Download or read book Our Voices Little Stories Through a Latina Lens written by Lizette Epps and published by Breadth of Hope, LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Voices: Little Stories Through a Latina Lens is a captivating collection of short stories that offers readers a poignant and diverse glimpse into the lives of Latin and Hispanic people across the United States. Authored by a Latina who is deeply rooted in her culture, this anthology weaves together a rich tapestry of narratives, each exploring the unique experiences, challenges, triumphs, and resilience of individuals from different backgrounds and generations.From tales of family bonds and cultural nuances to stories of self-discovery and empowerment, "Our Voices" celebrates the multifaceted identities of Latinos and Hispanics while shedding light on the intersections of culture, heritage, and personal growth. Through the lens of these intimate and thought-provoking stories, readers embark on a literary journey that delves into the complexities of love, identity, and the enduring strength that arises from embracing one's roots.This collection is a powerful testament to the voices that often remain unheard but are, nonetheless, essential to the fabric of our society. "Our Voices" offers a compelling and authentic portrayal of the experiences faced, making it an inspiring and eye-opening read for all who seek a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives within the Latino community.
Download or read book Nuestras Voces Peque as Historias a Trav s de la Lente de una Latina written by Lizette Epps and published by Breadth of Hope, LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuestras Voces: Pequeñas Historias A Través De La Lente De Una Latina es una cautivadora colección de relatos cortos que ofrece a los lectores un vistazo conmovedor y diverso a las vidas de personas latinas e hispanas en los Estados Unidos. Escrito por una latina profundamente arraigada en su cultura, esta antología teje un rico tapiz de narrativas, cada una explorando las experiencias únicas, los desafíos, los triunfos y la resiliencia de individuos de diferentes orígenes y generaciones.Desde relatos sobre vínculos familiares y matices culturales hasta historias de autodescubrimiento y empoderamiento, "Nuestras Voces" celebra las identidades multifacéticas de los latinos e hispanos, al mismo tiempo que arroja luz sobre las intersecciones de cultura, herencia y crecimiento personal. A través de la lente de estas historias íntimas y reflexivas, los lectores emprenden un viaje literario que profundiza en las complejidades del amor, la identidad y la fuerza perdurable que surge al abrazar las raíces propias.Esta colección es un poderoso testimonio de las voces que a menudo quedan sin escuchar pero que, no obstante, son esenciales para el tejido de nuestra sociedad. "Nuestras Voces" ofrece una representación convincente y auténtica de las experiencias vividas, convirtiéndose en una lectura inspiradora y reveladora para todos aquellos que buscan una comprensión más profunda de las perspectivas diversas dentro de la comunidad latina.
Download or read book Telling Our Stories written by Theresa Baron-McKeagney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stereotypes of Mexican American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican American culture and their invisibility. In this qualitative study, Mexican American women were interviewed and their life histories were examined using an ethnographic and hermeneutical phenomenological approach.
Download or read book Ay T written by Sonia Saldívar-Hull and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.
Download or read book Flying Lessons Other Stories written by Ellen Oh and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred
Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latino a Theology written by Orlando O. Espin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino/aTheology Latino/aTheology Edited by Orlando O. Espín The one-volume Companion to Latino/a Theology presents a systematic survey of the past, present and future of Latino/a theology, introducing readers to this significant US theological movement. Contributors to the Companion include many established scholars of the highest caliber, together with some new and exciting voices within the various theological disciplines. A mixture of Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical scholars, they discuss the publications and contributions of theologians who reflect from, and participate in, the faith and realities of US Latino/a communities. providing unparalleled breadth and depth in the discussion of the key issues, each chapter begins with a summary of the theological publications and thought within Latino/a theology, and then proceeds to develop a constructive contribution on the topic. This invaluable and unique Companion, edited by one of the foremost Latino theologians currently working and writing in the field, is fully ecumenical, comprehensive, and wholly representative of the wide range of ecclesial and theological traditions. It will become both an important resource for scholars and an unparalleled introduction to the entire discipline. “A luminous assemblage of voices, lucid and experimental, as divergent from each other as they are connected, in a telogía de conjunto crucial not just for one complex US context but for the life and future of theology itself.” Catherine Keller, Drew Theological School
Download or read book Through Another Lens written by Charis Wilson and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the wife and model of photographer Edward Weston details their marriage and professional collaboration
Download or read book History and Hope in American Literature written by Benjamin Railton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, creative writers have often tackled topical subjects as a means to engage and influence public discourse. American authors—those born in the States and those who became naturalized citizens—have consistently found ways to be critical of the more painful pieces of the country’s past yet have done so with the patriotic purpose of strengthening the nation’s community and future. In History and Hope in American Literature: Models of Critical Patriotism, Ben Railton argues that it is only through an in-depth engagement with history—especially its darkest and most agonizing elements—that one can come to a genuine form of patriotism that employs constructive criticism as a tool for civic engagement. The author argues that it is through such critical patriotism that one can imagine and move toward a hopeful, shared future for all Americans. Railton highlights twelve works of American literature that focus on troubling periods in American history, including John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath,David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Dave Eggers’s What Is the What. From African and Native American histories to the Depression and the AIDS epidemic, Caribbean and Rwandan refugees and immigrants to global climate change, these works help readers confront, understand, and transcend the most sorrowful histories and issues. In so doing, the authors of these books offer hard-won hope that can help point people in the direction of a more perfect union. History and Hope in American Literature will be of interest to students and practitioners of American literature and history.
