books by Alfredo Mirande

books by Alfredo Mirande

books:

Alfredo Mirande

The Stanford Law Chronicles: Doin' Time on the Farm
Alfredo Mirande

University of Notre Dame Press, 2005

"Alfredo Mirandé answers the question: What happens when a Latino heart ventures into the Anglo male head that is the Stanford Law School? 'En la tierra del ciego, el tuerto es rey' [In the land of the blind, the one-eyed person is king]. " ?W. Frank Newton, President, Beaumont Foundation of America; former Dean of Texas Tech School of Law and ...

Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture

Alfredo Mirande

Westview Press, 1997

Macho vs. Hombre: or Will the Real Latino Men Please Stand?
Doctor Mirande goes boldly where no Chicano has gone before: to provide a positive revisionist analysis of the term "macho." Using anecdotal evidence from his own childhood to flesh out his sociological study, Mirande shows that he is not an apologist, but rather an ...

La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman
Alfredo Mirande, Evangelina Enriquez

University Of Chicago Press, 1981

La Chicana is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as members of a colonized culture, and as victims of a cultural heritage dominated by the cult of machismo . Tracing the role of Chicanas from pre-Columbian society to the present, the authors reveal the ...

Gringo Justice

Alfredo Mirande

University of Notre Dame Press, 1990

Book Review
Alfredo Mirandé is Professor of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has formerly been the chair of the Chicano Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Social Relations departments, and taught at Texas Tech University School of Law. ...

Chicano Experience: Chicano Studies
Alfredo Mirande

University of Notre Dame Press, 1989

Exposing the inadequacies of the present structure for social science research on Chicanos, Mirande demonstrates how the conventional immigrant group model of society, with its focus on assimilation into mainstream American culture, cannot apply to Chicanos. He supports his theory with a detailed examination of Chicano social history and culture ...