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Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Arrangement is by title.

At risk; Latino children's health.

Ed. by Rafael Pérez-Escamilla and Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez.
Arte Público Press, ©2011    294 p.    $25.95    RJ102
978-1-55885-708-7

Pérez-Escamilla (epidemiology and public health, Yale School of Public Health) and Melgar-Quiñonez (human nutrition, Ohio State U.) compile 10 articles that examine the maternal, child, and youth issues that affect the health of Latino children in the US. Specialists in public health, psychology, nutrition, and medicine from the US address health topics such as the effectiveness of community health workers in prenatal care, breastfeeding, the influence of parental feeding styles on the eating behaviors of children, the role of television viewing and physical activity, lack of access to healthy foods, violence-related injuries and motor vehicle accidents, the causes and adverse effects of obesity and preventive school nutrition programs, an economic analysis of treating and preventing type 2 diabetes, and substance abuse. No index is supplied. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Crossing borders; personal essays.

Troncoso, Sergio.
Arte Público Press, ©2011    201 p.    $16.95    PS3570
978-1-55885-710-0

In the 16 personal essays collected here, Troncoso (author of the award-winning The Last Tortilla and Other Stories) reflects on the physical, cultural, linguistic, and intellectual borders he has crossed in his life. Troncoso, a Harvard graduate, was raised in a poor Mexican-American family on the Mexican border in Texas. He writes of Latino identity, coping with his wife's illness, raising his sons, his relationship with his own father, and accepting his wife's Jewish heritage. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

A voice of my own; essays and stories.

Hinojosa, Rolando.
Arte Público Press, ©2011    140 p.    $19.95    PS3558
978-1-55885-712-4

Hinojosa (creative writing, U. of Texas-Austin) is author of the 15-volume Klail City Death Trip series of novels. In this collection of 15 essays and four stories written between 1982 and 2009, he reflects on his bicultural experiences growing up on the Texas-Mexico border, memories of his family, and issues of assimilation and discrimination. He also discusses his decisions on whether to write in English or Spanish, dealing with writer's block, and the development of Chicano literature. Four of the essays and two of the stories are in Spanish. There is no subject index. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)