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Latino urban ethnography and the work of Elena Padilla

Table of Contents: “…Rúa ; "White" Puerto Rican migrants, the Mexican colony, "Americanization," and Latino history / Nicholas De Genova ; Gendering "Latino public intellectuals": Personal narratives in the ethnography of Elena Padilla / Ana Y. …”
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Barry Goldwater and the remaking of the American political landscape

Table of Contents: “…The conscience of a conservationist : Barry Goldwater and the Colorado River / Andrew Needham -- Drafting a movement : Barry Goldwater and the rebirth of the Arizona Republican Party / Elizabeth Tandy Shermer -- Southwestern strategy : Mexican Americans and Republican politics in the Arizona borderlands / Micaela Anne Larkin -- Getting to Goldwater : Robert A. …”
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Hoein' the Short Rows /

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Texas baptistry paintings : landscape, doctrine, mysticism / Jack Welch -- Celebrations of the dead : merging traditions in the Spanish Southwest / John O. West -- Mexican-American lime kilns in West Texas : the limits of folk technology / Joe S. …”
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Gone to Texas a history of the Lone Star State / by Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Spanish Texas in the Age of Revolutions, 1779-1821 76 -- 5. Mexican Texas, 1821-1835 100 -- 6. The Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 128 -- 7. …”
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Courting democracy in Mexico party strategies and electoral institutions / by Eisenstadt, Todd A.

Table of Contents: “…A Quarter Century of "Mexicanization": Lessons from a Protracted Transition -- App. …”
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Hoein' the Short Rows /

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Texas baptistry paintings : landscape, doctrine, mysticism / Jack Welch -- Celebrations of the dead : merging traditions in the Spanish Southwest / John O. West -- Mexican-American lime kilns in West Texas : the limits of folk technology / Joe S. …”
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Sovereign bodies citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world /

Table of Contents: “…Territorializing the nation and "integrating the Indian": "Mestizaje" in Mexican official discourses and public culture / Ana Maria Alonso -- Violence, sovereignty, and citizenship in postcolonial Peru / Finn Stepputat -- Sovereign violence and the domain of the political / Partha Chatterjee -- Confinement in the imagination: sovereignty and subjectivity in a quasi-state / Yael Navaro-Yashin -- Naturing the nation: aliens, apocalypse, and the postcolonial state / Jean Comaroff and John L. …”
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The religious history of American women reimagining the past /

Table of Contents: “…Nadell - Little slices of Heaven and Mary's candy kisses: Mexican American women redefining Feminism and Catholicism / Kristy Nabhan-Warren.…”
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Postnational musical identities cultural production, distribution, and consumption in a globalized scenario /

Table of Contents: “…Madrid -- Quest for the local : building musical ties between Mexico and the United States / Helena Simonett -- Assimilation, reclamation, and rejection of the nation-state Chicano musicians / Steven Loza -- Rockin' la frontera : Mexican rock, globalization, and national identity / Greg Schelonka -- Before and after samba : modernity, cosmopolitanism, and popular music in Rio de Janerio at the beginning and end of the twentieth century / Cristina Magaldi -- The "Afro-colombianization" of hip-hop and discourses on authenticity / Chris Dennis -- Transnational soundscapes : ambient music and bossatr��onica / Denilson Lopes.…”
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Depression research in nursing global perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Farhood -- Chronic stress conditions do explain posttraumatic brain injury depression / Esther Bay, Ned Kirsch, and Brenda Gillespie -- The relationship between maternal and child mental health in Mexican immigrant families / Diane B. McNaughton ... …”
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Reframing Latin America a cultural theory reading of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Ching, Erik Kristofer

Table of Contents: “…Testimonial Literature -- Celsa's World: Conversations with a Mexican Peasant Woman / Thomas Tirado -- Some Closing Comments.…”
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Gangster tour of Texas by Baker, T. Lindsay

