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Day of the Dead is a holiday when families celebrate their loved ones who have died. Learn all about the customs of this holiday.

Describes a range of Mexican festivals and holidays. Includes a calendar of selected fiestas celebrated throughout the Mexican year.

Follows an Hispanic American family in a small New Mexican community as they prepare for and celebrate the nine-day religious festival which occurs just before Christmas.

"Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor--an attractive married woman and mother--while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks...

New Mexico is in the middle of a dreaded dry year, and yet an old, blind cowman named Eagle Strange, living in retirement on his range Big Springs with his only daughter, Memory, is unaffected by the drought until sheep threaten to invade his stronghold.

Explores the culture of Mexico, including religions, holidays and festivals, arts, food and leisure activities.

A young Mexican American from California learns about her heritage and celebrates the holiday with her friends, family, and community.

This book looks at twenty individuals and their contributions to the music and dance of our grandparents and those antepasados who celebrated and socialized and continued the traditions with family and their communities throughout our culturally righ region. Hilos Culturales, over the past twelve years, has awarded/recognized individuals of New Mexico and Colorado who have "distinguished themselves and excelled as folk musicians or folk dancers of...

Discover Brazil, China, India, Italy, Mexico, and South Africa through the eyes of kids living there.