Download or read book Time for Reparations written by Jacqueline Bhabha and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past state injustice has enduring consequences and the harm needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity. Time for Reparations offers detailed case studies of state injustices—from slavery to forced sterilization to widespread atrocities—and interdisciplinary perspectives on the potential impact of reparative strategies.
Download or read book Until I Find You written by Rachel Nolan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant saga of Guatemala's adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption--but in 1986 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat met a woman who strongly resembled her. Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat's mother at all, but a jaladora--a baby broker. Some 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from families scarred by Guatemala's civil war or made desperate by unrelenting poverty. Amid the US-backed army's genocide against Indigenous Maya, children were wrested from their villages and put up for adoption illegally, mostly in the United States. During the war's second decade, adoption was privatized, overseen by lawyers who made good money matching children to overseas families. Private adoptions skyrocketed to the point where tiny Guatemala overtook giants like China and Russia as a "sender" state. Drawing on government archives, oral histories, and a rare cache of adoption files opened briefly for war crimes investigations, Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of an international industry that thrives on exploitation. Would-be parents in rich countries have fostered a commercial market for children from poor countries, with Guatemala becoming the most extreme case. Until I Find You reckons with the hard truths of a practice that builds loving families in the Global North out of economic exploitation, endemic violence, and dislocation in the Global South.
Download or read book Transitional Justice written by Alexander Laban Hinton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The origins of this project date back to a 2007 symposium, 'Local justice : global mechanisms and local meanings in the aftermath of mass atrocity, ' held at Rutgers University--Newark [N.J.] ... Several participants later presented papers in a session at the July 2007 meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which was held in Bosnia and Herzegovina."--Acknowledgments.
Download or read book LA HERENCIA DE EL ENCANTO written by RAÚL D. MONTOYA and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Encanto, al igual que otros poblados del estado de Veracruz, se caracteriza por lo aberrante de su gente. Por un lado, quienes glorifican en público a Epifanio Martínez, en privado lo maldicen. Muchos quieren ser como él, pero aborrecen que su estirpe haya mantenido en perpetua desgracia al poblado. Nadie sabe con exactitud cuándo fue el día en que los pueblerinos quedaron a merced de tanta humillación. Lo perverso de su verdugo, confunde a la gente con la idea de que éste todo lo puede con el poder de su dinero, hasta que en el horizonte aparecen Gabino Domínguez y Gervasio García, provocando que el cacique viva sus peores días. Sin querer, el par de campesinos sufren con una experiencia que los horroriza de pies a cabeza en la derruida ex hacienda de El Encanto. A partir de ese momento, la vida en El Encanto ya no será la misma. Muchos, al igual que Gabino y Gervasio, creen que Epifanio tiene pactos con el demonio. Y el par de campesinos tienen razones de sobra para pensar así. Sin embargo, ambos se dan cuenta que el cacique no es el mito que todos creían. Así, poco a poco, Gabino y su inseparable amigo con la ayuda de la familia Ruvalcaba, descorren el velo que mantuvo por tanto tiempo postrado al poblado.
Download or read book La lluvia me dir qui n eres written by Gaia Jiménez and published by Caligrama. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dónde está mi lugar, dónde está mi vida, dónde estoy yo... Tras un grave accidente de tráfico, nuestra protagonista pierde la memoria, teniendo que enfrentarse a la vida sin más herramientas que las que va construyendo con ayuda de su intuición. Libre de condicionamientos sociales que le indiquen un camino, emprenderá un viaje que la llevará a conocer la oscuridad del alma humana, pero también aprenderá a sobrevivir con la fuerza que habita en su interior. La Lluvia me dirá quién eres es la historia de muchas mujeres en diferentes partes del mundo, que salen adelante con el alma rota y las cicatrices de una guerra en la que ellas no siempre son las vencedoras.
