ilość książek w kategorii: 1999
Leaving Little Havana: A Memoir of Miami's Cuban Ghetto
ISBN: 9781940761046 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Revolution uprooted six-year-old Cecilia from her comfortable middle-class Cuban home and dropped her into the low-income Miami neighborhood of Little Havana. Her philandering father all but abandoned his family to focus on his mistress and rebuilding his career, chasing the American promise of wealth and freedom from the past. Her mother spiraled into madness trying to hold the family together and get him back. Neglected and trapped, Cecilia rebelled against her conservative heritage and embraced the 1960s counter-culture, seeking...
Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Revolution uprooted six-year-old Cecilia from her comfortable middle-class Cuban home and...
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86,09 zł |
Reimagining National Belonging: Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780816531011 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reimagining National Belonging is the first sustained critical examination of post civil war El Salvador. It describes how one nation, after an extended and divisive conflict, took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. In tracing state-led efforts to promote the concepts of national culture, history, and identity, Robin DeLugan highlights the sites and practices as well as the complexities of nation-building in the twenty-first century.
Examining events that unfolded between 1992 and 2011, DeLugan both illustrates the... Reimagining National Belonging is the first sustained critical examination of post civil war El Salvador. It describes how one nation, after an...
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157,04 zł |
Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue: New Conversations in Public Sociology
ISBN: 9780739176177 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy's call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls "public sociology." The essays in Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue: New Conversations in Public Sociology bridge the gap between scholars and undocumented persons themselves in an interdisciplinary and vibrant dialogue. The conversations include sociologists, lawyers, and community and religious leaders, alongside first-hand...
Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Buraw...
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474,01 zł |
Shame and Pride in Narrative: Mexican Women's Language Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border
ISBN: 9781137348586 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives.
This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that fr...
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195,42 zł |
Strange Knowledge: Stories from Desert Flower
ISBN: 9781478711285 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rosi Talavera was abused, pregnant, angry, and poor. Then she registered for Alison Reichle's "Women And Power" class at Desert Flower, a wonderful small school for pregnant and parenting teens. Many of the young women were quite intelligent but generally had not been academic achievers. Reichle had seen a pervasive, almost crippling lack of self-esteem in the girls she taught, chaining them to a cycle of poverty not only for themselves but for their children. In an attempt to reform these dismal prospects and raise aspirations, Reichle researched and developed a women's studies class...
Rosi Talavera was abused, pregnant, angry, and poor. Then she registered for Alison Reichle's "Women And Power" class at Desert Flower, a wonderful sm...
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81,92 zł |
El Camino del Heroe, Sonador de Lluvia y Granizo: Elementos Que Conforman El Mundo de Los Graniceros a Traves de Una Perspectiva Arquetipica
ISBN: 9781490713694 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alrededor del volcan Popocatepetl, los tiemperos, cuidadores del temporal o graniceros incursionan cada noche al mundo onirico para comunicarse con el volcan manteniendolo contento, propiciando la lluvia y apaciguando el granizo que dana sus cosechas. Para los graniceros, la comunicacion con el volcan es de vital importancia, sosteniendo una relacion casi personal con el, considerandolo un ser vivo consciente con el cual comulgan dia a dia. A traves de las narraciones de los suenos de Don Epifanio, el lector se adentrara en el inconsciente colectivo que permea el universo de los graniceros,...
Alrededor del volcan Popocatepetl, los tiemperos, cuidadores del temporal o graniceros incursionan cada noche al mundo onirico para comunicarse con el...
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119,04 zł |
The Pena-Lara Story: Revisited
ISBN: 9781491863039 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After discovering additional information pertaining to his paternal side of the family, author Christopher G. Pena revised his original book to provide the reader with a richly detailed account of each member of the Pena-Lara family, along with their respective spouses. Both highly informative and engaging, The Pena-Lara Story: Revisited retraces the family's roots that began in New Spain (Mexico), including the military exploits of the family's patriarch, Lt. Col. Jose Emeterio Pozas, who served under Spain and Mexico. In addition, the story includes an account of the family's life in...
After discovering additional information pertaining to his paternal side of the family, author Christopher G. Pena revised his original book to provid...
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148,88 zł |
The Pena-Lara Story: Revisited
ISBN: 9781491863428 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After discovering additional information pertaining to his paternal side of the family, author Christopher G. Pena revised his original book to provide the reader with a richly detailed account of each member of the Pena-Lara family, along with their respective spouses. Both highly informative and engaging, The Pena-Lara Story: Revisited retraces the family's roots that began in New Spain (Mexico), including the military exploits of the family's patriarch, Lt. Col. Jose Emeterio Pozas, who served under Spain and Mexico. In addition, the story includes an account of the family's life in...
After discovering additional information pertaining to his paternal side of the family, author Christopher G. Pena revised his original book to provid...
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102,45 zł |
Amazonian Geographies: Emerging Identities and Landscapes
ISBN: 9781138798342 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)national borders and diverse ecological and cultural landscapes. It is often presented as a seemingly homogeneous place: a lush tropical jungle teeming with exotic wildlife and plant diversity, as well as the various indigenous populations that inhabit the region. Yet, since Conquest, Amazonia has been linked to the global market and, after a long and varied history of colonization and development projects, Amazonia is peopled by many distinct...
