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Book Remembering Mameyes

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  • Author : Juan José Nolla-Acosta
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2019-01-29
  • ISBN : 0359394302
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book Remembering Mameyes written by Juan José Nolla-Acosta and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 7th, 1985, the Mameyes community became known to Puerto Rico and the world. A massive landslide destroyed a large portion of it and buried alive a large number of its residents. As a remembrance the government built a monument but it has been abandoned, vandalized and profaned despite the fact that the whole area is the final resting place of those whose bodies couldn't be recovered. What was Mameyes? How did the residents live? How did this tragedy happen? Why did it happen? These questions and others will be answered and we will remember the people who lived in Mameyes. This book seeks to bring attention towards a community that was an important part of life in the city of Ponce, so future generations know about Mameyes and that it is not forgotten.

Book ReMembering Cuba

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  • Author : Andrea O’Reilly Herrera
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2001-06-15
  • ISBN : 9780292731479
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book ReMembering Cuba written by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred testimonies on the Cuban diaspora are gathered together from narratives, interviews, creative writing, letters, journal entries, photographs, and paintings to capture the strong emotions surrounding this ongoing ordeal. Simultaneous.

Book The Family Herald

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book The Family Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Culture and Power in the Classroom

Download or read book Culture and Power in the Classroom written by Antonia Darder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely second edition of the enormously significant book which changed how teachers and community activists view their own practice. This edition concludes with personal essays by teachers, professors, and community activists explaining the direct impact which Culture and Power in the Classroom has had on their lives. Unlike many texts that discuss educational failure, this book provides a historical context for understanding underachievement in our nation. Thoroughly revised to include the new thinking on diversity and learning, this edition includes a new chapter on assessment and the brain. This second edition will be welcomed by previous and new readers alike, and will help influence the approach of a new generation of teachers, whether they are based in schools, colleges or community centres.

Book A BOUQUET OF MEMORIES FOR AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER

Download or read book A BOUQUET OF MEMORIES FOR AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER written by Gisela Norat and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, childhood recollections become the springboard for depicting the challenges of a Latina, an immigrant, and a bicultural mother in the United States. The vignettes of life under communist rule in her native Cuba help readers glean a harsh contrast with the civil liberties Americans enjoy. Infused with humor and candid introspection, the writing tackles the pitfalls, the contradictions, and the cultural scrimmages that emerge after marriage to an Anglo man and during the upbringing of their bicultural daughter. When her enthusiasm for Spanish language immersion at home meets with the child's resistance, the author is forced to question the visceral attachment she feels for her birth language. Stumbling through motherhood, she ponders how to live an authentic sense of self while mothering in English. She resolves not to push the daughter to speak Spanish and risk damaging their mother-daughter bond. Instead, the author begins to write and crafts this family legacy as an invitation for her daughter to embrace her Cuban-Spanish lineage. This Latina mother's journey of self-reflection dredges memories of her birthplace, family, exile, cultural adaptation, and social integration. Through the narrative lens of a child, refugee, daughter, wife, mother, professor, and an acculturated Cuban American, the author depicts the culture-clashing complexities of her biculturalism. It is while examining the precariousness of family relationships that the author arrives at a deeper understanding of the nuances of ethnic identity. Through this writing, she achieves a genuine embrace of the extraordinary adoptive country that irrevocably ties her to her beloved American daughter. May you, reader, be inspired to collect and stitch for posterity your tapestry of family stories.

Book The Antonia Darder Reader

Download or read book The Antonia Darder Reader written by Antonia Darder and published by Myers Education Press. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner Antonia Darder is a Puerto Rican and American scholar, artist, poet, song writer and activist. She holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Her scholarship is known around the world and her efforts have earned her a large number of academic awards, including the Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award by the American Education Research Association. Three critical Darderean scholars (Kortney Hernandez, Sharon Cronin, and Eduardo Lopez), who have been lovingly mentored, empowered, and challenged by Darder, and who have developed their critical consciousness through the soulful educational wisdom of Darder, have come together to embrace the (im)possible task of curating a volume of some of her most powerful educational scholarship. This volume includes Antonia Darder’s central writings on the topics of language, culture, inequality, and education. If one were to “read” Darder, as Paulo Freire encouraged us to “read the word and the world,” her works would speak volumes of her unwavering commitment to the struggle for liberation and an emancipatory vision of the world. This is embodied in all aspects of her work as the range of her scholarship spans across mediums and decades. The Antonia Darder Reader is essential reading as a keystone volume in multiculturalism, critical studies, cultural studies, and many other disciplines. Perfect for courses such as: Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; History and Philosophy of Education; Teacher Education; Bilingual Education; Latinx and Education Studies; Critical Pedagogy; Critical Theory, Race and Education; Sociology of Education; Culturally Responsive Teaching; Social Justice and Research; Methodology

Book The Shattered City

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  • Author : Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Publisher : Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Release : 2019-02-13
  • ISBN : 0648329143
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book The Shattered City written by Tansy Rayner Roberts and published by Tansy Rayner Roberts. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling second novel of the Creature Court gaslamp fantasy trilogy. Daylight and nox collide as Ashiol and Velody’s uneasy alliance fractures. The Creature Court try to fight the war with theatre instead of bloodshed… but they still have to deliver a sacrifice. Will Delphine and Rhian escape the dangers of Velody’s new world, or be consumed by them? If you enjoy intrigue, devastating plot twists and sumptuous detail, you’ll adore this fantasy trilogy inspired by the 1920s. Immerse yourself in the glamorous, dangerous world of the Creature Court.

