-= NMSU PANORAMA - Winter 2006 =- Press Check

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Recent books by NMSU faculty members and alumni:
› Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
› A German P.O.W. in New Mexico
› ¿Qué onda? Urban Youth Cultures and Border Identity
› Quay County, New Mexico 1903-2003: A Pictorial History
› You Did Something Right: The Case for Selective Breeding of Beef Cattle 1950-2000

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States

Edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena González

Oxford University Press 2005

Deena González, a 1974 graduate of New Mexico State University, is co-editor of this four-volume set. The encyclopedia provides information about the historical and contemporary experiences of Latinos and Latinas from various parts of the world. González is professor and chair of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of Refusing the Favor: The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880, published in 1999.

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A German P.O.W. in New Mexico

By Walter Schmid; Translated by Richard Rundell; Edited by Wolfgang T. Schlauch

University of New Mexico Press 2005

Walter Schmid was one of hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war interned in the United States during World War II. He was sent first to POW camps in Oklahoma and was soon transferred to New Mexico in July 1944, where he worked in the Mesilla Valley picking cotton and harvesting melons. Richard Rundell's English translation of a section of Schmid's memoirs begins with his capture in North Africa and his voyage to the United States and ends with his work experience in England, where he was transferred after almost three years of captivity in the United States, and his return to Germany in 1947. Rundell has been a professor of German at New Mexico State University since 1975. He teaches about German language, culture, film and literature.

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¿Qué onda? Urban Youth Cultures and Border Identity

By Cynthia L. Bejarano

University of Arizona Press 2005

From four years of research conducted at a Southwestern high school, Bejarano has produced a study of identity politics among young Latinos and Latinas living near the U.S.-Mexico border. Examining styles of dress, language use, social stratification and other cultural and social phenomena, Bejarano uses border theory "to explain the different paths youths of Mexican descent take toward Mexicana/o, Chicana/o, or mixed identities." Bejarano is an assistant professor of criminal justice at New Mexico State University, where she directs the federal College Assistance Migrant Program. She also is the co-founder of Amigos de las Mujeres de Juárez, an organization dedicated to assisting the women of Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua City in their fight for justice.

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Quay County, New Mexico 1903-2003: A Pictorial History

By Mary Lynn Moncus

Donning Company Publishers 2005

There's plenty of history to go along with the many historical photos in this volume, which is a product of the love Moncus has for the people, towns and land of Quay County, N.M. Moncus is an associate professor emerita of English at New Mexico State University and has three degrees from NMSU. She was co-editor of Quay County, New Mexico 1903-1985 and in 2000 she edited and published a novel by her grandmother, Laura Moncus, titled Sadie Didn't Want to Go Pioneering.

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You Did Something Right: The Case for Selective Breeding of Beef Cattle 1950-2000

By Richard S. "Dick" Kelley

5K Ranch Publishing 2005

Dick Kelley received a bachelor of science in agriculture from New Mexico State University in 1950. Majoring in animal science with a minor in agricultural economics, he turned his degrees to great use in managing and owning beef ranch operations in Florida and Kansas. Over the years Kelley has been on the receiving end of praise from beef cattle experts, and in this book he sets out to detail 50 years of knowledge about raising beef cattle. As he puts it, "This is a story about success and failure. More successes than failures and what we learned in the process."

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Panorama welcomes information on books published by NMSU faculty members and alumni. Information may be sent to panorama@nmsu.edu or mailed to University Communications, MSC 3K, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001.

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