Download or read book Narrating a Psychology of Resistance written by Shelly Grabe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrating a Psychology of Resistance analyzes first-hand testimony from the Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres in Nicaragua - a coordinated mobilization of women that has weathered unremitting power differentials characterized by patriarchy and capitalism - to examine the psychology of resistance in order to revolutionize societies who have suffered under brutal regimes.
Download or read book Documenting the Undocumented written by Marta Caminero-Santangelo and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the work of Junot Díaz, Cristina García, Julia Alvarez, and other Latino/a authors who are U.S. citizens, Marta Caminero-Santangelo examines how writers are increasingly expressing their solidarity with undocumented immigrants. Through storytelling, these writers create community and a sense of peoplehood that includes non-citizen Latino/as. This volume also foregrounds the narratives of unauthorized migrants themselves, showing how their stories are emerging into the public sphere. Immigration and citizenship are multifaceted issues, and the voices are myriad. They challenge common interpretations of "illegal" immigration, explore inevitable traumas and ethical dilemmas, protest their own silencing in immigration debates, and even capitalize on the topic for the commercial market. Yet these texts all seek to affect political discourse by advancing the possibility of empathy across lines of ethnicity and citizenship status. As border enforcement strategies escalate along with political rhetoric, detentions, and deaths, these counternarratives are more significant than ever before, and their perspectives cannot be ignored. What we are witnessing, argues Caminero-Santangelo, is a mass mobilization of stories. This growing body of literature is critical to understanding not only the Latino/a immigrant experience but also alternative visions of nation and belonging.
Download or read book Mosquito Trails written by Alex M. Nading and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches to animal-borne illness, the author tells the story of a group of community health workers who struggle to come to terms with dengue epidemics amid poverty, political change and economic upheaval. Simultaneous eBook.
Download or read book Undocumented in L A written by Dianne Walta Hart and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her story is similar to those of the thousands of illegal immigrants who cross the border into America every day in search of political or economic refuge. In 1988, a woman in her late thirties named Yamileth obtains a passport, leaves her home, and makes a daring, dangerous trip from war-torn Nicaragua through Central America to the United States to join her family. In Los Angeles, Yamileth must find a place to live and a job to support her family, yet keep secret the fact that she entered the country as an illegal alien. She must adapt to new customs and the flood of Latino and Asian immigrants. She must live among the people of California, who in 1994 approved Proposition 187 with the intent to deny undocumented immigrants education, social services, and health care. Yamileth's daily experiences mirror the hopes and frustrations of women and men who must confront new cultural, economic, and political environments. Author Dianne Walta Hart's long and close relationship with Yamileth allows her to present Yamileth's cultural struggles and personal development in poignant narrative and passages in Yamileth's own words. From start to finish, Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story is testimonial literature at its best. This eye-opening work will show the reader the opposition and difficulties undocumented immigrants face in a nation that at first beckons them with freedom, then rejects them with unwelcoming borders and restrictive laws. Undocumented in L.A.: An Immigrant's Story is an excellent resource for courses in immigration, political science, and social and cultural studies.
Download or read book Literature as History written by Mario T. García and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature as History represents a unique way to rethink history. Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.
Download or read book Lily Without written by Guillermo Paxton and published by WCP Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix is a police detective working in Juarez, Mexico. He is vicious, ruthless, and corrupt. His wife, Julia, is a beautiful woman that due to Felix's marital indiscretions has become obsessed with her looks. Felix hires Lila, a mature prostitute to "make his wife happy." The torrid affair between the two women that ensues infuriates yet arouses Felix, causing him to go on a sexual and violent rampage. Wilted Lily is based on true events. The book both explores the tightrope that is a ménage à trois as well as the violence and corruption of the Juarez police, both erotica and crime fiction.
Download or read book Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies written by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx Studies This groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina and Latino populations. Editors Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa have crafted an anthology that is unique in both form and content. The book combines previously published canonical pieces with original, cutting-edge works created for this volume. The sections of the text are arranged thematically as critical dialogues, each with a brief preface that provides context and a conceptual direction for the scholarly conversation that ensues. The editors frame the volume around the “humanistic social sciences,” using the term to highlight the historical and social contexts under which expressive cultural forms and archival records are created. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies masterfully sheds light on the diversity and complexity of the everyday lives of Latinx populations, the political economic structures that shape enduring racialization and cultural stereotyping, and the continuing efforts to carve out new lives as diasporic, transnational, global, and colonial subjects.
Download or read book ENGLISH 7 written by F PRIMA GRUPO EDITORIAL and published by F PRIMA GRUPO EDITORIAL . This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sun Up! Engaging REAL-WORLD tasks for seventh graders is an integrated skills book which has been developed based on the Costa Rican English new program starting in 2017 for seventh graders. The book is ideal to study over an academic year. Students practice the four skills through communicative activities that follow the Task Based Approach in four stages. To achieve the language competence, this book is divided into six scenarios, each scenario is divided into four themes and an extension section called review and expand. Each theme organizes the tasks into two main components: oral and written comprehension, and oral and written production. The Action Oriented Approach states that students are social agents who use the target language to perform specific actions in real life contexts. To be coherent with this basic principle,the seventh grade English book includes the use of digital technology in the development ofmini-projects and critical thinking by letting students make decisions through problem-solving situations. SUNup! Engaging REAL-WORLD tasks for seventh graders has been designed to consolidate the A1 band, based on the Common European Framework. In the extension activities, students are expected to reinforce grammar and sentence framesas well as reading comprehension. At the end of each scenario, students are expected to check their progress which derive from the linguistic competences “Learner can …” using a Can-do check list. A flexible classroom arrangement is recommended so that students can have opportunities to walk around and work in pairs or individually, which will provide them with the opportunity of developing learners’ meta-cognitive, meta-affective, and meta-social strategies in an organized, purposeful and scaffolded learning experience. Besides the students’ book, teachers have access to the audio- material and the teachers’guide. The F PRIMA Publishing house focuses on supporting English Teachers in the process of understanding and implementing the new English syllabus approved by the Consejo Superior de Educación in the year 2016. Thank you for your commitment to the goal of transforming English Classrooms across CostaRica.
