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Book Panchita

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  • Author : Delia Goetz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1941
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Panchita written by Delia Goetz and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras

Download or read book The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras written by Tey Diana Rebolledo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there have been substantial contributions to Chicana literature and criticism over the past few decades, Chicanas are still underrepresented and underappreciated in the mainstream literary world and virtually nonexistent in the canon. Writers like Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Gloria Anzaldúa have managed to find larger audiences and critical respect, but there are legions of Chicana writers and artists who have been marginalized and ignored despite their talent. Even in Chicano anthologies, the focus has tended to be more on male writers. Chicanas have often found themselves without a real home in the academic world. Tey Diana Rebolledo has been writing about Chicana/Latina identity, literature, discrimination, and feminism for more than two decades. In this collection of essays, she brings together both old and new works to give a state-of-the-moment look at the still largely unanswered questions raised by vigilant women of color throughout the last half of the twentieth century. An intimate introductory essay about Rebolledo's personal experiences as the daughter of a Mexican mother and a Peruvian father serves to lay the groundwork for the rest of the volume. The essays delve into the historical development of Chicana writing and its early narratives, the representation of Chicanas as seen on book covers, Chicana feminism, being a Chicana critic in the academy, Chicana art history, and Chicana creativity. Rebolledo encourages "guerrillera" warfare against academia in order to open up the literary canon to Chicana/Latina writers who deserve validation.

Book Panchita

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  • Author : Gil Procter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Panchita written by Gil Procter and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saga of the daring women who smuggled guns across the Rio Grande for Pancho Villa.

Book Cuba

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  • Author : United States. Office of Geography
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Cuba written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Isabel Allende  Life and Spirits

Download or read book Isabel Allende Life and Spirits written by Celia Correas de Zapata and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of interviews with the Chilean author.

Book Other People s Children

Download or read book Other People s Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Population Crisis

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1388 pages

Download or read book Population Crisis written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 1676, to reorganize State Dept and HEW programs concerned with population growth.

Book Cuba  Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names

Download or read book Cuba Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book

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  • Author : О. Генри
  • Publisher : Litres
  • Release : 2022-03-31
  • ISBN : 504012466X
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book written by О. Генри and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: В книгу вошли рассказы О.Генри «Комната на чердаке», «Купидон à la Carte», «Из любви к искусству», «Бабье лето Джонсона Сухого Лога» и др. Рассказы снабжены упражнениями на понимание текста, перевод и совершенствование произношения.Книга предназначена для учащихся старших классов школ, студентов и всех самостоятельно изучающих английский язык.

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tuning Out Blackness

Download or read book Tuning Out Blackness written by Yeidy M. Rivero and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Yeidy M. Rivero advances critical discussions about race, ethnicity, and the media. She shows that televisual representations of race have belied the racial egalitarianism that allegedly pervades Puerto Rico’s national culture. White performers in blackface have often portrayed “blackness” in local television productions, while black actors have been largely excluded. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, archival research, and textual analysis, Rivero considers representations of race in Puerto Rico, taking into account how they are intertwined with the island’s status as a U.S. commonwealth, its national culture, its relationship with Cuba before the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the massive influx of Cuban migrants after 1960. She focuses on locally produced radio and television shows, particular television events, and characters that became popular media icons—from the performer Ramón Rivero’s use of blackface and “black” voice in the 1940s and 1950s, to the battle between black actors and television industry officials over racism in the 1970s, to the creation, in the 1990s, of the first Puerto Rican situation comedy featuring a black family. As the twentieth century drew to a close, multinational corporations had purchased all Puerto Rican stations and threatened to wipe out locally produced programs. Tuning Out Blackness brings to the forefront the marginalization of nonwhite citizens in Puerto Rico’s media culture and raises important questions about the significance of local sites of television production.

