{"product_id":"us-central-americans-karina-oliva-alvarado-9780816534067","title":"U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility--yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. \u003ci\u003eU.S. Central Americans\u003c\/i\u003e explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile much has been written about U.S. and Central American military, economic, and political relations, this is the first book to articulate the rich and dynamic cultures, stories, and historical memories of Central American communities in the United States. Contributors to this anthology--often writing from their own experiences as members of this community--articulate U.S. Central Americans' unique identities as they also explore the contradictions found within this multivocal group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking from within Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Maya communities, contributors to this critical study engage histories and transnational memories of Central Americans in public and intimate spaces through ethnographic, in-depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews, as well as literary and cultural analysis. The volume's generational, spatial, urban, indigenous, women's, migrant, and public and cultural memory foci contribute to the development of U.S. Central American thought, theory, and methods. Woven throughout the analysis, migrants' own oral histories offer witness to the struggles of displacement, travel, navigation, and settlement of new terrain. This timely work addresses demographic changes both at universities and in cities throughout the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eU.S. Central Americans\u003c\/i\u003e draws connections to fields of study such as history, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology, cultural studies, and literature, as well as diaspora and border studies. The volume is also accessible in size, scope, and language to educators and community and service workers wanting to know about their U.S. Central American families, neighbors, friends, students, employees, and clients.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeisy Abrego \u003cbr\u003e Karina O. Alvarado \u003cbr\u003e Maritza E. C疵denas \u003cbr\u003e Alicia Ivonne Estrada \u003cbr\u003e Ester E. Hern疣dez \u003cbr\u003e Floridalma Boj Lopez \u003cbr\u003e Steven Osuna \u003cbr\u003e Yajaira Padilla \u003cbr\u003e Ana Patricia Rodr?uez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karina Oliva Alvarado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816534063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816534067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Karina Oliva Alvarado","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988293124351,"sku":"9780816534067","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d27e5f10-615e-448e-b05e-171ce67c5a4c.jpg?v=1683293715","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/us-central-americans-karina-oliva-alvarado-9780816534067","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}