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Book Chicanitas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cheech Marin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-05-01
  • ISBN : 9780989114806
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Chicanitas written by Cheech Marin and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection {size doesn't matter}" showcases 70 paintings by 29 painters represented in Cheech Marin's noted collection of Chicano art. Marin, the entertainer who is well known for his work in movies, television, and improvisational comedy, has been acquiring art for more than 20 years, and he has amassed one of the renowned collections of Chicano art in private hands. Marin's most recent passion is collecting small paintings averaging 16 inches square and smaller in size. In contrast to other works in his collection representing and promoting the Chicano art movement of the mid-60's and 70's, the content of many of these small paintings leans more towards the artist's internal or personal statement rather than as a response to political, social or cultural situations. The paintings, which range from photo-realism to abstractions to portraits to landscapes, offer a window into the lives of the artists. Whether showing us a glimpse of their neighborhood as Margaret García does in her expressive paintings of a car wash, hair salon, grocery store and taco shop; or personal interests such as graffiti art, street fashion and underground music that influence the works of Carlos Donjuán; or peppered with mystery and a bit of humor as in Ricardo Ruiz's four Masotas portraits based on family members; or making a statement about the double standards imposed on Mexican women as Ana Teresa Fernández does in "To Press I" and "To Press II;" or John Valadez's underwater figure studies painted on ceramic tiles, each artist draws on his or her own upbringing, cultural heritage, education and life experiences for inspiration.

Book Women in American History  4 volumes

Download or read book Women in American History 4 volumes written by Peg A. Lamphier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 2508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume set documents the complexity and richness of women's contributions to American history and culture, empowering all students by demonstrating a more populist approach to the past. Based on the content of most textbooks, it would be easy to reach the erroneous conclusion that women have not contributed much to America's history and development. Nothing could be further from the truth. Offering comprehensive coverage of women of a diverse range of cultures, classes, ethnicities, religions, and sexual identifications, this four-volume set identifies the many ways in which women have helped to shape and strengthen the United States. This encyclopedia is organized into four chronological volumes, with each volume further divided into three sections. Each section features an overview essay and thematic essay as well as detailed entries on topics ranging from Lady Gaga to Ladybird Johnson, Lucy Stone, and Lucille Ball, and from the International Ladies of Rhythm to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The set also includes a vast variety of primary documents, such as personal letters, public papers, newspaper articles, recipes, and more. These primary documents enhance users' learning opportunities and enable readers to better connect with the subject matter.

Book Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers

Download or read book Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers written by Hector Avalos Torres and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.

Book I Used to be a Superwoman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gloria Velàsquez
  • Publisher : Arte Publico Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781611921809
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book I Used to be a Superwoman written by Gloria Velàsquez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicano Movement is not dead. It lives on, fierce and passionate, in the voice and person of Gloria Velàsquez. Challenging our complacency, her resonant cries for justice ñrefuse to be silent/to be buried in obscurityî. Velàsquez has known poverty and discrimination intimately and, like a phoenix from the ashes, she has risen to recognition as an artist, an educator and a leader. But, the poet is as uncompromising with herself as she is with her reader. Refusing to rest on her laurel, her ardent verses are a pledge reiterating her allegiance to la causa and a call to arms demanding that others perpetuate the struggle. A consummate oral performer and speaker, Velàsquez has been uniquely successful in transferring onto the printed page the drama of reciting poetry on barrio streets. These pages burn with the fire of action and commitment.

Book Magaz  n

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Magaz n written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sanctuaries of the Heart

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  • Author : Margarita Cota-C‡rdenas
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780816524655
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Sanctuaries of the Heart written by Margarita Cota-C‡rdenas and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By depicting the strength of Petra and other Chicanas, Margarita Cota-Cardenas addresses the complexities of life in an important period of time for the development of Chicana/o consciousness. As her characters grapple with issues of family, abuse, and loss, they combine the traits of saints and devils, heroes and villains to show that the representation of life is as complex as life itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Cenzontle

Download or read book Cenzontle written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chicano Literary Prize

Download or read book Chicano Literary Prize written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Identity Poetics

Download or read book Identity Poetics written by Linda Garber and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating current information in paleobotany with physical, chemical, and geological data.

Book Mango

Download or read book Mango written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literatura chicana.

Book Chicano Visions

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  • Author : Cheech Marin
  • Publisher : Bulfinch
  • Release : 2002-09-23
  • ISBN : 9780821228067
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Chicano Visions written by Cheech Marin and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating in the early seventies, Chicano art long remained unrecognised by the art and gallery world. This text features the work of 26 Chicano artists and marks the transition of this unique and exciting movement into the critical fold of contemporary art.

Book La Chicana

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfredo Mirandé
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1981-03-15
  • ISBN : 0226531600
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book La Chicana written by Alfredo Mirandé and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Chicana is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as members of a colonized culture, and as victims of a cultural heritage dominated by the cult of machismo. Tracing the role of Chicanas from pre-Columbian society to the present, the authors reveal the antecedents and roots of contemporary cultural expectations in Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary Mexican historical periods. A discussion of the contribution of modern Chicanas to their community and to feminism and a look at literary stereotypes and the emergence of Chicana literature to counter them round out this perceptive and sympathetic analysis.

Book  A Different Sense of Power

Download or read book A Different Sense of Power written by Thomas Fink and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes the work of a racially, ethnically, and geographically diverse group of recent social poets. These figures -- Thylias Moss, John Yau, Denise Duchamel, Carolyn Forche, Joseph Lease, Gloria Anzaldua, Martin Espada, Melvin Dixon, and Stephen Paul Miller -- utilize a diversity of aesthetic strategies to address a number of central problems, such as poetic speculations about dangers and opportunities of visual representations by dominant and marginalized groups, effacement of specific communities' histories, and attempts at restoration of history.

Book Las Mujeres

Download or read book Las Mujeres written by Nan Elsasser and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1980 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral history of four generations of Hispanic women in New Mexico. Twenty-one Hispanas recall life experiences spanning a period from the time when New Mexico was a Spanish-speaking territory until today. Themes include: the shift from a rural to an urban environment ; the struggle to preserve culture and traditions ; efforts to cope with discrimination ; changes in family relations ; the striving for education, job, and careers ; service to family and community ; dedication to social change.

Book Captain Cheech

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cheech Marin
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2008-06-24
  • ISBN : 0061132063
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book Captain Cheech written by Cheech Marin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the reasons the atomic bombs were used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the role they played in Japan's surrender.

Book Cheech Is Not My Real Name

Download or read book Cheech Is Not My Real Name written by Cheech Marin and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir from a counterculture legend. Cheech Marin came of age at an interesting time in America and became a self-made counterculture legend with his other half, Tommy Chong. This insightful memoir delves into how Cheech dodged the draft, formed one of the most successful comedy duos of all time, became the face of the recreational drug movement with the film Up in Smoke, forged a successful solo career with roles in The Lion King and, more recently, Jane the Virgin, and became the owner of the most renowned collection of Chicano art in the world. Written in Cheech's uniquely hilarious voice, this memoir will take you to new highs.