Latin Culture

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.

"It's a genuine pleasure to hear spoken Latin--lots of it, and by many of the great classical authors, including Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil--and to follow the story of Gardini's lifelong infatuation with a language that is nowhere and everywhere in our modern lives... This is an audiobook to...

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...

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...

Break away from diet culture while still honoring your body and incorporating cultural foods in this fresh, expansive guide from the registered dietitian and creator of Your Latina Nutritionist. “Witty and warm, The Latina Anti-Diet is the perfect way to begin to heal your relationship with...

Cuando El chavo del ocho se estrenó en los años 70, el programa ofrecía un retrato poco común de la vida de la clase trabajadora que resonó en la gente de toda América Latina. En el pico de su popularidad, 350 millones de personas lo sintonizaban cada semana. Y durante casi 50 años, el legado de “el chavo” se mantuvo vivo a través de una creciente base de fans multigeneracional y sus retransmisiones diarias. Hasta 2020, cuando El Chavo dejó de emitirse repentinamente.

This updated and expanded edition is the first and only book to offer a leadership model firmly based on the Latino experience and culture. By 2045, Latinos will make up one in four Americans. They are projected to be 78 percent of the new entries into the labor force in the next 10 years.

From the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, a celebration of the women at the heart of Latine families Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental...

What if one month could teach the world a blueprint for joy? In A Country Made of Light, author Elena Caro takes readers on a vivid, heart-opening journey into Colombia’s dazzling December—one of the most spectacular, musical, flavorful, and community-centered Christmas traditions on Earth. From the glow of La Noche de las Velitas, to the music-filled novenas, midnight feasts, nonstop dancing, coastal drums, Andean rituals, Amazonian gatherings, and the world-famous Medellín alumbrados, Caro reveals a Christmas culture where light isn’t decoration—it’s a way of life. Along the ...

From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a guide to revolutionary self-love that can help transform not only your life but the lives of everyone in your community. Almost every Latina has heard the phrase calladita te ves más bonita—you look most beautiful when you are silent. It's a...

From pre-Columbian fires to Michelin-starred kitchens, Salt and Fire tells the epic story of a nation that cooked its way through conquest, slavery, revolution, and rebirth. Blending history, memory, and flavor, this sweeping narrative reveals how Colombia’s identity was forged not just in battles, but in kitchens. Through every era — Indigenous, African, colonial, and contemporary — food becomes both witness and resistance. Follow the scent of ajiaco simmering in Bogotá, taste the Pacific’s secret curries, hear the drums behind the coastal stews, and step inside the coffee farms ...

For centuries, explorers, treasure hunters, and dreamers chased the legend of El Dorado — a golden city hidden in the heart of South America. But the truth was never a city. It was a people. In El Dorado: The Real Story, historian and storyteller Elena Caro reveals the untold history of the Muisca civilization of Colombia — the creators of the ritual that sparked the world’s greatest treasure hunt. Far from a vanished myth, the Muisca were a sophisticated confederation of sun-worshippers, salt traders, and farmers who built a golden world of reciprocity and balance. When the Spanish ...

Abrán González always knew he was different. Called a coyote because of his fair skin, the kid from Barelas found escape through boxing and became one of the youngest Golden Gloves champs. But the arrival of a letter from a dying woman turns his entire life into a lie. The revelation that he was adopted makes him feel like an orphan and sends him on a quest to find his birth father.

This book explores 30 popular folklore myths and characters throughout the Caribbean, what they are known for, how to protect yourself against them and what they look like. Take a walk with me as we explore the folklore characters of the Caribbean. Featured Folklore: Anancy, Buck / Baccoo, Chickcharney, Churile, Ciguapa, Douens, Drums, Fairymaid/Mermaid, Gang Gang Sara, Halfway Tree (Silk Cotton Tree), Heartman, Hummingbirds, Jinn. Jumbee/Duppy, Kanaima, La Diablesse, Lagahoo, Lusca, Malju, Mama D’leau, Massacooramaan, Midnight Robber, Moko Jumbie, MoonGazer/Phantom, Papa Bois, River ...

Beans of Destiny is the untold story of how a humble mountain crop became Colombia’s national soul and a global obsession. From Jesuit missionaries planting the first seeds in the 18th century to Juan Valdez smiling from Times Square billboards, coffee has shaped Colombia’s history in ways few outside the Andes realize. It built towns, financed railroads, fueled wars, and became Colombia’s greatest ambassador to the world. Through crisis and renewal, coffee has remained both mirror and motor of the nation’s destiny. Drawing on history, culture, and human stories, Beans of Destiny ...

Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. In this updated edition of the classic work, Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that caused global prices to plummet to the rise of the Fair Trade movement and the "third-wave" of quality-obsessed coffee connoisseurs.

At the age of 14, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for 20 hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing poverty, long hours of labor, and blatant prejudice.

Build financial literacy, improve your money management skills, and make the dinero work for you with the help of an award-winning Latina Money Expert. In many immigrant households, money isn’t often a topic of discussion, so financial education can be minimal—especially when a family is...

Whispers in the jungle. Screams on the river. Shadows in the mountains. For centuries, Colombia has been a land where myth and reality walk hand in hand. From the mournful cries of La Llorona drifting over midnight rivers, to the mischievous tricks of El Sombrerón, to haunted mansions of the narco era and ghost stories spreading through WhatsApp today — Colombia’s folklore is as alive, dangerous, and enchanting as its landscapes. In Ghosts of the Magdalena: Myths and Legends of Colombia, you’ll journey from the sacred lakes of the Muisca to the bustling streets of Bogotá, from ...

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...