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Latino Urban Ethnography and the Work of Elena Padilla
ISBN: 9780252077630 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study reclaims and builds upon the classic work of anthropologist Elena Padilla in an effort to examine constructions of space and identity among Latinos. The volume includes an annotated edition of Padilla's 1947 University of Chicago master's thesis, "Puerto Rican Immigrants in New York and Chicago: A Study in Comparative Assimilation," which broke with traditional urban ethnographies and examined racial identities and interethnic relations. Weighing the importance of gender and the interplay of labor, residence, and social networks, Padilla examined the integration of Puerto Rican...
This study reclaims and builds upon the classic work of anthropologist Elena Padilla in an effort to examine constructions of space and identity among...
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93,01 |
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Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado
ISBN: 9781607320500 / Angielski / Miękka / 421 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's establishment as a state in 1876. This title expands the study of Colorado's past and present by adopting a borderlands perspective that emphasises the multiplicity of people.
Traditional accounts of Colorado's history often reflect an Anglocentric perspective that begins with the 1859 Pikes Peak Gold Rush and Colorado's est...
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119,27 |
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After the Sun Went Down: The True Moore's Ford Story
ISBN: 9781449021665 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evons Carnell has been through HELL. Period. Born and raised into the post-plantation, share-cropper era of the 1940's, she grabs her readers by the hand and takes them on an emotional roller-coaster in this captivating account of classic southern racism and prejudice.
Evons Carnell has been through HELL. Period. Born and raised into the post-plantation, share-cropper era of the 1940's, she grabs her readers by the h...
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50,40 |
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Latino/As in the Media
ISBN: 9780745640075 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera; on the other they contribute to the role of Latina/os as eternal foreigners, having continually to assert their belonging and citizenship. Latina/os and the Media brings together the scholarship of communication studies scholars working on issues of Latinidad and presents it in a coherent, vibrant and accessible form to shed light on the complex relationship between Latina/os and the...
The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lop...
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309,33 |
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Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories
ISBN: 9780299202248 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chavez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author's inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "cronica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Cronicas...
A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chavez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet,...
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63,62 |
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Term Paper Resource Guide to Latino History
ISBN: 9780313379321 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latinos are the largest, fastest growing minority group in the United States, and the ways they have positively impacted our nation are significant and undeniable. This book examines the contributions of Latinos to U.S. history, providing hundreds of possible topics for term papers and research projects along with primary, secondary, web, and multimedia sources of topical information. Subjects such as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); the Bracero Program (1942); the United Farm Workers of America Is Formed (1962); and The Great American Boycott ("A Day Without Immigrants") of 2006... Latinos are the largest, fastest growing minority group in the United States, and the ways they have positively impacted our nation are significant... |
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314,49 |
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Pragmatism in the Americas
ISBN: 9780823233670 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g., William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the Hispanic world. Pragmatism and the Hispanic World examines the intersection between these two traditions, advancing new and unexplored realms of Western philosophy, and uncovering new relationships. It argues that, with respect to philosophical issues, there are fewer rifts and more affinity than is commonly thought between these two worlds. The book will provide an invaluable source for...
In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g...
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386,93 |
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Pragmatism in the Americas
ISBN: 9780823233687 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g., William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the Hispanic world. Pragmatism and the Hispanic World examines the intersection between these two traditions, advancing new and unexplored realms of Western philosophy, and uncovering new relationships. It argues that, with respect to philosophical issues, there are fewer rifts and more affinity than is commonly thought between these two worlds. The book will provide an invaluable source for...
In the last ten years, investigators worldwide have focused on the connections between the philosophy of classical figures in American pragmatism (e.g...
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137,09 |
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Orange County: A Personal History
ISBN: 9781416540052 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part personal narrative, part cultural history--the true story of the man behind Ask a Mexican!" and the incredible place that bore him.
Part personal narrative, part cultural history--the true story of the man behind Ask a Mexican!" and the incredible place that bore him.
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73,17 |
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Of Love and War: 1864: A Civil War Novel for the North
ISBN: 9781452067766 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,79 |
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Mexican Voices of the Border Region
ISBN: 9781592139088 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side |
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352,63 |
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Mexican Voices of the Border Region: Mexicans and Mexican Americans Speak about Living Along the Wall
ISBN: 9781592139095 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side
How the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each side
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132,18 |
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Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz?
ISBN: 9780739146484 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communication, Latina/o Discourse in Vernacular Spaces: Somos de Una Voz? provides the most current work examining the vernacular voices of Latina/os. The editors of this diverse collection structure the book along four topics--Locating Foundations, Citizenship and Belonging, The Politics of Self-Representation, and Trans/National Voces--that are guided by the organizing principle of voz/voces voice/voces]. Voz/voces resonates not only in intellectual...
Taking up the charge to study discourses of marginalized groups, while simultaneously extending scholarship about Latina/os in the field of Communicat...
