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"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

"En algunos de sus relatos Gabriel García Márquez habla de un hombre que está muriendo de indigencia en el paraíso. Cualquier colombiano, rico o pobre, puede hoy reconocerse allí."

En la actualidad prevalece la idea de que la historia colonial hispanoamericana y la historia global constituyen áreas de estudio con poca relación, gestadas en circunstancias historiográficas diferentes. La percepción de mundos distantes se magnifica cuando vemos que el espacio hispanoamericano no goza de una agenda propia en los estudios globales; usualmente, se le contextualiza en una literatura con marcada perspectiva eurocéntrica o sinocéntrica. La América española intenta reconocer la especificidad histórica que adquirió este gran espacio en el lento transcurrir del...