Reviews for Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political, Second Edition

The average rating for Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political, Second Edition based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-19 00:00:00 Stefanie Gladysz Seems like issues like these are getting more complicated, more scrutiny, and more "back to basics" study just to have some common language to discuss what we think we know about these human relations in context. I've assigned Healey, along with some primary source readings, for a few years now as he does a remarkable job synthesizing the history and nature of both group and individual identity and differences. As typical of the "race and ethnic relations" field, and to separate sociology (too much) from anthropology, the content is US/West-centric but has a decent number of global connections including US immigration issues in the context of global migration. (I think the field is starting to get global, finally, as the first so-titled book on "global racism" has just come out: Race and Power: Global Racism in the Twenty First Century). I predict "global racism" as a growth industry. I know this is a textbook. Sorry about that. However, it's cheap and is basically "cliff notes" from several hundreds of books pulling from across social and behavioral sciences on...you got it...."race, ethnicity, gender, and class"! Get it if you need it.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-18 00:00:00 Dimosthenis Tassonis This is a good collection of essays on bicultural identities in the United States written by an impressive list of female intellectuals, writers, artists, and I believe there was one teacher in there. Yeah for teachers! Sometimes the writing was not top-notch, but the conversations that these women are having with themselves and with their readers are extremely important and raise essential questions about culture, identity, and what it means to be "American." In any collection of essays or stories, some are going to stand out more than others. My personal favorites were the essays by Lan Tran, Emiene Shija Wright, Laura Fokkena, and Melissa Secola. Personally, I am so happy that this book exists, and I applaud Angela Jane Fountas (the editor and one of the writers) for putting it together. I look forward to using these stories in my future high school literature and ESOL classes.