Download or read book Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala written by Egla Martínez Salazar and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaged critique of the geopolitics of knowledge, Egla Martínez Salazar examines the genocide and other forms of state terror such as racialized feminicide and the attack on Maya childhood, which occurred in Guatemala of the 1980s and '90s with the full support of Western colonial powers. Drawing on a careful analysis of recently declassified state documents, thematic life histories, and compelling interviews with Maya and Mestizo women and men survivors, Martinez Salazar shows how people resisting oppression were converted into the politically abject. At the center of her book is an examination of how coloniality survives colonialism—a crucial point for understanding how contemporary hegemonic practices and ideologies such as equality, democracy, human rights, peace, and citizenship are deeply contested terrains, for they create nominal equality from practical social inequality. While many in the global North continue to enjoy the benefits of this domination, millions, if not billions, in both the South and North have been persecuted, controlled, and exterminated during their struggles for a more just world.
Download or read book Porque Lloran Los Tucanes written by F. L. Paz and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La verdad oculta en la "zona roja"ccultivos de coca, narcotrafico y guerra - en las selvas colombianas. La sobrevivencia y escape del escritor de esa zona como prisionero politico de guerrilleros.
Download or read book La Espada de La Luz written by D. René García V. and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Qué sucedería si el mundo llega a una era en la cual la tecnología ha evolucionado tanto, que la humanidad es despojada de toda conciencia? Si la guerra estallara entre los países destruyendo cada vez más el único hogar que posee el ser humano, si el hombre abandona lo único inmortal que posee se convierte en un ser maldito. Los demonios escaparon del infierno gracias a la maldad que el ser humano había creado, los ángeles intentaron intervenir pero tras siglos de interminable lucha se han extinto y han dejado al hombre solo en la guerra con el legado del conocimiento divino, que el ser humano no tardo en comprender, pues es su verdadera naturaleza. 600 años pasaron y el mundo lentamente regresa a su antiguo esplendor; los bosques regresan a cubrir las tierras, el agua se purifica nuevamente, la lluvia que una vez fue imbebible cae y trae esperanza a las alma de quienes encontraron una vida en las grandes ciudades estado, las capitales que fueron creadas por los arcángeles. La guerra es un arte que el hombre perfecciono durante milenios, ahora que se enfrenta en desventaja frente un enemigo ciego por la sed de sangre, la última esperanza se encuentra en una joven llamada Anna Loralieth, quien ha encontrado el camino que los guiara a la última pieza del enigma atrás de los ángeles. La espada creada por Uriel, la espada de la luz. Inicia una nueva cruzada para salvar a al mundo del señor de la oscuridad.
Download or read book Dalom y el esp ritu de la desolaci n written by Yon Jiménez and published by Caligrama. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El peor enemigo de un hombre son los miedos que alberga en su corazón. Dalom, quien anhela vivir una vida diferente a la que sus padres y su comunidad le imponen, pacta con el maléfico espíritu de un hombre condenado a deambular eternamente en la oscuridad, el recibir una poderosa espada a cambio del corazón palpitante de su pequeño hijo. Al no poder cumplir con su parte del pacto, Dalom huye de su pequeña aldea con la ilusión de iniciar una nueva vida y de librarse de la sentencia de muerte que Calin, el espíritu desolado, ha impuesto sobre él. Muriendo lentamente, Dalom entenderá que la única forma de salvar su propia vida es encontrando la espada por sus propios medios antes de que otro lo haga; no obstante, aquella desquiciada búsqueda lo llevará a tierras lejanas en donde se aliará con oscuras y peligrosas fuerzas, descubrirá el sabor amargo del verdadero amor y ganará peligrosos enemigos.
Download or read book Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities written by Rachel Sieder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities: Latin American and African Perspectives examines the relationship between legal pluralities and the prospects for greater gender justice in developing countries. Rather than asking whether legal pluralities are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for women, the starting point of this volume is that legal pluralities are a social fact. Adopting a more anthropological approach to the issues of gender justice and women’s rights, it analyzes how gendered rights claims are made and responded to within a range of different cultural, social, economic and political contexts. By examining the different ways in which legal norms, instruments and discourses are being used to challenge or reinforce gendered forms of exclusion, contributing authors generate new knowledge about the dynamics at play between the contemporary contexts of legal pluralities and the struggles for gender justice. Any consideration of this relationship must, it is concluded, be located within a broader, historically informed analysis of regimes of governance.
