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Gringos

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1590206541
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Gringos written by Charles Portis and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Portis’s fourth novel—a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation—whatever it takes to remain “the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers.” But when Jimmy’s laid-back lifestyle is seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of “hippies” (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border existence faces a clear and present danger.

Gringos in Paradise

Author : Barry Golson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416547835
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Gringos in Paradise written by Barry Golson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Year in Provence meets Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House in this lively and entertaining account of a couple's year building their dream house in Mexico. In 2004, Barry Golson wrote an award-winning article for AARP magazine about Mexican hot spots for retirees longing for a lifestyle they couldn't afford in the United States. A year later, he and his wife Thia were taking part in the growing trend of retiring abroad. They sold their Manhattan apartment, packed up their SUV, and moved to one of those idyllic hot spots, the surfing and fishing village of Sayulita on Mexico's Pacific coast. With humor and charm, Golson details the year he and his wife spent settling into their new life and planning and building their dream home. Sayulita -- population 1,500, not including stray dogs or pelicans -- is a never-dull mixture of traditional Mexican customs and new, gringo-influenced change. Before long, the Golsons had been absorbed into the rhythms and routines of village life: they adopted a pair of iguanas named Iggy Pop and Iggy Mom, got sick and got cured by a doctor who charged them sixteen dollars a visit, made lasting friends with Mexicans and fellow expatriates, and discovered the skill and artistry of local craftsmen. But their daily lives were mostly dedicated to the difficult yet satisfying process of building their house. It took them almost six months to begin building -- nothing is simple (or speedy) in Mexico -- and incredibly, they completed construction in another six. They engaged a Mexican architect, builder, and landscape designer who not only built their home but also changed their lives; encountered uproariously odd bureaucracy; and ultimately experienced a lifetime's worth of education about the challenges and advantages of living in Mexico. The Golsons lived (and are still living) the dream of many -- not only of going off to a tropical paradise but also of building something beautiful, becoming a part of a new world, making lasting friends, and transforming their lives. As much about family and friendship as about house-building, Gringos in Paradise is an immensely readable and illuminating book about finding a personal paradise and making it a home.

Gringos in Mexico

Author : Edward Simmen
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875650296
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Gringos in Mexico written by Edward Simmen and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spanish for Gringos

Author : William C. Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764176784
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Spanish for Gringos written by William C. Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How the Gringos Stole Tequila

Author : Chantal Martineau
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595348816
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book How the Gringos Stole Tequila written by Chantal Martineau and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once little more than party fuel, tequila has graduated to the status of fine sipping spirit. How the Gringos Stole Tequila traces the spirit's evolution in America from frat-house firewater to luxury good. But there's more to the story than tequila as upmarket drinking trend. Author Chantal Martineau spent several years immersing herself in the world of tequila -- traveling to visit distillers and agave farmers in Mexico, meeting and tasting with leading experts and mixologists around the United States, and interviewing academics on either side of the border who have studied the spirit. The result is a book that offers readers a glimpse into the social history and ongoing impact of this one-of-a-kind drink. It addresses issues surrounding the sustainability of the limited resource that is agave, the preservation of traditional production methods, and the agave advocacy movement that has grown up alongside the spirit's swelling popularity. In addition to discussing the culture and politics of Mexico's most popular export, this book also takes readers on a colorful tour of the country's Tequila Trail, as well as introducing them to the mother of tequila: mezcal.

Greasers and Gringos

Author : Steven Bender
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814798888
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Greasers and Gringos written by Steven Bender and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer criticizes media portrayals of latino/as because it leads to unfair judgements in the court system.This is an important look at stereotyping in American culture.

Gringos in Paradise

Author : Barry Golson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743276353
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Gringos in Paradise written by Barry Golson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lighthearted, uplifting, yet practical account, Golson details the year he and his wife spent building their dream house in Mexico for this first fun and informative chronicle of the new trend of retiring south of the border. Photos.

