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The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation
Leo R. Chavez
Stanford University Press, 2008
From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigrant rights, the United States has witnessed a surge of involvement in immigration activism. In The Latino Threat , Leo R. Chavez critically investigates the media stories about and recent experiences ...
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The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement
Susan Ferriss, Ricardo Sandoval, ...
Harvest/HBJ Book, 1998
Cesar Chavez Merits a National Holiday !
"The Fight in the Fields" compelled me to recognize that Cesar Chavez is arguably the greatest humanitarian in US history. He tirelessly and peacefully campaigned on behalf of underpaid and overworked farmworkers and migrants who were forced to toil amidst toxic ...
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The Raw Food Gourmet: Going Raw for Total Well-Being
Gabrielle Chavez
North Atlantic Books, 2005
Great book!
I love this cookbook! It was very difficult to imagine giving up cooked/processed foods like Mac & Cheese, or pizza, but this cookbook offers many ways to satisfy cravings! The recipes are super-easy, and tasty too!
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Haunted House Halloween Handbook
Jerry Chavez
McFarland & Company, 1997
Got me started, hard to stop.
I've been building a haunted house with a church group for maybe 5 years running. The youth won't let me stop! Every year I get a call asking if I'll help with the haunted house, both from the participants and the patrons. Everybody loves it!
OK, so the book ...
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Real World Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Real World)
David Blatner, Conrad Chavez, ...
Peachpit Press, 2007
Best There Is
There's nothing else out there that comes even close to this book as an encyclopedic reference to Photoshop CS3. Losing Bruce Fraser is a terrible blow to all of us who've relied for decades on his ability to make complicated subjects understandable, but David Blatner ...
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Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century
Randy Shaw
University of California Press, 2008
Cesar Chavez is the most prominent Latino in United States history books, and much has been written about Chavez and the United Farm Worker's heyday in the 1960s and '70s. But left untold has been their ongoing impact on 21st century social justice movements. Beyond the Fields unearths this legacy, and describes how Chavez and the UFW's imprint ...
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Ruben Martinez
Picador, 2002
Brilliant
As the U.S. Congress pushes forward with their plans to create a three layered fence across the entire length of the U.S.-Mexican Border, thousands of illegal migrants cross over each day through the porous border. Ruben Martinez's work, "Crossing Over", begins with a ...
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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
Leo R. Chavez
Wadsworth Publishing, 1997
Best ethnography on undocumented aliens ever written
Anthropologist Leo Chavez presents a very descriptive and detailed account that takes readers into the lives and experiences of illegal immigrants living and working in the farms and orchards of San Diego County. Chavez avoids the technical and complex jargon so common ...
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Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
Kathleen Krull
Harcourt Children's Books, 2003
Si Se Puede
Let's begin by saying that the drawings are super and captivating. Yuyi Morales creates characters that show emotion and the result is a drawing of emotion from the young reader. As the title implies this is the story of Cesar Chavez who many adults came to know about ...
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Best Hikes With Dogs: North Carolina (Best Hikes With Dogs)
Karen Chavez
Mountaineers Books, 2007
Very informative
This is a great book for hiking with your dog on trails in the western and eastern parts of North Carolina. This book is a part of a series by Mountaineer books and gives great details about elevation, water, trail difficulty, etc. I would recommend this book to ...
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Hugo Chavez: The Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
Richard Gott
Verso, 2005
A remarkable account of an extraordinary leader
A very well written book that reviews the life and achievements of one of the most controversial leaders of our time. Hugo Chavez is a remarkable revolutionist who the world is paying. This book reveals why the world needs to pay attention to the extraordinary ...
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The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela
Eva Golinger
Olive Branch Press, 2006
Superb study of the US state's illicit intervention in Venezuela
Eva Golinger, an American-Venezuelan lawyer and graduate of New York Law School, has produced a remarkable book based on documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act. They show how the US state has schemed incessantly to overthrow Venezuela's President ...
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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader (Latin America Otherwise)
Duke University Press, 2007
Women?s migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert ...
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Hugo!: The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
Bart Jones
Steerforth, 2008
Power to the people, right on
Journalist Bart Jones's detail-laden HUGO! tells the story of Venezuela president Hugo Chavez, the complete story that America's corporate "news" media ignores. And reading the HUGO! passage regarding the Venezuelan people's demand for Chavez's release after moneyed ...
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Chavez Ravine: 1949
Don Normark
Chronicle Books, 2003
California noir
Nestled in the hills between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena is Chávez Ravine, site of Dodger Stadium and its acres of parking lots. Few baseball fans here could tell you that long before the Dodgers left Brooklyn, Chávez Ravine was the home of three communities of ...
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