Juan Gonzalez - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries - from the European colonization of the Americas to through the 2020 election. Latinos are now the largest...

Paul Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Book

 Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms...

Carrie Gibson - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Book

Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El...

Marie Arana - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

A sweeping yet personal overview of theLatino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview...

Mike Madrid - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book

An insightful investigation of how and why the two major political parties have failed to appeal to the Latino vote - the second largest ethnic voting group in the country - and the impact it will have on American democracy and politics for decades to come.. In 2020, Latinos became the second...

Felipe, Fernandez-Armesto - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation. The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks...

Noe Alvarez - Catapult
Format: Book

Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument. Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around...

Ingrid Rojas Contreras - Doubleday
Format: Book

From the author of the "original, politically daring and passionately written" (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political...

John Vasquez Mejias - Union Square & Co.
Format: Book

Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the the 1950 insurrection on the island that resulted in 38 deaths and a failed assassination attempt against President Harry...

Jose Olivarez - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love -- self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural -- is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.. Love is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often...

Margarita Engle - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book

From award-winning poet Margarita Engle comes Dreams from Many Rivers, an middle grade verse history of Latinos in the United States, told through many voices, and featuring illustrations by Beatriz Gutierrez Hernandez.From Juana Briones and Juan Ponce de Len, to eighteenth century slaves...

- Phaidon Press
Format: Book

The essential survey showcasing the work of more than 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin AmericaLatin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area's extraordinary art scenes and histories. In an accessible...