Download or read book Fields in Motion written by Dena Davida and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture. The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, autoethnography, pedagogies and creative processes, and choreographies as cultural and spiritual representations. The contributors bring an insiders insight to their accounts of the nature and function of these artistic practices, giving voice to dancers, dance teachers, creators, programmers, spectators, students, and scholars. International and intergenerational, this collection of groundbreaking scholarly research points to a new direction for both dance studies and dance anthropology. Traditionally the exclusive domain of aesthetic philosophers, the art of dance is here reframed as cultural practice, and its significance is revealed through a chorus of voices from practitioners and insider ethnographers.
Download or read book Retellings written by Jessica Enoch and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies In Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, the contributors use the anniversary of the publication of Cheryl Glenn’s Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance, the first book to examine women’s contributions to rhetoric across history, as an opportune moment to assess feminist rhetorical research and test out new possibilities. Together, the essays ask, what does it or should it mean to engage rhetoric from a feminist perspective? Each chapter addresses one of four aspects of this question, including the place of feminist rhetoric in contemporary (real-world and transnational) politics; the relationship between feminist rhetorical studies and identity studies; the prospects for feminist research methods and methodologies; or the feminist rhetorical commitment to “paying it forward” through teaching and mentoring. Collectively, the essays push scholars to expand the national boundaries of rhetorical inquiry to include women’s roles in global politics. Contributors also engage in intersectional analyses of gender and other vectors of power (including, here, religious affiliation and sexuality), considering identities as epistemic resources for rhetors. To develop richer methods and methodologies, contributors highlight the ethical challenges of research practices ranging from IRB submissions to archival research, critically interrogating the positionality of the researcher with relation to her subjects and materials. Finally, contributors address the needs and interests of diverse readers when they highlight how feminist perspectives challenge traditional models of teaching and mentorship. Contributors include Heather Brook Adams, Jean Bessette, Michelle F. Eble, Jessica Enoch, Rosalyn Collings Eves, Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Cheryl Glenn, Anita Helle, Jordynn Jack, A. Abby Knoblauch, Shirley Wilson Logan, Briggite Mral, Krista Ratcliffe, Cristina D. Ramírez, Elaine Richardson, Wendy B. Sharer, and Berit von der Lippe.
Download or read book Velvet Barrios written by Alicia Gasper De Alba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chicana/o popular culture, nothing signifies the working class, highly-layered, textured, and metaphoric sensibility known as "rasquache aesthetic" more than black velvet art. The essays in this volume examine that aesthetic by looking at icons, heroes, cultural myths, popular rituals, and border issues as they are expressed in a variety of ways. The contributors dialectically engage methods of popular cultural studies with discourses of gender, sexuality, identity politics, representation, and cultural production. In addition to a hagiography of "locas santas," the book includes studies of the sexual politics of early Chicana activists in the Chicano youth movement, the representation of Latina bodies in popular magazines, the stereotypical renderings of recipe books and calendar art, the ritual performance of Mexican femaleness in the quinceañera, and mediums through which Chicano masculinity is measured.
Download or read book Raise Your Voices written by Thomas M. McCann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raise Your Voices shows English language arts teachers how to prompt, sustain, connect, and assess classroom discussions, especially about issues that adolescents find consequential. The chapters explore the basics for facilitating discussion to support literacy learning and the principles for assessing the progress and effect of discussion.
