Bestsellers
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Latino Dreams
- Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary
- By: Felisha Powell
- Narrated by: Cass Parrish
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
This innovative study explores how Latino cultural production shapes and challenges the U.S. national imaginary through transcultural exchanges and border-crossing narratives.
By: Felisha Powell
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The Devil's Highway
- A True Story
- By: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,407
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Performance1,247
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Story1,245
This important and timely 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 In May 2001, a group of men...
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My Favorite Author to Listen to
- By C. F. Eastman on 03-08-18
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Defectors
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall285
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Performance267
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Story267
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 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 “A deeply reported, surprisingly personal exploration of a phenomenon...
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Regretting what I taught my kids
- By Anonymous on 10-17-24
By: Paola Ramos
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Harvest of Empire
- A History of Latinos in America
- By: Juan Gonzalez
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall193
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Performance172
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Story172
The first new edition in 10 years of this important study of Latinos in US history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries - from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American...
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The real story behind Immigration
- By Amazon Customer on 11-12-17
By: Juan Gonzalez
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Mexican Magic
- Brujeria, Spells, and Rituals for All Occasions
- By: Laura Davila
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
Algunos nacen con estrella y otros estrellados. This dicho (saying) roughly translates to "Some are born with a star, while others are born starry." It refers to the Mexican belief that good luck is a matter of fate, something you are born with or not. Mexicans attribute their good or bad luck...
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Historical context
- By Jessica on 07-05-25
By: Laura Davila
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Blood in the Fields
- Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
- By: Julia Reynolds
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall629
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Performance565
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Story561
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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horrible narrator
- By RUBEN AGUILAR on 04-09-20
By: Julia Reynolds
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Latino Dreams
- Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary
- By: Felisha Powell
- Narrated by: Cass Parrish
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
This innovative study explores how Latino cultural production shapes and challenges the U.S. national imaginary through transcultural exchanges and border-crossing narratives.
By: Felisha Powell
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The Devil's Highway
- A True Story
- By: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,407
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Performance1,247
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Story1,245
This important and timely 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 In May 2001, a group of men...
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My Favorite Author to Listen to
- By C. F. Eastman on 03-08-18
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Defectors
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall285
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Performance267
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Story267
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 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 “A deeply reported, surprisingly personal exploration of a phenomenon...
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Regretting what I taught my kids
- By Anonymous on 10-17-24
By: Paola Ramos
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Harvest of Empire
- A History of Latinos in America
- By: Juan Gonzalez
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall193
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Performance172
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Story172
The first new edition in 10 years of this important study of Latinos in US history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries - from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American...
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The real story behind Immigration
- By Amazon Customer on 11-12-17
By: Juan Gonzalez
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Mexican Magic
- Brujeria, Spells, and Rituals for All Occasions
- By: Laura Davila
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
Algunos nacen con estrella y otros estrellados. This dicho (saying) roughly translates to "Some are born with a star, while others are born starry." It refers to the Mexican belief that good luck is a matter of fate, something you are born with or not. Mexicans attribute their good or bad luck...
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Historical context
- By Jessica on 07-05-25
By: Laura Davila
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Blood in the Fields
- Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
- By: Julia Reynolds
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall629
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Performance565
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Story561
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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horrible narrator
- By RUBEN AGUILAR on 04-09-20
By: Julia Reynolds
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You Sound Like a White Girl
- The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
- By: Julissa Arce
- Narrated by: Julissa Arce
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall437
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Performance384
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Story383
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation with the author and Paola Ramos, a Vice News journalist, MSNBC Contributor, and author of Finding Latinx. “A love letter to our people - full of fury and passion." - José Olivarez, award-winning poet and author of Citizen...
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Liberal BS
- By Cyndy on 08-01-22
By: Julissa Arce
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When I Was Puerto Rican
- By: Esmerelda Santiago
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall311
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Performance267
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Story266
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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Praise
- By Deborah De Jesus on 04-25-19
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Tías and Primas
- On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us
- By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, Josie Del Castillo
- Narrated by: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance116
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Story116
From the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, a celebration of the women at the heart of Latine families. “This love letter to intergenerational relationships opens every window and door to one’s heart... A healing work of art.” —Yesika Salgado, author of...
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Family
- By aservice on 03-25-26
By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, and others
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Stealing Home
- Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
- By: Eric Nusbaum
- Narrated by: David Owen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall370
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Performance313
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Story311
The "scrupulously detailed" (Los Angeles Times) story of how the fight to build Dodgers Stadium, and transform Los Angeles into a big league city, came at the cost of everyday Angelenos Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond baseball. The hills...
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Once Upon a Time at Dodger Stadium
- By James Gamble on 03-06-21
By: Eric Nusbaum
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America for Americans
- A History of Xenophobia in the United States
- By: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance72
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Story71
This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia...
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Essential to Understanding America
- By Edward Chin-Lyn on 11-09-20
By: Erika Lee
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- By: Paul Ortiz
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall488
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Performance429
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Story424
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was...
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I had to return
- By Andrew Alvarez on 05-19-20
By: Paul Ortiz
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Our Migrant Souls
- A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrated by: André Santana
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance42
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Story42
A new audiobook by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of...
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Plays in the idea of “we are the victims.”
