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Maria de Los Angeles Torres

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Connection to Illinois: María de Los Angeles Torres is director and professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Biography: In addition to being the director and professor of Latin American and Latin studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Maria is a co-Principal Investigator for another on Youth Politics in the Age of Globalization, and was Co-Pi for a National Science Research Foundation Project: Civic Engagement in Three Latino Neighborhoods.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Email: torresma@uic.edu
Website: http://www.uic.edu/las/latamst/directory/torres.shtml
Maria de Los Angeles Torres on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=maria+++de+los+angeles+torres


Selected Titles

Citizens in the present :
ISBN: 9780252094910 OCLC: 851154450

University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL : 2013.

This innovative comparative study provides nuanced accounts of the personal experiences of young people who care deeply about their communities and are actively engaged in a variety of public issues.

In the land of mirrors :
ISBN: 0472087886 OCLC: 665827958

University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor : ©1999.

The lost apple :
ISBN: 0807002321 OCLC: 51615198

Beacon Press, Boston : ©2003.

 

 

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