Book The Creature Court Trilogy

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  • Author : Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Publisher : Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Release : 2020-07-15
  • ISBN : 064889830X
  • Pages : 1425 pages

Download or read book The Creature Court Trilogy written by Tansy Rayner Roberts and published by Tansy Rayner Roberts. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 1425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garnet ruined both of their lives. He stole Velody’s memories, and he broke Ashiol’s heart. Now Velody and Ashiol have been left behind, to rule over a gang of shapechanging, glamorous monsters. Only one of them can be Power and Majesty of the Creature Court... or die trying. If you enjoy intrigue, devastating plot twists and sumptuous detail, you’ll adore this dark gaslamp fantasy trilogy inspired by the Roaring Twenties. Immerse yourself in the glamorous, dangerous world of the Creature Court. This digital box set includes the complete trilogy: #1 Power and Majesty #2 The Shattered City #3 Reign of Beasts.

Book K Oben

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  • Author : Amber M. O'Connor
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2016-12-14
  • ISBN : 1442255269
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book K Oben written by Amber M. O'Connor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today’s culinary tourism in the area. It focuses not only on what was eaten and how it was cooked, but the people involved: who grew or sourced the foods, who cooked them, who ate them. Additionally, the authors examine how Maya foodways and the people involved fit into the social system, particularly in how food is incorporated into culture, economy, and society. The authors provide a detailed literature review of hard-to-find sources including: out of print centuries old cookbooks, archaeological field notes, ethnographies and ethnohistories out of circulation and not available in English, thesis documents only available in Spanish and in university archives as well as current field research on the Maya. The more recent Maya foodways can be studied from cookbooks, ethnographies and ethnohistorical documentation. Between the two of us, we have assembled a small but representative collection of cookbooks, some self-published and rare, that were available in Merida and elsewhere in Mexico during the late 20th century. Some are quite old, and all reflect local traditional foodways. Geographically, the book concentrates on Yucatan, Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, but will include Pre-Classic and Classic evidence from Guatemala and El Salvador, whose foodways are influenced by Maya traditions.

Book The Occupation of Havana

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  • Author : Elena A. Schneider
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2018-10-29
  • ISBN : 146964536X
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book The Occupation of Havana written by Elena A. Schneider and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America. The Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba's return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions.

Book Tastes Like Cuba

Download or read book Tastes Like Cuba written by Eduardo Machado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tastes Like Cuba is the account of an exile searching for the identity he's lost and becoming someone else in the process. Eduardo Machado has grappled with questions of identity, loss, and resistance throughout his life and work. He has found that the most natural means of connecting with today's Cuban experience is through food." "The stories of Machado's life from child of privilege in pre-revolutionary Cuba; to exile in Los Angeles; to actor, director, playwright, and professor in New York are interleaved with recipes for the meals that have enriched him. What emerges is a larger picture of what it means to be Latino in America today." --Book Jacket.

Book ISLA

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995-07
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book ISLA written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-07 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.

Book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper

Download or read book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper written by John Albert Sleicher and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper

Download or read book Frank Leslie s Illustrated Newspaper written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mississippi Callin

Download or read book Mississippi Callin written by Helen Walton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story starts she was only six years old. She tells a story of her life for the next six years. You will see that her Dream as a child was to make it in Nashville. Helen did not archive fame as a singer; however she made it as a Clothing Designer. Designing clothes for some of Country Music’s Tops Stars..... Billy Ray Cyrus, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, Tanya Tucker and Pam Tillis to name a few. She sold her first garment at age 13 at Iupe’s in Canton. However, she had a demon that she fought throughout her life....

Book Assimilated Cuban s Guide to Quantum Santeria

Download or read book Assimilated Cuban s Guide to Quantum Santeria written by Carlos Hernandez and published by Rosarium Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who defies death by uploading his soul into his piano. There is the person who draws his mother's ghost out of the bullet hole in the wall near where she was executed. Another character has a horn growing out of the center of his forehead—punishment for an affair. But he is too weak to end it, too much in love to be moral. Another story recounts a panda breeder looking for tips. And then there's a border patrol agent trying to figure out how to process undocumented visitors from another galaxy. Poignant by way of funny, and philosophical by way of grotesque, Hernandez's stories are prayers for self-sovereignty.

Book Joseph s Dilemma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ervin R. Stutzman
  • Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
  • Release : 2015-06-15
  • ISBN : 0836198956
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Joseph s Dilemma written by Ervin R. Stutzman and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of the Return to Northkill trilogy. Unwilling captive or adopted son? Amish teen Joseph Hochstetler is taken into captivity by Native Americans during the French and Indian War. Initially he resists the Indians’ attempts to help him adapt to their ways—their food, games, and relaxed pace of life. In this story of forbidden love, Joseph finds himself pressed between his unfolding romance with a young Indian woman and the tug of his heritage. His eyes newly opened to the wrongs committed by the white settlers, Joseph determines never to go back to his Amish community. But the encroaching British army soon forces the Indians to give up their captives under threat of death. Based on actual events, Joseph’s Dilemma traces the wrenching dilemma of a young man caught between his Amish past, his love for a woman, and an unknown future. Continues the story started in Jacob’s Choice. Free downloadable study guide available here.