Los Gringos

Author : Henry Augustus Wise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Los Gringos written by Henry Augustus Wise and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chicano Manual on How to Handle Gringos

Author : Jos? Angel Guti?rrez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920932
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Chicano Manual on How to Handle Gringos written by Jos? Angel Guti?rrez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under this somewhat threatening title, the renowned civil rights leader Jos? Angel Guti?rrez provides a guidebook to minority empowerment through the use of analysis, practical experience and anecdote. His primary goal is the conversion of Latino demographic power into educational, economic and political power. In an incisive introduction, Guti?rrez analyzes the types of power and evaluates Chicano and Latino access to power at various levels in U.S. society. In very plain, down-to-earth language and examples, Guti?rrez takes pains to make his broad knowledge and experience available to everyone, but especially to those who want to be activists for themselves and their communities. For him the empowerment of a minority or working-class person can transfer into greater empowerment of the whole community. This manual penned by the founder of the only successful Hispanic political party, La Raza Unida, brings together an impressive breadth of models to either follow or avoid. Quite often, Guti?rrezÍs voice is not only the seasoned voice of reason, but also that of humor, wry wit and satire. If nothing else, The Chicano Manual on How to Handle Gringos is a wonderful survey of the Chicano and Latino community on the move in all spheres of life in the United States on the very eve of its demographic and cultural ascendancy.

The Gringos

Author : B. M. Bower
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gringos written by B. M. Bower and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the famous American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West - B. M. Bower's present novel 'The Gringos' was first published in the year 1913.

The Gringos

Author : B. M. Bower
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gringos written by B. M. Bower and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1924 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gringos Get Rich

Author : Eunice Rojas
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817360972
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Gringos Get Rich written by Eunice Rojas and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents counterimperialism in Chilean music since the 1960s Gringos Get Rich: Anti-Americanism in Chilean Music examines anti-Americanism in Latin America as manifested in Chilean music in recent history. From a folk-based movement in the 1960s and early 1970s to underground punk rock groups during the Pinochet regime, to socially conscious hip-hop artists of postdictatorship Chile, Chilean music has followed several left-leaning transnational musical trends to grapple with Chile's fluctuating relationship with the United States. Eunice Rojas's innovative analysis introduces US readers to a wide swath of Chilean musicians and their powerful protest songs and provides a representative and long view of the negative influences of the United States in Latin America. Much of the criticism of the United States in Chile's music centers on the perception of the United States as a heavy-handed source of capitalist imperialism that is exploitative of and threatening to Chile's poor and working-class public and to Chilean cultural independence and integrity. Rojas incorporates Antonio Gramsci's theories about the difficulties of struggles for cultural power within elitist capitalist systems to explore anti-Americanism and anti-capitalist music. Ultimately, Rojas shows how the music from various genres, time periods, and political systems attempts to act as a counterhegemonic alternative to Chile's political, cultural, and economic status quo. Rojas's insight is timely as a political trend toward the right continues in the Americas. There is also increased interest in and acceptance of popular song lyrics as literary texts. The book will appeal to Latin Americanists, ethnomusicologists, scholars of popular culture and international relations, students, and general readers.

Los Gringos

Author : Lieut. Wise
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732662365
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Los Gringos written by Lieut. Wise and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Los Gringos by Lieut. Wise