Download or read book Bend ceme Ultima written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of “sensual dreams [and] unexplained phenomena,” this "best-known and most-respected" coming-of-age classic from the godfather of Chicano literature follows a young boy growing up in the llano, or plains, of post-World War II New Mexico, and the generous curandera who introduces him to the sacred side of life (New York Times). A PBS Great American Read · Winner of the Premio Quinto Sol Award · Recipient of the National Humanities Medal · With a new Foreword by author, playwright, and stage director Denise Chavez; a new Afterword by award-winning journalist and author Carmela Padilla; and a new essay by Manuel Muñoz, a Macarthur Fellow and winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. “I pulled this baby into the light of life . . . Only I will know his destiny.” Antonio Marez is six years old when the woman who helped usher him into the world comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Venerated by some as a miracle-worker—and disparaged by others as a bruja—Ultima, a curandera, or healer, opens Tony’s eyes to the spiritual roots of his culture, and introduces him to a magical, if sometimes frightening, new world: a realm in which she operates as a shaman. Suddenly, the ordinary challenges and triumphs of childhood become extraordinary. As Ultima shows Tony how to cure ailments, reverse curses, and restore peace to those who have lost it, he embarks on a singular quest, one in which he probes the family ties that bind and rend him, questions the Catholicism that shaped him, and explores the Spanish, Mexican, and Native American influences that informed not only his heritage, but his very sense of self. And at each life turn there is Ultima, who was there the day he was born . . . and will nurture the birth of his soul. A rich and wondrous story that reveals universal truths about the human condition and celebrates the beauty of Chicano culture. Includes a Reading Group Guide.
Download or read book Textures of Terror written by Victoria Sanford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration. Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala—and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended. Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the security forces, this work reveals the deeply gendered nature of power and violence in Guatemala.
Download or read book Magical Reels written by John King and published by Verso. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Latin American cinema.
Download or read book La ltima Isla written by Luis Baselga and published by Ediciones Hades. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Civilización tal y como la conocemos se precipita hacia el abismo. Un Mundo con más problemas que soluciones deberá hacer frente al Apocalipsis que atraviesa el Universo para encontrarse con nosotros. La raza humana deberá sacrificar la compasión e intentar sobrevivir en una remota Isla. Tan sólo unos pocos escogidos podrán hacer frente a los invasores e intentar que la humanidad vuelva a dominar la Tierra. Luis Baselga pone a disposición del lector conocimientos que han sido ocultados durante largo tiempo por el Poder y que ahora deben usarse por el bien común. Nos anuncia un posible futuro que a pesar del Desastre nos muestra el camino a seguir para poder resistir.
Download or read book Espana En La Busqueda de Su Destino written by Howard Headworth and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is two years after the entry in Granada by the Christians in 1492. In this brilliant sequel to his first historical novel Al-Andalus: His last years, Howard Headworth elaborates a rich mix of personal drama and historical detail, and presents a magnificent sense of the place. Including the military campaigns of the great captain in Italy against the French, the wedding of the Infanta Jeanne in Flanders with Philip the Beautiful, the scandals of the Borgias in Rome and The Adventures of Christopher Columbus in the Indies in search of gold, the Catholic Monarchs seeks To forge the future grandeur and destiny of Spain. Howard Headworth lives in Almeria, Spain, for twenty years. He was born in Wales and studied geology at the university there and at the Imperial College in London. He uses his great experience as a scientific director as well as his passion for the history of his adopted country in this historical novel.
Download or read book Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony written by L. Detwiler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing twenty-first century contexts, ground-breaking scenarios, and innovative mediums for this highly contested life writing genre, this volume showcases a new generation of testimonio scholarship.
