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The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720
R. Douglas Cope
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Wisconsin Press
In this distinguished contribution to Latin American colonial history, Douglas Cope draws upon a wide variety of sourcesâincluding Inquisition and court cases, notarial records and parish registersâto challenge the traditional view of...
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Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (The American Presidents)
John S. D. Eisenhower, Arthur M. Schlesinger
Times Books
Times Books
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation’s highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier’s soldier, a man who lived up to his...
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Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities (Objects/Histories)
Laura E. Pérez
Duke University Press
Duke University Press
In Alma Lopez’s digital print Lupe & Sirena in Love (1999), two iconsâthe Virgin of Guadalupe and the mermaid Sirena, who often appears on Mexican lottery cardsâembrace one another, symbolically claiming a place for same-sex desire...
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Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an...
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences: her childhood...
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Chicano Popular Culture: Que Hable el Pueblo (The Mexican American Experience)
Charles M. Tatum
University of Arizona Press
University of Arizona Press
Over the past several decades, Mexican Americans have made an indelible mark on American culture through the music of bands such as Santana and Los Lobos, films such as Zoot Suit, and a wide range of literature, such as Sandra Cisneros's The...
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