Bøger i Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition serien

What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. This work makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an ""antebellum,"" agrarian social order that predates the United States, also examining five novels and autobiographies.

Features the voices of the author's mother and several other family members and friends, seated at their kitchen tables, to share the grassroots world view of these working-class Mexican and Mexican American women. This work demonstrates that, in the kitchen, women assert their sazon (seasoning), not only in their cooking but also in their lives.

The ethnic makeup of the American population is rapidly changing. In this volume, John Francis Burke offers a mestizo theory of democracy and traces its implications for public policy. Burke analyzes democratic theory and multiculturalism to develop a model for effectively dealing with cultural diversity.