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Decoding "Despacito" : an oral history of Latin music
Cobo, Leila
Paper Book
A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music. Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the biggest...
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Gold, oil, and avocados : a recent history of Latin America in sixteen commodities
Robinson, Andy
Paper Book
The past decade has seen major political upheaval in Latin America - from Brazil to Chile to Venezuela to Bolivia - but to understand what happened, ask first where your quinoa and lithium batteries came from. In this fascinating history, roving reporter Andy Robinson takes readers from the salt...
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Inventing Latinos : a new story of American racism
Gómez, Laura E.
Paper Book
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America's racial order? In...
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The crusades of Cesar Chavez : a biography
Pawel, Miriam
Paper Book
National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistWinner of the California Book AwardA searching portrait of an iconic figure long shrouded in myth by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of an acclaimed history of Chavez's movement.Cesar Chavez founded a labor union,...
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Our migrant souls : a meditation on race and the meanings and myths of "Latino"
Tobar, Héctor
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Named One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2023 One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 | A Top Ten Book of 2023 at Chicago Public Library A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer...
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Life of Che : an impressionistic biography
Oesterheld, H. G.
Paper Book
Life Of Che was originally released as part of a graphic biography series in January 1969, it came out in Argentina only a year after Ernesto 'Che' Guevara had died and reached an audience beyond comics readers. In the 1970s, the military government raided its publisher, destroying the means to...
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Latinoland : a portrait of America's largest and least understood minority
Arana, Marie (Writer)
Paper Book
"A perfect representation of Latino diversity" (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in "a work of prophecy, sympathy,...
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