Challenging Fronteras

ISBN 10: 0415916089 / ISBN 13: 9780415916080

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging Fronteras
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415916089
• ISBN 13: 9780415916080
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from leading researchers in Latino Studies, include Patricia Zavella, Suzanne Oboler, Alejandro Portes, Clara Rodriquez, Marta Tienda, Nestor Rodriquez, and others.

About the Author

Mary Romero is Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Program at Arizona State University, and is author of Maid in the U.S.A. (Routledge, 1992). PierretteHondagneu- Sotelo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, is the author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiencesof Immigration (1994). Vilma Ortiz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.