A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans–mostly women and children who were US citizens–were forced to relocate across the southern border.
From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico.…
Chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids–and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.
Winner, 2026 PROSE Award for Best Book in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers, Finalist of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Award in the Political and Social Sciences Category, by the FOREWORD Reviews, Winner of the 2025 Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction, by the FOREWORD Reviews
Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up hundreds of people in a single day.…
A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood.…
Longlisted, 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Growing up in Puerto Rico, Patricia Coral was surrounded by women who fought for their needs amid the demands of domesticity and who were dismissed and judged when they rejected any predetermined paths on an island that itself has never been free.…
This volume gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became United States citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) and whose ancestors had resided in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, and Colorado for hundreds of years prior to the Mexican-American War.…
A collection of personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, Voices of the Border brings us closer to this community of people and their strength, love, and courage in the face of hardship and injustice. Chapter introductions provide readers with a broader understanding of their experiences and the consequences of public policy.…
Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-2016), a prominent Latina writer, was, among various recognitions, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1989 first novel, The Line of the Sun (Georgia); awarded the coveted O. Henry Prize for her short story “The Latin Deli” in 1994; and inducted into the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2010.…
Whether at UFW picket lines in California’s Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities.…
A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers
No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From “The Road Not Taken” to “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do.…
“Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.”–Galway Kinnell on presenting the Wallace Stevens Award…
A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans–mostly women and children who were US citizens–were forced to relocate across the southern border.
From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico.…
A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans–mostly women and children who were US citizens–were forced to relocate across the southern border.
From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico.…