Download or read book A Stab in the Heartland written by David Clifford Grieser and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking place across the Midwest’s heartland of America, this collection of short stories offers nuance to the darker aspects of human relationships. Told primarily from the intoxicating beginnings of lust before progressing toward love, the stories fluidly transform into stark realities rather than romantic ideals. Each story provides an intimate look at how commitment and affection can turn into disloyalty or even hatred. With subtle mystery and humor sprinkled throughout, readers will be fascinated and shocked at where these winding plots lead, both physically and psychologically. Though at times jarring, the stories ultimately highlight the complexity of bonds between people in both their beauty and brutality.
Download or read book Contradiction and Conflict written by Debra Sabia and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabia examines the complex interaction of religious belief and political inspiration among internal divisions of Nicaragua's popular church.
Download or read book Anthropology and Migration written by Caroline B. Brettell and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brettell's new book provides new insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. It has been estimated at the turn of the millennium that 160 million people are living outside of their country of birth or citizenship. The author analyzes macro and micro approaches to migration theory, utilizing her extensive fieldwork in Portugal as well as research in Germany, Brazil, France, the United States and Canada. Key issues she discusses include: the value of immigrant incorporation vs. assimilation models; the impacts on individual, household and community as well as institutions and states; the role of ethnicity and ethnic groups; the effects of clandestine or illegal immigration; the differing commitments to host vs. sending communities; the shift from city enclaves to suburban areas; the constraints and opportunities that lead to ethnic entrepreneurship; the role of religion in transnational linkages; and the differing experiences of men and women as migrants. Brettell also explores the relevance of life histories and oral narratives in understanding the immigration process and the mediation of boundaries in a new society. This book provides a fresh perspective on the contemporary experience of migration and will be indispensable to instructors and researchers in anthropology, race and ethnic studies, immigration studies, urban studies, sociology, and international relations.
Download or read book Clown Horror 152 written by I. D. Oro and published by I. D. Oro. This book was released on 2022-01-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Osvaldo is a genius even if his wife Sariyah likes to make fun of him for his lousy job as a dish washer in a restaurant. Osvaldo does not care about his boring job since it is just a cover for his real job. Smuggling people in his Chevrolet Suburban’s secret compartment is his real job. His challenge is in beating the government and making money. He is a capitalist who is only interested in making money and getting paid. It does not matter who wants to get across if they pay him. This side hussle is the only thing that is paying his bills in southern California since his regular job is only a minimum wage job. A friend from Seattle, Washington arrives to ask Osvaldo to pay him a favor that he owes. Osvaldo is not sure that he is up to the task but he must pay his favor to get his annoying friend to stop bothering him. A new challenge arrives which puts him in the dangerous job of rescuing people from the Devilcare Death Panels & Camps. Now his life is in real danger once President Führer Devil-Eggs signs an executive order that will punish anyone who rescues people from inside of there with a firing squad. Osvaldo must deal with the stress and the danger while he makes sure that his wife will not tell the government about his new side hussle. He does not want to end up dead since his wife has panic attacks when they are doing illegal activities. (Word Count 66,749)
Download or read book The Ugly Hate written by Waitman Gobble and published by Arduent Centisi LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ugly Hate is a romance and crime novel. In 1898, the United States of America won its territories, Puerto Rico and Cuba, from a contest with Spain. After the win, American soldiers returned to the mainland for the only coup d'état in American history. Somewhere along the King's Highway, a serial killer is wreaking havoc, leaving a trail of carnage for a drug-addled British detective to contemplate. Sorting through the masses of gore and evidence, there have to be clues that point to an answer that will spare the lives of more unwitting travelers and residence along the highway. Meanwhile, a romance between Emily and Jordan has blossomed within the true spirit of Americana. The couple is focused on their haste toward the coast of Georgia to board the S.S. Savannah, which will take them on their first steam engine trip across the Atlantic. But the path to England is complicated by the British agent who knows Emily's darker secrets and the winter hurricane threatening all on the Georgia coast.
Download or read book Experiencias Annotated Instructor s Edition written by Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Experiencias offers carefully sequenced activities, pre-tested in the authors' own classes, that focus on personal interaction and real communication. All face-to-face activities are easily adaptable for digital environments and writing assignments. Recycling Throughout both volumes, Experiencias incorporates activities that recycle previously learned material but with new topics, which allows students to continue mastering vocabulary and structures encountered earlier in the program"--
Download or read book Guatemala s Forgotten Children written by Lee Tucker and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abuses by private security forces.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica written by David Diaz-Arias and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costa Rica has been largely recognized as a democratic and politically stable country in a region (Central America) characterized by instability, dictatorships, and social inequality. Several social and institutional problems have risen during the last decades, but the country still maintains good social and health indicators. Historical Dictionary of Costa Rica contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Costa Rica.
Download or read book Frontera Madre hood written by Cynthia Bejarano and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on the concept of frontera madre(hood) as both a methodological and theoretical framework, this collection embodies the challenges and resiliency of mothering along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. More than thirty contributors examine how mothering is shaped by the geopolitics of border zones, which also transcends biological, sociological, or cultural and gendered tropes regarding ideas of motherhood, who can mother, and what mothering personifies.
