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Book Synopsis Vicki and a Summer of Change! ¡Vicki Y Un Verano de Cambio! by : Raquel M. Ortiz
Download or read book Vicki and a Summer of Change! ¡Vicki Y Un Verano de Cambio! written by Raquel M. Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by actual events in 1969, this beautifully illustrated book tells the story of how people in East Harlem, New York united with the Young Lords Organization to spark positive neighborhood changes.Vicki and A Summer of Change! ¡Vicki y un verano de cambio! follows Vicki and Valentina, her older sister, who live in East Harlem/El Barrio. The streets are overrun with rotting garbage because sanitation trucks rarely pick up trash in the neighborhood. Children and adults are getting sick.Members of the Young Lords Organization, Puerto Ricans, Latinx, and African Americans, start sweeping the streets. Valentina encourages Vicki to take part saying, "You're never too young to make a difference!" The sisters eagerly join their neighbors and discover that they can help change the world.
Book Synopsis Vicki and a Summer of Change! Coloring Book / ¡Vicki Y Un Verano de Cambio! Libro de Colorear by : Raquel M. Ortiz
Download or read book Vicki and a Summer of Change! Coloring Book / ¡Vicki Y Un Verano de Cambio! Libro de Colorear written by Raquel M. Ortiz and published by Red Sugarcane Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This coloring book includes illustrations from Vicki and A Summer of Change! ¡Vicki y un verano de cambio! Inspired by actual events in 1969, the book is about how residents of East Harlem, New York unite with the activist Young Lords Organization to spark positive neighborhood changes. The story follows Vicki and her older sister in their journey discovering they too can help change their community and the world.
Book Synopsis Through the Eyes of Rebel Women by : Iris Morales
Download or read book Through the Eyes of Rebel Women written by Iris Morales and published by Red Sugarcane Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members. They fought the "revolution within the revolution" believing that women's equality was inseparable from society's progress as a whole. Written and edited by Iris Morales, the book includes essays, interviews, and primary documents.
Book Synopsis The Young Lords by : Johanna Fernández
Download or read book The Young Lords written by Johanna Fernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city's racist policies and contempt for the poor. Their dramatic flair, uncompromising socialist vision for a new society, skillful ability to link local problems to international crises, and uncompromising vision for a new society riveted the media, alarmed New York's political class, and challenged nationwide perceptions of civil rights and black power protest. The group called itself the Young Lords. Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police surveillance files released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law request and subsequent court battle, Johanna Fernandez has written the definitive account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a Chicago street gang to their rise and fall as a political organization in New York. Led by poor and working-class Puerto Rican youth, and consciously fashioned after the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords occupied a hospital, blocked traffic with uncollected garbage, took over a church, tested children for lead poisoning, defended prisoners, fought the military police, and fed breakfast to poor children. Their imaginative, irreverent protests and media conscious tactics won reforms, popularized socialism in the United States and exposed U.S. mainland audiences to the country's quiet imperial project in Puerto Rico. Fernandez challenges what we think we know about the sixties. She shows that movement organizers were concerned with finding solutions to problems as pedestrian as garbage collection and the removal of lead paint from tenement walls; gentrification; lack of access to medical care; childcare for working mothers; and the warehousing of people who could not be employed in deindustrialized cities. The Young Lords' politics and preoccupations, especially those concerning the rise of permanent unemployment foretold the end of the American Dream. In riveting style, Fernandez demonstrates how the Young Lords redefined the character of protest, the color of politics, and the cadence of popular urban culture in the age of great dreams.
Book Synopsis A Mirror in My Own Backstage by : Jose-Angel Figueroa
Download or read book A Mirror in My Own Backstage written by Jose-Angel Figueroa and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for writings about the Latino experience in the United States, Jose Angel Figueroa has been a major contributor to the Puerto Rican and Latino literary movement. A Mirror In My Own Backstage explores themes of migration and social justice as well as philosophical-existential reflections about love and the human experience. "This collection gives testament to Figueroa's poetic evolution; it includes some of his most classic poems along with a new crop of innovative work by this accomplished and gifted artist who masters his craft," writes distinguished scholar Edna Acosta Belen. Jose Angel "brings a unique music and imagery to the definition of what American poetry is," remarks Newark Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka. The cover and interior artwork were created by Juan Sanchez, well-known for his work combining painting and photography with media clippings and found objects to expose America's policies and practices in Puerto Rico, and obstacles facing Puerto Ricans in the U.S."
