Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.
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Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S.

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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 f...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published January 15th 1997 by Routledge (first published 1997)
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Great book.

Have gone through the book and would recommend one particularly touching chapter 11 "Life as the Maid's Daughter."

For a non-fiction work - it was emotional as heck.

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