Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide
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When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Get the Gringo (2012) in Movies
Jul 24, 2020 (Updated Jul 24, 2020)
The plot: A youngster helps an American career criminal (Mel Gibson) learn to survive behind the walls of a brutal Mexican prison.
A good action packed prison survival film.
Under The Mesquite
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When Lupita discovers Mami has been diagnosed with cancer, she is terrified by the possibility of...
Poetry Mexican-American
Man of Fire: Selected Writings
Ernesto Galarza, Rodolfo Torres and Armando Ibarra
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Activist, labor scholar, and organizer Ernesto Galarza (1905-1984) was a leading advocate for...
Best of America: Traditional Regional Recipes: The American Family Cooking Library: 200 Step-by-Step Recipes, Over 900 Photographs
Carla Capalbo and Laura Washburn
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This unique volume represents the wonderfully diverse nature of the American culinary tradition....
Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot: Modern Poetry and the Translation of Influence
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When the sixteen-year-old Octavio Paz (1914-1998) discovered The Waste Land in Spanish translation,...
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
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A Mexican village is at the mercy of Calvera, the leader of a band of outlaws. The townspeople, too...
California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820--1930
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Following the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), lands that had for centuries belonged to New Spain, and...
Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint
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R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has...
