Moving Beyond Borders examines the life and accomplishments of Julian Samora, the first Mexican American sociologist in the United States and the founding father of the discipline of Latino studies. Detailing his distinguished career at the University of Notre Dame from 1959 to 1984, the book documents the history of the Mexican American Graduate Studies program that Samora established at Notre Dame and traces his influence on the evolution of border studies, Chicano studies, and ...

Unprecedented levels of wealth, technology and institutional capacity can forge a just, peaceful and ecologically resilient future. However, the authors argue, social polarization, geo-political conflict and environmental degradation are threatening the long-term well-being of humanity and the planet. Global Sustainability explores the alternative futures that could emerge from the resolution of these antagonisms.Based on extensive international and interdisciplinary resear...

What if the blood spilled along the Rio Grande was never about bandits, border raids, or revolution… —but about a secret powerful men were willing to bury beneath history itself?From 1914 to 1919, as the world burned in the fires of the First World War, the American Southwest became the stage for a hidden war few historians dare to speak of. German agents moved through Mexico in the shadows. Oil empires, political power brokers, corrupt lawmen, and foreign operatives collided along...

Although a well-known phenomenon in the U.S., street gangs and other violent and criminal groups_including racist groups_exist also in European cities and countries, and are of increasing concern in global law enforcement. The eminent contributors to this volume present valuable new data on European youth gangs, describing important characteristics of these groups, and their similarities and differences to American gangs. Their findings from the Eurogang Research Program compare European a...