Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten – 2
Publisher: Children’s Book Press
ISBN-13: 978-0892392193
Young Jorgito has come to live in the Mission District of San Francisco, but he hasn’t forgotten the unique beauty of El Salvador. In his first collection of poems for children, Jorge Argueta evokes the wonder of his childhood in rural El Salvador, a touching relationship with a caring father, and his confusion and delight in his new urban home. We glimpse the richness of Jorgito’s inner world and dreams—the movie in his pillow. Artist Elizabeth Gómez perfectly captures the indigenous beauty of El Salvador, the sadness of the war, and the joy of family reunion in San Francisco.
by Alberto Blanco
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 1 – 2
Publisher: Children’s Book Press
ISBN-13: 978-0892391561
No one knows what happened to the bell in the church tower. Did the priest sell the bell to a foreign collector? Did revolutionaries melt it down and turn the metal into cannons? Or was it magic? Whatever the reason, the town hasn’t been the same since. To heal the pain of this loss, Angel, the young kite maker, creates a beautiful kite that shows the whole town—including the missing church bell. After an exciting chase and a lonely night on a cold mountaintop with his three loyal dogs, Angel succeeds in bringing back the bell to his town.
by W. Nikola-Lisa
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Preschool – 4
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
ISBN-13: 978-1584300281
Geographically, America is made up of opposites: our land boasts majestic high mountains, as well as vast lowlands. Beyond its landscape, however, America is also a land of contrasts: we are a rich nation, and yet there are so many people who are poor. The America of this book, rendered with imagination and vision by twelve outstanding artists from diverse backgrounds, is the America that our children see around them. “AMERICA: A BOOK OF OPPOSITES/UN LIBRO DE CONTRARIOS” is a visual celebration of America and a challenge to our children to cherish it, because they will one day inherit it.
by Harriet Rohmer
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten – 3
Publisher: Children’s Book Press
ISBN-13: 978-0892391097
One afternoon, three brothers leave their village to hunt wari, the wild pig their people depend on for food, and discover a magical vine that can make them invisible—but only if they promise never to sell the meat they hunt and never to hunt with guns. All is well until European traders arrive to buy the precious wari meat—and the brothers forget the promises they made so long ago. This is a Miskito version of the classic folk theme of how the very thing that gives you power can turn against you if not respected and used properly.
by Nina Gerassi-Navarro
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0822323600
“PIRATE NOVELS” examines an overlooked genre to reveal how history and fiction blend to address important issues of nation building in nineteenth-century Spanish America. In the figure of the pirate (heroic to some, criminal to others) Nina Gerassi-Navarro reveals a character that came to embody the spirit of emerging nationhood and the violence associated with attaining it. She traces the historical icon of the pirate before exploring a group of nineteenth-century Mexican, Colombian and Argentine novels. Gerassi-Navarro argues that the novels’ authors were less interested in accurate representations than in using their narratives to discuss the future of their countries.
by Lynn Stephen
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0822355342
An uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in 2006. APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca’s government for six months. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television stations appropriated by APPO, shared at public demonstrations, debated in homes and in the streets, and disseminated around the world via the Internet. Participants were imprisoned, tortured and killed. Lynn Stephen emphasizes the crucial role of testimony in human rights work, indigenous cultural history, community and indigenous radio, and women’s articulation of their rights to speak and be heard.
by Alexandra T. Vazquez
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0822354581
“LISTENING IN DETAIL” is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States and other locations. It is also a critique of efforts to define “Cuban music” for ethnographic examination or market consumption. Contending that the music is not a knowable entity but a spectrum of dynamic practices that elude definition, Alexandra T. Vazquez models a new way of writing about music and the meanings assigned to it. “LISTENING IN DETAIL” is a method invested in opening up, rather than pinning down, experiences of Cuban music.
by Laura Briggs
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0822394952
In “SOMEBODY’S CHILDREN,” author Laura Briggs examines both the social and the cultural forces—poverty, racism, economic inequality and political violence—that have shaped transracial and transnational adoption in the United States in particular during the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. Focusing particularly on the experiences of those who have lost their children to adoption, Briggs analyzes the circumstances under which African-American and Native mothers in the United States and indigenous and poor women in Latin America have felt pressed to give up their children for adoption or have lost them involuntarily.
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