Rise of the Hispanic Market in the United States:  Challenges, Dilemmas, and Opportunities for Corporate Management
Louis E.V. Nevaer (M.E. Sharpe, c2004)
Shelf Number: 658.8348/N4999r

Economist and consultant Nevaer offers an analysis of the Hispanic market in the United States. He begins with an examination of how marketing and merchandising are undergoing fundamental changes in response to Hispanic ascendancy.

Rosa’s New Mexican Table
Roberto Santibanez (Artisan/Workman Pub., c2007)
Shelf Number: 641.5972/SA2356r

The chef of the popular Rosa Mexicano restaurants celebrates the best in Mexican cookery with a tempting assortment of starters, tortilla creations, entrées, side dishes, and desserts.

In the last decade, almost 400 women in Cuidad Juarez have been raped, strangled, mutilated beyond recognition, and left in vacant lots, ditches, or usually the desert. With legal authorities failing to cooperate, the victims’ families have been unable to prosecute the perpetrators, and to date no one has been arrested for the brutal slayings. Noted poet and human rights activist Agosin invokes her poetic muse to accuse thos who allow these crimes to continue and to invoke sympathy and retribution for the victims. In general, her verse is not as combative as one might expect; the imagery is less bitter and the passion more restrained.

Jorge Ramos, Maria Antoinetta Colins, Edward James Olmos, Mario Vargas Llosa, and other influential Latinos living in the United States share stories of May 1, 2006 when immigrants throughout the nation explored their futures in America.