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563,24 |
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La Voz Latina: Contemporary Plays and Performance Pieces by Latinas
ISBN: 9780252036224 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveying the Latina theatre movement in the United States since the 1980s, "La Voz Latina" brings together contemporary plays and performance pieces by innovative Latina playwrights. This rich collection of varying styles, forms, themes, and genres includes work by Yareli Arizmendi, Josefina Baez, The Colorado Sisters, Migdalia Cruz, Evelina Fernandez, Cherrie Moraga, Carmen Pelaez, Carmen Rivera, Celia H. Rodriguez, Diane Rodriguez, and Milcha Sanchez-Scott, as well as commentary by Kathy Perkins and Caridad Svich on the present state of Latinas in theatre roles."La Voz Latina" expands the...
Surveying the Latina theatre movement in the United States since the 1980s, "La Voz Latina" brings together contemporary plays and performance pieces ...
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509,37 |
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Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador
ISBN: 9780813549354 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everyday Revolutionaries provides a longitudinal and rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. By exploring political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones-a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation-Irina Carlota Silber offers a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization. Silber provides one of the first rubrics for understanding and contextualizing postwar disillusionment, drawing on her ethnographic...
Everyday Revolutionaries provides a longitudinal and rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. By e...
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164,98 |
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Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de la Garza and Manuel Yturri
ISBN: 9781603442435 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexican Texans, fighting for the Confederate cause, in their own words . . . The Civil War is often conceived in simplistic, black and white terms: whites from the North and South fighting over states' rights, usually centered on the issue of black slavery. But, as Jerry Thompson shows in "Tejanos in Gray," motivations for allegiance to the South were often more complex than traditional interpretations have indicated. Gathered for the first time in this book, the forty-one letters and letter fragments written by two Mexican Texans, Captains Manuel Yturri and Joseph Rafael de la Garza, reveal...
Mexican Texans, fighting for the Confederate cause, in their own words . . . The Civil War is often conceived in simplistic, black and white terms: wh...
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122,40 |
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Unpardonable Crimes: The Legacy of Fidel Castro: Untold Tales of the Cuban Revolution
ISBN: 9781426945601 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Unpardonable Crimes: The Legacy of Fidel Castro" presents a series of stories that, although written as fiction, are based on real events told author Celestino Heres by his family and friends. Everyone has a story to tell, and oftentimes there is a story behind a story. Many of the events that actually occurred in Cuba prior to, during, and after the Revolution might never have been made public; this collection attempts to counteract that secrecy. The first story, "From Buchenwald to Connecticut," is the story of Heres's father-in-law, Raul, a jewelry manufacturer in Cuba. "Bitter Victory"...
"Unpardonable Crimes: The Legacy of Fidel Castro" presents a series of stories that, although written as fiction, are based on real events told author...
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104,87 |
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Unpardonable Crimes: The Legacy of Fidel Castro: Untold Tales of the Cuban Revolution
ISBN: 9781426945595 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Unpardonable Crimes: The Legacy of Fidel Castro" presents a series of stories that, although written as fiction, are based on real events told author Celestino Heres by his family and friends. Everyone has a story to tell, and oftentimes there is a story behind a story. Many of the events that actually occurred in Cuba prior to, during, and after the Revolution might never have been made public; this collection attempts to counteract that secrecy. The first story, "From Buchenwald to Connecticut," is the story of Heres's father-in-law, Raul, a jewelry manufacturer in Cuba. "Bitter Victory"...
"Unpardonable Crimes: The Legacy of Fidel Castro" presents a series of stories that, although written as fiction, are based on real events told author...
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59,02 |
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Mythohistorical Interventions : The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies
ISBN: 9780816670871 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mythohistorical Interventions explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Drawing on archival materials and political speeches as well as music and protest poetry, Lee Bebout scrutinizes the ideas that emerged from the effort to organize and legitimize the Chicano movement's aims.
Examining the deployment of the Aztec eagle by the United Farm Workers union, the poem Yo Soy Joaquin, the document El Plan de Santa Barbara, and icons like La Malinche and La Virgen de Guadalupe, Bebout reveals the centrality... Mythohistorical Interventions explores how myth and history impacted the social struggle of the Chicano movement and the postmovement years. Dr...
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107,70 |
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José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race
ISBN: 9780813550640 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexican educator and thinker Jose Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans--a controversial scholar who fostered an alternative view of the future. In Jose Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race, his influential 1925 essay, "Mestizaje" key to understanding the role he played in the shaping of multiethnic America--is for the first time showcased and properly analyzed. Freshly translated here by John H. R. Polt, "Mestizaje" suggested that the Brown Race from Latin America was called to dominate the world, a thesis embraced by activists and scholars north and...
Mexican educator and thinker Jose Vasconcelos is to Latinos what W.E.B. Du Bois is to African Americans--a controversial scholar who fostered an alter...
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137,09 |
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