Book Sex  Skulls  and Citizens

Download or read book Sex Skulls and Citizens written by Ashley Elizabeth Kerr and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PROSE Awards Subject Category Finalist, 2021—Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality. The writers studied here (an eclectic group of scientists, anthropologists, and novelists, including Estanislao Zeballos, Lucio and Eduarda Mansilla, Ramón Lista, and Florence Dixie) reflect on Indigenous sexual practices, analyze the advisability and effects of interracial sex, and use the language of desire to narrate encounters with Indigenous peoples as they try to scientifically pinpoint Argentina's racial identity and future potential. Kerr's reach extends into history of science, literary studies, and history of anthropology, illuminating a scholarly time and place in which the lines betwixt were much blurrier, if they existed at all.

Book The Presbyterian Record

Download or read book The Presbyterian Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Becoming Nuyoricans

Download or read book On Becoming Nuyoricans written by Angela Anselmo and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Becoming Nuyoricans takes an intimate look at two sisters' experiences growing up as part of the first generation of female Puerto Ricans born and raised in New York during the 1950s and 1960s. This generation of Puerto Ricans, also referred to as «Nuyoricans», played a critical role in helping to define unique issues of race, assimilation, and equity for immigrants who were not white Europeans (African Americans notwithstanding) in a society that defined itself as a «melting pot». This book also examines critical issues related to community, home, class, values, motivation, and identity that have played a role in molding who those women are today. In essence, On Becoming Nuyoricans provides an important look at a pivotal period in American society as depicted in these sisters' narratives and an analysis of their recollections.

Book Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication

Download or read book Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cuba  Another Side of the Story

Download or read book Cuba Another Side of the Story written by Iris M. Diaz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuba: Another Side of the Story is a memoir of how life changed for many children growing up in a country slowly dying under constant political conflict. The story is told in three parts: Part I “Before Castro,” Part II “Life under Castro,” Part III “Life in Exile.” This book creates a vivid sense of time and place through childhood memories of pre- and post-Castro Cuba, from 1945 to 1967. The forty two stories, told through the voice of a child, highlight moments of injustice in the eyes of a young girl who does not understand why the world around her is so strange. Her nanny, a poor black woman, shaped her soul and showed her the other side of the story, the story of the poor who are voiceless in a world where only those who can afford to pay for elite private schools can get ahead in life. This nanny becomes the spiritual guide who enables a very sensitive young child to navigate in a confusing world. Every one of the 42 stories focuses on a moment where the child relives memories of what she witnessed growing up. The first story is dedicated to Nana, the person whose memory guides her to write her life story. The title of the stories clearly describe how Nana influenced the author and helped her see the other side of the story. “El Barrio” describes a neighborhood where the rich, middle class and the poor lived in close proximity, a reflection of what Cuban society was in the 1950’s-“Everyone lived under the same sun, moon and stars but our worlds were very different.” The chapter about “Sunday Mass” describes the well-dressed parishioners who every Sunday walked through the park next to the Church and ignored the beggars who held their arms out, palms up, hoping to get a nickel or dime. “I don’t think the beggars got any of the money the priests collected every Sunday because they came back every Sunday. I never understood why God didn’t take care of everybody the same way.” Religious conflict plus the rich versus poor struggles are present throughout the book. Castro started his revolution claiming he wanted to help the poor. In the end, everyone, including the poor, were deceived by a charismatic man who understood what the poor wanted to hear, a promise of equality for all. His communist doctrine doomed the possibility of ever achieving equality for all. During Sunday Mass the priests would often remind poor parishioners how much God loved the needy by quoting verses like, “Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God,” or “For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” Religion and poverty seem to be two themes that prevail throughout this book, expressed clearly by the voice of the author who puts into words her thoughts by writing, “I never understood why God didn’t take care of everybody the same way.” The stories “The Day the Old Cuba Died“ and “The Bay of Pigs Invasion” describe the days leading to the failed attempt by Cuban exiles to get rid of the Castro regime. All hope and dreams died. The only dream left was to find a way to leave the island. The chapter “Adios Cuba” is a vivid memory of what it means to become a political exile. “Exile is more than a change of address, it is a spiritual displacement.” This book is not a research study about Cuban maids, family, religion or politics; it is a story about a young child and the life of her nanny and maids who allowed her to enter their world, a world that many don’t dare to acknowledge.