Gringos... Larguense

Author : Antonio Zurita
Publisher : Palibrio
ISBN 13 : 1463332688
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Gringos... Larguense written by Antonio Zurita and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mi nombre es Antonio Anteliz Zurita, nací un 5 de Agosto de 1947 en la ciudad de Puebla. Curse mi Primaria en la Escuela Motolinia, mi Secundaria en el Seminario Salesiano de Don Bosco en Puebla y en San Pedro Tlaquepaque Jalisco, mi Preparatoria en el Colegio San SEBASTIAN de Aparicio, estuve 3 años en la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, cursando la carrera de Ciencias Económicas Administrativas. En 1968 me vine a la Ciudad de Chicago, en 1970 comencé a escribir sobre deportes en el semanario más prestigioso de la "Ciudad de los Vientos", LA RAZA, posteriormente escribí en los diferentes periódicos y revistas de Chicago, como EL NORTE, EL HERALDO, CHICAGO DEPORTIVO, EL EXTRA, EL TELEGUIA, ETC.; estuve tres años trabajando en la radio LA TREMENDA, en un programa titulado "Hablando de Deportes". Fundé con Jorge Alvarez el primer grupo Teatral de Chicago. Coproduje un cine video de la película titulada "El chorizo del carnicero" y escribí dicho libreto. Hice televisión en Chicago en el programa de Alva Molina en el canal 26, he salido en UNIVISION en el programa de República Deportiva, Despierta América. En TELEMUNDO en Sálvese Quien Pueda. Incursioné en el cine mexicano actuando en 8 cines videos al lado de Mario Almada, Alfonso Zayas, Flaco Guzmán, El Flaco Ibáñez, Edgardo Gazcon, Armando Araiza, Cesar Bono, etc. Tengo un personaje cómico de un monaguillo bien irreverente llamado "Agapito Melocras" y conjuntamente a mi compañero el sacerdote "El cura melcacho", les hemos abierto a varios comediantes su Show. Tengo alrededor de ocho libros listos para la imprenta. Espero que cuando sepa que ya hay otro libro mío en el mercado lo compre porque va ser interesante y diferente.

Los Gringos

Author : H. A. Wise
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Gringos written by H. A. Wise and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The title—Los Gringos—with which this volume has been christened, is the epithet—and rather a reproachful one—used in California and Mexico to designate the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon race; the definition of the word is somewhat similar to that of Greenhorns, in modern parlance, or Mohawks in the days of the Spectator. Although many of the scenes were passed in those countries, yet the narrative takes a wider range, and embraces portions of the South American Continent in Brazil, Chili, and Peru,—together with visits to some of the groups of the Pacific at the Sandwich, Marquesas and Society Islands." -Preface

Greasers and Gringos

Author : Steven W. Bender
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081470901X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Greasers and Gringos written by Steven W. Bender and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the origin of the term “greaser” is debated, its derogatory meaning never has been. From silent movies like The Greaser’s Revenge (1914) and The Girl and the Greaser (1913) with villainous title characters, to John Steinbeck's portrayals of Latinos as lazy, drunken, and shiftless in his 1935 novel Tortilla Flat, to the image of violent, criminal, drug-using gang members of East LA, negative stereotypes of Latinos/as have been plentiful in American popular culture far before Latinos/as became the most populous minority group in the U.S. In Greasers and Gringos, Steven W. Bender examines and surveys these stereotypes and their evolution, paying close attention to the role of mass media in their perpetuation. Focusing on the intersection between stereotypes and the law, Bender reveals how these negative images have contributed significantly to the often unfair treatment of Latino/as under American law by the American legal system. He looks at the way demeaning constructions of Latinos/as influence their legal treatment by police, prosecutors, juries, teachers, voters, and vigilantes. He also shows how, by internalizing negative social images, Latinos/as and other subordinated groups view themselves and each other as inferior. Although fighting against cultural stereotypes can be a daunting task, Bender reminds us that, while hard to break, they do not have to be permanent. Greasers and Gringos begins the charge of debunking existing stereotypes and implores all Americans to re-imagine Latinos/as as legal and social equals.

Costa Rica the Old “Gringos” Reality

Author : Jon Stegenga
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491855959
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Costa Rica the Old “Gringos” Reality written by Jon Stegenga and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Gringos Who Contributed To This Gude Book Have A Combined 90 Plus Years Of Living Real Life At The Neighbourhood Level, Mostly In Small Towns In Costa Rica