Amazonia exists in our imagination as well as on the ground. It is a mysterious and powerful construct in our psyches yet shares multiple (trans)natio...
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266,04 zł |
Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
ISBN: 9780226212845 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernandez reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America's great cities. Through their experiences in the city's central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernandez demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans... Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia... |
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140,05 zł |
Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas
ISBN: 9781469618951 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified. In Fighting Their Own Battles, Brian Behnken explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizational differences that all worked to separate Mexican Americans and blacks.
Behnken further... Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the...
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217,23 zł |
Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood
ISBN: 9781469618630 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic and mixed-income neighborhoods still harbor the signs of continued, systemic racial inequalities. Drawing on deep ethnographic and other innovative research from "Creekridge Park," a pseudonymous urban community in Durham, North Carolina, Mayorga-Gallo demonstrates that the proximity of white, African American, and Latino neighbors does not ensure equity; rather, proximity and equity...
The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated...
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203,91 zł |
100 Questions and Answers about Hispanics and Latinos
ISBN: 9781939880444 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One Hundred Questions and Answers About Hispanics and Latinos" is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural competence. It focuses on the diversity of the largest ethnic group in the United States. This guide has sections on Hispanic and Latino identity, geography, language, religion, social norms, politics, immigration and deportation, education, work, money, families, culture, health and food. It explains terms such as Chicano, Tejano and Texano, Boricua and deals with deportation and immigration. The guide is intended for people in business, schools,...
"One Hundred Questions and Answers About Hispanics and Latinos" is part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural compe...
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77,09 zł |
Anforas Vinarias de Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis (S. I A.C.- I D.C.): Caracterizacion Arqueometrica
ISBN: 9781905739691 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary archaeological and archaeometric study of the wine amphorae produced in Hispania Citerior (Tarraconensis, in Augustus' reorganisation) between the first century BC and the first century AD. Wine production expanded in this area at the beginning of the first century BC, as new Roman towns were founded and new farms or villae gradually emerged in rural areas. However, it was during Augustus' reign that wine production and trade reached their peak. The study aims to shed new light on the composition of the wine amphorae produced in this...
This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary archaeological and archaeometric study of the wine amphorae produced in Hispania Citerior (Tar...
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242,39 zł |
Keeping it Real A Teacher's Stories
ISBN: 9781478734598 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You don't know teenagers until you listen to them. I am a Puerto Rican woman, working in the Chicago School system since 1968. I have met thousands of students who have changed the way I teach, because of the way my students have affected me. As a Christian, I have embraced God's guidance and leadership, when working with the students He has given me to work with. Keeping it Real a Teacher's Stories, contains over sixty different stories, that highlight students from three inner city High Schools in Chicago. The stories reflect the young Hispanic youth of the 1970s to the 1990s. These...
You don't know teenagers until you listen to them. I am a Puerto Rican woman, working in the Chicago School system since 1968. I have met thousands of...
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96,42 zł |
Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
ISBN: 9781469621883 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for...
The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political tur...
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217,23 zł |
The Forgotten Ones: A Sociological Study of Anglo and Chicano Retardates
ISBN: 9780292744820 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Forgotten Ones, originally published in 1972, Anne-Marie Henshel examines the lives of a group of persons living within the community who had been diagnosed at one time or another as mentally retarded. The analysis makes use of three sets of comparisons--Anglo and Chicano, married and single, male and female--and the subjects in each category are analyzed in terms of personal characteristics, employment situation, material possessions, living conditions, family background, social activities, and contacts with "officials"--including the police. In addition, Henshel gives... In The Forgotten Ones, originally published in 1972, Anne-Marie Henshel examines the lives of a group of persons living within the com... |
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127,88 zł |
Where the Cross Meets the Street: What Happens to the Neighborhood When God Is at the Center
ISBN: 9780830836918 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cross means more than we've let it mean. Proclaiming the gospel and forming the faithful: these are the most practiced disciplines of the evangelical church. As central as these disciplines are, however, they are only part of the story. And as Christian Community Development Association CEO Noel Castellanos has learned over a lifetime of ministry and mission, the neglect of the gospel's full implications for the world has contributed to the erosion of communities and the languishing of poor and other marginalized people. In Where the Cross Meets the Street Castellanos shows the strengths...
The cross means more than we've let it mean. Proclaiming the gospel and forming the faithful: these are the most practiced disciplines of the evangeli...
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73,36 zł |
Language, Immigration and Labor: Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
ISBN: 9781137301017 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Language, Immigration, and Labor explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Focussing its ethnographic research on Arizona, a state that intensely regulates transnational migrants and Spanish speakers through its immigration and language policies, this book examines the realities of intercultural communication in fast-paced job negotiations between undocumented workers and their employers. The research reveals the ways that dominant discourses reverberate down to localized...
Language, Immigration, and Labor explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speakin...
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390,87 zł |
Cuban Women and Salsa: To the Beat of Their Own Drum
ISBN: 9781137382818 / Angielski / Twarda / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected. To explore how female singers negotiate issues of gender, race, and nation through their performances, Poey engages with the ways they problematize the idea of the nation and facilitate their musical performances' movement across multiple borders.
Salsa is both an American and transnational phenomenon, however women in salsa have been neglected. To explore how female singers negotiate issues of ...
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195,42 zł |