Restaurantes, Rumba Y Más: A Gringo's Guide to Latino Fort Worth - Tapa blanda

Szok, Peter

 
9780875655987: Restaurantes, Rumba Y Más: A Gringo's Guide to Latino Fort Worth
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ISBN 10: 087565598X ISBN 13: 9780875655987
Editorial: Texas Christian University Press, 2014

Sinopsis

Taking us well off the beaten path, Peter Szok leads readers on a cultural journey that will make your stomach―and heart―hunger for more.

Szok sets the stage by suggesting that Fort Worth is more than just cowboys and world-class museums, but also a city with a rich immigrant heritage. With mouthwatering depictions, he highlights the best Latino restaurants serving foods like birría, cabrito, buche, and pupusas.

Szok visits flea markets, boxing gyms, and tailors and offers insights into musical genres such as banda, tribal, bachata, and norteño. He directs revelers to trendy bars and raucous transvestite shows, and discusses fashion crazes like the recent pointy boot (bota picuda) fad. Throughout he weaves a sense of history, in descriptions of lowriders, barber shops, murals, botánicas, and churches. The book concludes with a calendar of events, including St. Cecilia’s feast day and the Blessing of the Mariachis. Offering so much to explore, A Gringo’s Guide will encourage anyone to fall in love with Fort Worth.

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Acerca del autor

Peter Szok is a graduate of Tulane University, USA, where he received a PhD in modern Latin American history and specialized in ethnicity, nationalism, and popular culture. Szok is an associate professor of history at TCU, USA, where he teaches classes on Afro-Latin American history, indigenous movements, and Central America.

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Editorial
Texas Christian University Press
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
087565598X
ISBN 13 
9780875655987
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Número de páginas
96
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