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New Latinx and Hispanic Studies Titles from Penguin Random House
By Spenser Stevens | March 7 2024 | General
Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction • “A searing account of grief and the quest to bring her sister’s murderer to justice years after the fact” (The Boston Globe), from “one of Mexico’s greatest living writers” (Jonathan Lethem).
- English > Comparative Literature: Latin American and Caribbean > Mexican
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Literature and Drama
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Gender and Violence
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Women's and Gender Studies > Sociology of Women
- Sociology > Criminal Justice > Introduction to Criminology
- Sociology > Family > Sociology of Family
- Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Gender Studies
- Sociology > Social Problems > Social Problems
- Sociology > Social Problems > Violence and Abuse
- Criminal Justice > Introduction to Criminal Justice
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A searing memoir that explores the institutions that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself • “A lushly written, deeply felt investigation into the meanings of home, lineage and selfhood.” —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Body Work and Girlhood
An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur “genius” grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access.
- Anthropology > Cultural and Social Anthropology > Economic Anthropology
- Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of South America
- Anthropology > Peoples and Cultures > Peoples and Cultures of the Americas
- History > Regional History: Latin America and Caribbean > Central America
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American History
- Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
- Political Science > Comparative Politics > Latin American Politics
- Political Science > International Relations > Human Rights
- Political Science > Public Policy and Public Administration > Introduction to Public Policy
- Sociology > Social Problems > Social Problems
- Geography > Human Geography
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In this debut novel, Clyo Mendoza, a young, award-winning Mexican poet and novelist, weaves together multiple narratives into a lyrical, shape-shifting existential reflection on love, violence, and the power of myth.
Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago’s North Shore, a multiracial mom joins an ultraprogressive challenge to the town’s liberal
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