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    • The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
    • By: Paola Ramos
    • Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • An award-winning journalist's exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics.

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    • The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
    • By: Julissa Arce
    • Narrated by: Julissa Arce
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • Bestselling author Julissa Arce brings listeners a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America....

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    • By: The Great Courses, Khristin Montes
    • Narrated by: Khristin Montes
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In the six lectures of Great Figures of Latino History, art historian and anthropologist Dr. Khristin Montes will introduce you to many of the people that have shaped Latino culture and identity on scales both global and local.

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    • In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
    • By: Paola Ramos
    • Narrated by: Paola Ramos
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Luis Alberto Urrea
    • Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-11
    • Language: English
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    • This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic)....

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    • An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
    • By: T. J. English
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
    • By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob....

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    • The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
    • By: Robert Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Thom Rivera
    • Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus' great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain....

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    • A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
    • By: Héctor Tobar
    • Narrated by: André Santana
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Our Migrant Souls assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino people....

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    • Modern Mexican-American Folk Magic
    • By: J. Allen Cross
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • American Brujeria is about the fascinating blend of American and Mexican folk magic currently used by those living in the US but whose roots are steeped in Mexican culture....

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    • By: Esmerelda Santiago
    • Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
    • Series: Esmeralda Santiago's Memoirs, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • Esmeralda Santiago reminisces about her childhood in Puerto Rico and her early years in Brooklyn as the oldest of seven (soon to be 11) children. Her upbringing is turbulent on account of her parents’ relentless fighting, which only ever seems to stop when they have another baby....

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    • Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
    • By: Julia Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia....

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    • A History of Latinos in America
    • By: Juan Gonzalez
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture - from food to entertainment to literature - is greater than ever....

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    • A New Story of American Racism
    • By: Laura E. Gómez
    • Narrated by: Joana Garcia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • In Inventing Latinos‚ Laura Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making‚ unmaking‚ and remaking of Latino identity that has spanned centuries‚ leaving a permanent imprint on how race operates in the United States today....

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    • America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
    • By: Adam Goodman
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
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    • Exposing the pervasive roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, The Deportation Machine introduces the politicians, bureaucrats, business people, and ordinary citizens who have pushed for and profited from expulsion....

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    • By: Maceo Montoya, Ilan Stavans - foreword
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Chicano Movement for Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia....

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    • Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
    • By: Eric Nusbaum
    • Narrated by: David Owen Nelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills that cradle the stadium were once home to three vibrant Mexican American communities....

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    • A Practical Guide to Brujeria de Rancho
    • By: Laura Davila
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Spell work, spiritual cleansing, herbal magic, how to protect against the Evil Eye, and cast, break, and avert hexes and curses....

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    • The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
    • By: Sonia Rodriguez, Reymundo Sanchez
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • A rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman's struggle to survive the streets but also of her ascent to the top ranks of the new Mafia....

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