- By Luis F. Ruiz on 02-15-24
By: Héctor Tobar
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Los suicidas del fin del mundo. Crónica de un pueblo patagónico
- By: Leila Guerriero
- Narrated by: Silvana Rabbuffi
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
A fines de los años noventa, en Las Heras, un pequeño pueblo petrolero de la provincia argentina de Santa Cruz con un alto índice de desempleo y sin ningún tipo de futuro para los jóvenes, se produjeron doce suicidios. La mayoría de los muertos...
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Mala elección de lectora
- By Luis E Maurette on 03-20-25
By: Leila Guerriero
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Spare Parts
- Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
- By: Joshua Davis
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall242
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Performance202
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Story202
Joshua Davis's Spare Parts--now a major motion picture--is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and the young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country—even as the country tried to kick them out. Four undocumented Mexican American students...
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American Dream
- By Joselo on 02-25-16
By: Joshua Davis
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Mexican Sorcery
- A Practical Guide to Brujeria de Rancho
- By: Laura Davila
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
Spell work, spiritual cleansing, herbal magic, how to protect against the Evil Eye, and cast, break, and avert hexes and curses. Mexican witchcraft, or brujeria, has long been an integral part of traditional Mexican culture that permeates all strata of social hierarchy, ethnicity, or level of...
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An indepth look
- By Rochester DeWinter on 08-07-25
By: Laura Davila
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The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez
- A Border Story
- By: Aaron Bobrow-Strain
- Narrated by: Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Frankie Corzo
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance69
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Story69
**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019** This program includes a chapter read by the author. What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than...
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Gut wrenching true story of the borderlands
- By Sarah on 09-06-24
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Migrant Heart
- Essays on Identity, Home, and Healing Through Storytelling
- By: Reyna Grande
- Narrated by: Reyna Grande
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
An ambitious memoir in essays by beloved bestselling author Reyna Grande that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. What is the true power of stories? Can they heal the jagged edges of a traumatic childhood? Is the cost of...
By: Reyna Grande
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Brown Enough
- True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
- By: Christopher Rivas
- Narrated by: Christopher Rivas
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance62
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Story62
Brown Enough, Christopher Rivas's first book, is a memoir about what it truly means to be Brown in America. Holding the weight of being a Latino man, Christopher wonders where he falls on the color line, widened through his experience as an ethnically ambiguous actor of color....
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Raw, unfiltered, and beautifully expressed
- By Carolina Acosta on 10-07-24
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Finding Latinx
- In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity
- By: Paola Ramos
- Narrated by: Paola Ramos
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall168
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Performance152
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Story152
Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns—are voices who have been chronically overlooked in...
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Eye opening undestanding!
- By Jeffrey Bruton on 10-27-20
By: Paola Ramos
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Lady Q
- The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
- By: Sonia Rodriguez, Reymundo Sanchez
- Narrated by: Rebecca Mitchell
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall199
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Performance178
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Story180
Offering 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, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs were members of her own. At age five...
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terrible
- By Anonymous on 09-27-17
By: Sonia Rodriguez, and others
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Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro
- Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
- By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating - editor
- Narrated by: Angela Juarez
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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Story7
Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldúa weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on...
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Narration and code-switching
- By Jose Antonio Lucero on 05-24-25
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, and others
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Hunger of Memory
- The Education of Richard Rodriguez
- By: Richard Rodriguez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance69
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Story70
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a...
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His perspective on bilingual education
- By Asuncion Torres on 03-02-24
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The Deportation Machine
- America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
- By: Adam Goodman
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance17
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Story17
The Deportation Machine traces the long and troubling history of the US government's systematic efforts to terrorize and expel immigrants over the past 140 years. This provocative, eye-opening book provides needed historical perspective on one of the most pressing social and political issues of...
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Excellent and Important (and poorly read)
- By Micah D on 10-05-21
By: Adam Goodman
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Undocumented Motherhood
- Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing
- By: Elizabeth Farfán-Santos
- Narrated by: Marisa Blake
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter’s health in the United States....
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A beautifully written glimpse of the many
- By Marquito on 02-13-23
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The Far Away Brothers
- Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
- By: Lauren Markham
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance121
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Story124
The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto...
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A vivid portray of the external and internal challenges immigrants in America face
- By Maria Walts on 01-25-19
By: Lauren Markham
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Chicano Movement For Beginners
- By: Maceo Montoya, Ilan Stavans - foreword
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance32
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Story33
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. Thus, Chicano Movement for Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It...
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perfect for beginners!
- By cynthia on 05-09-21
By: Maceo Montoya, and others
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Anna in the Tropics
- By: Nilo Cruz
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall72
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Performance55
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Story55
This poignant and poetic 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers....
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Amazing performances
- By Kristie on 12-17-08
By: Nilo Cruz
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American Brujeria
- Modern Mexican-American Folk Magic
- By: J. Allen Cross
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance100
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Story100
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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Not the type of book I thought it was, Not for me
- By VanLo on 03-23-22
By: J. Allen Cross
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Inventing Latinos
- A New Story of American Racism
- By: Laura E. Gómez
- Narrated by: Joana Garcia
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance72
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Story72
Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture‚ yet many people instinctively regard them as recent immigrants rather than a longstanding racial group. In Inventing Latinos‚ Laura Gomez illuminates the fascinating race-making‚ unmaking‚ and remaking of...
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mixed reaction
- By david on 09-24-21
By: Laura E. Gómez