Table of Contents: “…Bonnie and Clyde slept here : on the trail of the Barrow Gang -- Four brothers in crime : the Newton Boys, express car and bank robbers of Uvalde -- The Southern Pacific payroll robbery in El Paso : an attempted heist, the murder of an innocent man, and an international prisoner exchange -- Becky Rogers, the flapper bandit -- The Stanton frame-up : killing blameless men for a bounty -- The Santa Claus Bank Robbery -- Captain Charlie and the Rum King of San Antonio -- The Urschel kidnapping : Machine Gun Kelly's foray into Texas -- The Texas and Pacific mail robbery in Fort Worth : robbery, cold-blooded murder, and incarceration on Alcatraz -- The unsolved murder of Frank Nand Singh: immigrant smuggling on the Mexican border in the 1930s -- The Post morphine ring : dope dealing at the edge of the Caprock -- The greatest medical charlatan of them all : Dr. …”
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Social anxiety symptoms, causes, and techniques /

Table of Contents: “…Assimilation and social anxiety in undocumented mexican immigrant families / Martica Bacallao, Paul R. …”
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Sexual inequalities and social justice

Table of Contents: “…: confronting sexual and gender inequality in HIV prevention work / Héctor Carrillo -- Circuit culture : ethnographic reflections on inequality, sexuality, and life on the gay party circuit / Christopher Carrington -- Confesiones de mujer : the Catholic Church and sacred morality in the sex lives of Mexican immigrant women / Gloria González-López -- Disability and sexuality : toward a constructionist focus on access and the inclusion of disabled people in the sexual rights movement / Russell P. …”
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Computer-mediated communication linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Deuel -- Cyberfeminism / Kira Hall -- Computer-mediated conversations as a new dimension of inter-cultural communication between East Asian and North American college students / Ringo Ma -- Perceptions of American culture : the impact of an electronically-mediated cultural exchange program on Mexican high school students / Mary Elaine Meagher and Fernando Castaños -- Visible conversation and academic inquiry : CMC in culturally diverse classroom / Gregory G. …”
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Beyond cloth and cordage archaeological textile research in the Americas /

Table of Contents: “…Hattori, and Amy J. Dansie -- The Mexican connection : a study of sociotechnical change in perishable manufacture and food production in prehistoric New Mexico / D. …”
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A companion to Luis Buñuel

Table of Contents: “…The complicit eye: directorial and ocular paradigms in Luis Buñuel's Mexican films and interdisciplinary visuality (1940s and 1950s) / Erica Segre -- Out of place, out of synch: errant movement and rhythm in Buñuel's Mexican comedies / Tom Whittaker -- Susana, aka Demonio y carne: melodrama and the voluptuosity of destruction / Maria Pilar Rodriguez -- Young outlaws and marginal lives in Latin American cinema: the landmark of Los olvidados / Ana Morana -- Strange passions. …”
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Policing pleasure sex work, policy, and the state in global perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : sex work and the politics of public policy / Susan Dewey and Patty Kelly -- International trends in the control of sexual services / Michael Goodyear and Ronald Weitzer -- Into the galactic zone : managing sexuality in neoliberal Mexico / Patty Kelly -- Sex work and the state in contemporary China / Tiantian Zheng -- Smart sex in the neoliberal present : rethinking single parenthood in a Mexican tourist destination / Dawn Pankonien -- On the boundaries of the global margins : violence, labor and surveillance in a Rust Belt topless bar / Susan Dewey -- The virtues of dockside dalliance : why maritime sugar girls are safer than urban streetwalkers in South Africa's prostitution industry / Henry Trotter -- "Their own way of having power" : female adolescent prostitutes' strategies of resistance in Cape Town, South Africa / Zosa De Sas Kropiwnicki -- Hata watufanyeje, kazi itaendelea [No matter what they do to us, work must continue] : everyday negotiation of state regulation among female sex workers in Nairobi, Kenya / Chimaraoke Izugbara -- Prostitution in contemporary Rio de Janeiro / Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette and Ana Paula da Silvia -- Prevailing voices in debates over child prostitution / Heather Montgomery -- Organizational challenges among male sex workers in Brazil's tourist zones / Gregory Mitchell -- "What is the use of getting a cow if you can't make any money from it?" …”
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Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? Looking Over the Long Run /

Table of Contents: “…What Human Heights Can Explain about the Evolution of Living Standards and Inequality in Latin America: the Case of Mexican Females and Males, 1850-1992 -- Chapter 5. …”
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Public opinion in state politics

Table of Contents: “…examining the correlates of state-level confidence in the federal government / by Paul Brace and Martin Johnson -- State residency, state laws, and public opinion / by Barbara Norrander and Clyde Wilcox -- Mexican-American and Cuban-American public opinion: differences at the state level?" …”
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