by Bob Barner
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Preschool – 3
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN-13: 978-0823422142
Follow two children in this bilingual picture book as they celebrate their ancestors on Día de los Muertos. The youngsters offer marigolds, sugar skulls and special bread, and make delicious foods all in honor of their relatives who have passed away. By spreading petals from the marigolds, they guide the dead home to join in the festivities. Finally, after singing and dancing, it’s time for bed. Bob Barner’s collages incorporate the traditional symbols of Día de los Muertos.His poetic text is in both English and Spanish. In addition, an author’s note provides additional information on the holiday.
by Luis San Vicente
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten – 2
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN-13: 978-0938317678
On Day of the Dead, the skeletons jump for sheer joy. They’ve been cooped up the whole year, and now they’re ready to party. Watch the calaveras shake, rattle and roll as they celebrate the biggest event of the graveyard’s social calendar! Mexico’s Day of the Dead fascinates kids, whether for its joyful celebration or its traditions. With fantastic illustrations and a wild and fanciful poem, San Vicente captures the spirit of this holiday. A short and fun essay directed toward young readers explains this important Mexican holiday, and the fun things kids can do to join in the festivities.
by Tony Johnston and Jeanette Winter
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten – 3
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0152024468
Above a small town in Mexico, the sun rises like a great marigold, and one family begins preparations for an annual celebration, Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead. Mamá is in the kitchen making empanadas. All the children gather around, hoping for a taste, but Mamá said they would need to wait. The family’s uncles have been picking fruits like bright oranges, red apples and gold tejocotes long before today. Soon they will go out into the night, join their neighbors and walk to the graveyard to welcome the spirits of their loved ones home again.
by Janice Levy
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Preschool – 3
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0807535172
It’s Día de los Muertos! It’s time to celebrate! In this bilingual book, a young girl is busy helping her family prepare to honor those who have died. First, she goes with her mama to the market to buy pan de muerto. Then she lays a path of marigold petals with her papa. But mostly, she thinks of and misses her abuelito. And when she sees the butterflies fly through the sky, she knows that his spirit is with them. Written in both Spanish and English, this book includes activities and recipes for a Day of the Dead celebration.
by Susan Bibler Coutin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0822361442
Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the U.S. during the 1980–1992 civil war. Because of the violence they left behind and their uncertain legal status in the U.S., many grew up with distant memories of El Salvador and a sense of disjuncture in their adopted homeland. Through interviews, Coutin examines how they sought to understand and overcome the trauma of war and displacement through recording community histories, advocating for undocumented immigrants, forging new relationships with the Salvadoran state, and, for those deported from the U.S., reconstructing their lives in El Salvador.
by Alfred C. Stepan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0691632070
After writing about the military in Brazil, Alfred C. Stepan was aware that military rule “was only a part of a larger question concerning the role of state as a major, ‘autonomous,’ actor in society.” Although the state’s role in society has expanded since the 1930s, its independent effect on social structure and change has been given little weight in modern political theories. To bring theory more into line with reality, Stepan proposes a new model of state autonomy, which he shows to be particularly well suited for understanding political developments in the Iberian countries and their former Latin-American colonies.
by Barbara Sutton
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN-13: 978-1479829927
In the 1970s and early 80s, military and security forces in Argentina hunted down, tortured, imprisoned, and in many cases, murdered political activists, student organizers, labor unionists, leftist guerrillas, and other people branded “subversives.” This period was characterized by massive human rights violations, including forced disappearances. For women who endured countless forms of physical, sexual and emotional violence in clandestine detention centers, the impetus to keep quiet about certain aspects of captivity has been particularly strong. Barbara Sutton draws upon a wealth of oral testimonies to place women’s bodies and voices at the center of the analysis of state terror.
by Nancy Postero
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0520294035
In 2005, Bolivians elected their first indigenous president, Evo Morales, who promised to overturn neoliberalism and inaugurate a new decolonized society. In “THE INDIGENOUS STATE,” Nancy Postero examines the successes and failures that have followed in the 10 years since Morales’ election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models. By tracing the political origins and practices of decolonization among activists, government administrators and ordinary citizens, Postero makes an important contribution to our understanding of the meaning and impact of Bolivia’s indigenous state.
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