Latino Perspectives

Meeting its mission to foster scholarship by and about Latinos and the issues that affect them, in 2001 the Institute launched a book series in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame Press. Once a pioneer in Latino studies publishing during the era of Professor Julian Samora, the Press joins with us in revitalizing that tradition by publishing new texts on the cutting edge of scholarship, general works that can be used as college textbooks, and reprints of classics.

Titles in the book series encompasses four research areas:
* Latino spirituality and religion;
* Border affairs, immigration, and globalization;
* Latino arts, culture, and humanities;
* Social sciences and public policy.

The series also includes a general category to allow for future developments, for example, in Latina studies/gender issues and history.

Submissions are welcome. Send inquiries to:
Gilberto Cárdenas
Series Editor
Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame
230 McKenna Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0764.

To order books from Notre Dame Press go to: undpress.nd.edu/order.

New Books in Latino Perspectives, the Institute’s series with the University of Notre Dame Press

Manuel Barajas, The Xaripu Community across Borders: Labor Migration, Community, and Family, second edition
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009)

Barajas presents the first cross-national, comparative study to examine an indigenous Mexican community's experience with international migration and transnationalism. He elaborates how various forms of colonialism, institutional biases, and emergent forms of domination have shaped Xaripu labor migration, community formation, and family experiences across the Mexican/US border for over a century. Of special interest are his interviews within the community and his participant observation in several locations.

Manuel Barajas in associate professor of sociology at California State University, Sacramento.

Raquel R. Márquez and Harriet D. Romo, eds., Transformations of La Familia on the US-Mexico Border
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008)

This book brings together contributions from Las Fronterizas, an IUPLR Working Group of Latina scholars who use their own borderlands backgrounds as a foundation from which to examine the interrelated factors affecting women and families on the border. The chapters employ a range of perspectives, combining demography, history, ethnography, art criticism, economics, and public policy analysis. Census and survey data, life histories, cross-border social and economic relationships, and the perceptions of border residents illustrate the complex interdependence on both sides of the border and show how women and youth are socialized into transnational identities.

Raquel R. Márquez and Harriet D. Romo are associate professors of sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Gerald E. Poyo, Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960–1980: Exile and Integration
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007)

Everyday life for Cubans in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s involved an intimate interaction between commitment to an exile identity and reluctant integration into a new society. Drawing on the personal papers of exiles, their books and pamphlets, newspaper articles, government archives, and personal interviews, Poyo examines the exile and integration processes among Cuban American Catholics. The story is set primarily in Florida but also includes voices of others in the United States, Latin America, and Europe.

Gerald E. Poyo is professor of history at St. Mary’s University and a former Visiting Fellow of the Institute. He is the author and editor of a number of books including With All, and for the Good of All and ¡Presente! US Latino Catholics from Colonial Origins to the Present.

David T. Abalos, Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political, second edition
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007)

This is a revised, updated, and considerably expanded version of Abalos’s 1986 classic text. Using ‘self’ as the starting point from which to understand the political, historical, and religious realms—an approach that provides challenging insights into questions and arguments left untouched by more traditional sociological approaches—Abalos applies the transformation theory to key aspects of Latino history and culture.

David T. Abalos is professor of religious studies and sociology at Seton Hall University. His other publications include The Latino Family and the Politics of Transformation.

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

The Institute for Latino Studies, in conjunction with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame, is pleased to announce the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Named after the late poet from California and author of the award winning collection, The Iceworker Sings, the prize carries a cash award of $1000 and publication by the University of Notre Dame Press. The award is open to any Latino/a poet who has yet to publish a full-length book of poems.