Download or read book Trinity Sight written by Jennifer Givhan and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Southwest Book Award “Our people are survivors,” Calliope’s great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots—could Bisabuela’s ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared—or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors, confronting violent inhabitants, in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. The impossible suddenly real, Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied if she wants to survive and deliver her unborn babies into this uncertain new world. Rooted in indigenous oral-history traditions and contemporary apocalypse fiction, Trinity Sight asks readers to consider science versus faith and personal identity versus ancestral connection. Lyrically written and utterly original, Trinity Sight brings readers to the precipice of the end-of-times and the hope for redemption.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of U S Latino Literature written by Francisco A. Lomelí and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Latino Literature is defined as Latino literature within the United States that embraces the heterogeneous inter-groupings of Latinos. For too long U.S. Latino literature has not been thought of as an integral part of the overall shared American literary landscape, but that is slowly changing. This dictionary aims to rectify some of those misconceptions by proving that Latinos do fundamentally express American issues, concerns and perspectives with a flair in linguistic cadences, familial themes, distinct world views, and cross-cultural voices. The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has cross-referenced entries on U.S. Latino/a authors, and terms relevant to the nature of U.S. Latino literature in order to illustrate and corroborate its foundational bearings within the overall American literary experience. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.
Download or read book Extraordinary Latinas Vol II written by Ilhiana Rojas Saldana and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharing the stories of Extraordinary Latinas who, through purpose, resilience, and courage, have embraced their uniqueness, carved their path, harnessed the power of community, and opened doors for other Latinas and women to rise. Latinas are rapidly becoming the growth engine for the US and prominent contributors to American society's educational, economic, and cultural wellbeing. Nonetheless, Latinas continue to be significantly underserved, undervalued, and underrepresented. Now more than ever, we must change the narrative and redefine our power. It is our time to challenge the beliefs from the past that "calladita te vez mas bonita" and recognize that our true beauty and power comes from our uniqueness, our heritage, and our collective voices. By elevating our voices and sharing our stories, we empower one another to become stronger, to see the world through each other's eyes, and to recognize our potential through someone else's story. By sharing our stories, we can all be uplifted and inspired - this is the essence of this book. Our unique voices are the pathways to our individual wisdom - and it's through these stories that we come together to empower one another. Know that you are not alone. Although you may feel like the "only one," you can find in Extraordinary Latinas, a group of powerful women who have gone through similar experiences and will help you step up, believe in yourself and embrace your power as an Extraordinary Latina.
Download or read book Whiteness Pedagogy Performance written by Leda M. Cooks and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whiteness, Pedagogy, Performance is unique in bringing together these three important topics in the context of communication teaching and scholarship with an eye toward interdisciplinary perspectives. In fourteen chapters, the leading whiteness scholars in the field of communication analyze the process of teaching and learning and the complicated intersections of whiteness, racial identity, and cross-racial dialogue. Toward these ends, these essays offer a variety of theoretical and practical approaches to the analysis of identity construction, racial privilege, and pedagogies toward equality and social justice. Above all, for teachers, students, and anyone interested in these issues, this book is a challenge to re-think the ways our curricula, texts, disciplinary boundaries, and moreover, how our interactions and performances re-inscribe racial privileges. Chapters provide innovative and accessible analyses of teaching and learning that will appeal to students, teachers, administrators, and anyone interested in how race works.
Download or read book Diverse Experiences of Latinas in Higher Education written by Rocío D. Hernández and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By sharing the collective experiences of Latinas in Higher Education, this book provides a diverse range of empowering testimonios from Chingonas living on their own terms, who are defining professionalism for themselves. Chingona means "badass" and is a term that has been reappropriated by Latinas as an expression of empowerment both inside and outside of education. This anthology is a collection of twelve voices, representative of the experiences of empowered Chingonas across various roles in higher education who identify as Latinas. This volume shares the knowledge of Chingona Latina women, including their thoughts around authenticity, identity, and the disruption of dominant cultural experiences within the institution. It also seeks to help other Latinas realize that they are not alone in their experiences with higher education. This book includes questions for reflection and writing prompts, allowing readers to consider their own lived experiences and envision change. This collection will be important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in education-related programs, including Higher Education Studies and Educational Leadership, as well as courses in Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o/x Studies, Latinx/a/o Studies and Women’s Studies. It also offers an invaluable learning opportunity for higher education professionals, leaders, and administrators, especially within student affairs.
