Challenging Fronteras

by Mary Romero (Editor), Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Editor), Vilma Ortiz (Editor)

Challenging Fronteras reflects an important new wave of research that moves beyond sweeping generalizations that treat Latinos as a monolithic cultural group. This anthology focuses on the diversity of Latino experiences by providing historical specificity and cutting-edge research that employs the conceptual and analytical tools of social science. Contributors, selected from leading researchers in Latino Studies, include Patricia Zavella, Suzanne Oboler, Alejandro Portes, Clara Rodriquez, Marta Tienda, Nestor Rodriquez, and others.

Genres: Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not gonna lie, I side-eyed Challenging Fronteras for the first hundred pages because everybody and their mom was raving about it. Then Mary Romero pulled the rug out and I got it. Hype can be annoying, but this one earns most of it. Read it if you trust your own taste, skip it if you hate being late to the party.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. hits you right in the gut because Romero, Mary shows how quickly human solidarity breaks down when survival incentives are manipulated from above.

[Frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book.

Have gone through the book and would recommend one particularly touching chapter 11 "Life as the Maid's Daughter."

For a non-fiction work - it was emotional as heck.

- Frank