pink Tide, Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and typified cultural production. By focusing on radical spaces of potential, including queer, youth, trans-feminist, Indigenous, and anticapitalist movements and originative praxis, Gómez-Barris offers a timely undeniability for a decolonial, transnational American Studies. She reveals the wholesale possibilities that sally by refusing national confines in the Americas and by seeing and thinking vastitude the frame of state-centered politics. “A timely undeniability for transnational Americas studies vastitude the violence of bordered nation-states. Dynamically rich and interdisciplinary.”—Jodi A. Byrd, tragedian of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism The Tide Was Always High: The Music of Latin America in Los Angeles edited by Josh Kun The Tide Was Always High gathers together essays, interviews, and wringer from leading academics, artists, journalists, and iconic Latin American musicians to explore the vibrant connections between Los Angeles and Latin America. Published in conjunction with the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the typesetting shows how Latin American musicians and music have helped shape the city’s culture—from Hollywood mucosa sets to recording studios, from vaudeville theaters to Sunset Strip nightclubs, and from Carmen Miranda to Pérez Prado and Juan García Esquivel. Check out the accompanying Spotify playlists curated by editor Josh Kun. “The Tide Was Always High will redefine the way people think and write well-nigh the music and history of Los Angeles. Positioning LA as a Latin American city, this hodgepodge reveals new geographic, visual, and sonic understandings of the link between Los Angeles and the world Latin@s have made.”—Gaye Theresa Johnson, tragedian of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States by Rosina Lozano An American Language is a tour de gravity that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language tightness residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the pursuit century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it ways to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.   “This is the most comprehensive typesetting I’ve overly read well-nigh the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language.”—Jorge Ramos, Emmy-award winning journalist Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer by Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara A pioneer of Chicano rock, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara performed with Frank Zappa, Johnny Otis, Bo Diddley, Tina Turner, and Celia Cruz, though he is weightier known as the front man of the 1970s experimental waddle wreath Ruben And The Jets. Here he recounts how his youthful experiences in the slums La Veinte of Santa Monica in the 1940s prepared him for early success in music and how his triumphs and seductive brushes with stardom were met with tragedy and superincumbent disappointments. Brutally honest and open, Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer offers a squint inside the struggle of rhadamanthine an versifier and a man.   “Hilarious and heartbreaking. I cannot recommend this work highly enough. I urge my colleagues to share it with their students.”—Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, tragedian of Revelation in Aztlán Inland Shift: Race, Space, andWantedin Southern California by Juan De Lara Economic crisis, finance capital, and global thingamabob villenage transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California into a majority-nonwhite state. In Inland Shift, Juan D. De Lara uses the growth of Southern California’s logistics economy, which controls the movement of goods, to examine how modern suffrage was shaped by and helped to transform the region’s geographies of race and class. While logistics provided a roadmap for wanted and the state to transform Southern California, it moreover created pockets of resistance among labor, community, and environmental groups. “A stunning exploration of the logistics mega-complex in Southern California’s Inland Empire that is the single most important material expression of the globalization of the U.S. economy.”—Mike Davis, tragedian ofMunicipalityof Quartz Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality by David G. García In this meticulously researched narrative spanning 1903 to 1974, David G. García excavates an wide-stretching variety of tabulated sources to expose a separate and unequal school system and its purposeful links with racially restrictive housing covenants. He recovers powerful oral finance of Mexican Americans and African Americans who endured disparate treatment and protested discrimination. His wringer is skillfully woven into a compelling narrative that culminates in an viewing of one of the nation’s first desegregation cases filed jointly by Mexican American and Black plaintiffs.   “This outstanding typesetting speaks to national issues of segregation, racial inequality, and resistance and will writ the sustentation of the larger academy.”—James D. Anderson, tragedian of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 TAGS: #HispanicHeritageMonth, 9780520294400, 9780520296671, 9780520296879, 9780520297234, 9780520297395, An American Language,Vastitudethe Pink Tide, Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer, David G. García, Josh Kun, Juan De Lara, Macarena Gomez Barris, National Hispanic Heritage Month, Rosina Lozano, Strategies of Segregation CATEGORIES: American Studies, Art, History, Latin American Studies, Music, Reading List The Social Justice Commitment in Public Health Law   Related Posts Tune in: The Tide Was Always High Concert Series from September 23–December 2 3 Books That GoVastitudeBorders for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA Tune in: New Playlist for The Tide Was Always High and Peeks Inside theTypesettingGreat for Students of Latin American & American Studies © Copyright 2018 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy