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Resources from outside Oregon

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Books Recommended by Oregon Outreach Staff

Abalos, D.T. (1996). Strategies of transformation toward a multicultural society: Fulfilling the story of democracy. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing.

Axtell, R.E. (1991). Gestures: The do's and taboos of body language around the world. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

Borden, G.A., Conaway, W.A., & Morrison, T. (1994). How to do business in sixty countries: Kiss, bow, or shake hands. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media.

Buan, C.M., & Gamboa, E. (1995). Nosotros: The Latino people of Oregon. Portland, OR: Oregon Council for the Humanities.

Condon, J.C. (1985). Good neighbors: Communicating with the Mexicans. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, Inc.

Crouch, N.(2004). Mexicans and Americans: Cracking the cultural code. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing. For a Webcast of the author's talk at the Library of Congress go to http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3318 . If you have trouble getting to this site, just enter http://www.loc.gov and go to web casts and enter Ned Crouch. That will take you to the Webcast.

Denner, J, & Guzman, B. (2006). Latino Girls: Voices of Adolescent Strength in the United States. New York: New York University Press.

Dresser, N. (1996). Multicultural manners: New rules of etiquette for a changing society. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Fadiman, A. (1998). The spirit catches you and you fall down. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Hall, E.T. (1973). The silent language. New York: Anchor.

Kittler, P.G., & Sucher, K.P. (1997). Food and culture in America: A nutrition handbook. Florence, KY: Wadsworth Publishing.

National Research Council (2006).  Multiple origins, uncertain destinies: Hispanics and the American future.  Panel on Hispanics in the United States. M. Tienda and F. Mitchell, eds. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

Nava, Y. (2000). It's all in the frijoles. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Novas, H. (1998). Everything you need to know about Latino history. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam.

Paz, O. (1985). The labyrinth of solitude; The other Mexico; Return to the labyrinth of solitude; Mexico and the Unites States; The philanthropic ogre. (A collection of works) New York: Grove Press.

Rodriguez, G. (1999). Raising nuestros niñas: Bringing up Latino children in a bicultural world. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Summerfield, E. 1997). Survival kit for multicultural living. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, Inc.

Villaseñor, V. (1992). Rain of gold. New York: Delta.