Download or read book Latinas written by Iris Morales and published by Red Sugarcane Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA is a collection of poetry and prose reflecting on women's experiences and the relationship between gender and social change. It examines inequities as women but also by class, race, ethnicity, and immigration status, and reveals Latina perspectives on important contemporary sociopolitical issues.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the Stone by : Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Download or read book Daughters of the Stone written by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land. Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world. Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past. Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together. Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart. The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.
Book Synopsis Youth Culture in Global Cinema by : Timothy Shary
Download or read book Youth Culture in Global Cinema written by Timothy Shary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Spectacular Spots by : Susan Stockdale
Download or read book Spectacular Spots written by Susan Stockdale and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You’ll be amazed to discover all the different reasons why animals have spots! What kinds of animals have spots and why do they have them? With engaging rhymes and bright, bold images, award-winning author-illustrator Susan Stockdale introduces readers to a range of spotted animals, familiar and exotic, and some of the benefits of their patterns. In addition to providing beauty and inspiration, spots can help a creature masquerade as a different, more threatening species, provide camouflage for hunting or hiding, or scare off predators. From the ladybug to the blue poison dart frog, the green anaconda to the white-tailed deer fawn, these spectacularly spotted creatures will delight and fascinate budding naturalists. This entrancing companion to Stripes of All Types (130,000 copies sold in a variety of formats) features energetic rhyming text and beautifully detailed paintings that pop off the page. An afterword tells a little bit more about each animal and where it lives, and readers can test their knowledge of animal spots with a fun matching game at the end.
Book Synopsis Growing Up Gonzales by : Felix Rojas
Download or read book Growing Up Gonzales written by Felix Rojas and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-act play about two brothers growing up in the Bronx in the 1970s. When Johnny Gonzales loses his younger brother, Cisco, it becomes his responsibility to clean out his deceased brother's apartment. While cleaning the apartment, Johnny discovers a shoebox filled with pages and pages of notes and stories of their past. He dives head first into Cisco's off beat world and discovers a brother he never really knew.
Download or read book Malambo written by Lucía Charún-Illescas and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Production Notebooks by : Mark Bly
Download or read book The Production Notebooks written by Mark Bly and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, offerring an inside view of theatre today from the literary manager's point of view.
Book Synopsis The Lettered Barriada by : Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo
Download or read book The Lettered Barriada written by Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico's intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international peers and imagined themselves as part of a global community. They also entered the world of politics through the creation of the Socialist Party, which became an electoral force in the first half of the twentieth century. Meléndez-Badillo shows how these workers produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico's national mythology. By following these ragtag intellectuals as they became politicians and statesmen, Meléndez-Badillo also demonstrates how they engaged in racial and gender silencing, epistemic violence, and historical erasures in the fringes of society. Ultimately, The Lettered Barriada is about the politics of knowledge production and the tensions between working-class intellectuals and the state. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Book Synopsis Heartbeats, Rhythms, and Fire by : Jose Angel Figueroa
Download or read book Heartbeats, Rhythms, and Fire written by Jose Angel Figueroa and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartbeats, Rhythms, And Fire is José Angel Figueroa's new poetry and prose collection. A leading writer of the Nuyorican literary movement, Figueroa is best known for his powerful social commentary. A master of poetic storytelling, visual imagery, and metaphor, his writings-sometimes lyrical and rhythmic, sometimes autobiographical, and sometimes politically charged- do not fit neatly into one category. Heartbeats, Rhythms, And Fire explores universal themes of the human experience as well as major present-day social concerns. Poems, personal essays, monologues, and elegies deliver an intriguing range of storytelling approaches. Figueroa invites the reader to question the origins of self, the roots of love, and the unpredictability vibrating from everyday life. Figueroa's accounts of migration journeys and struggles against racism offer an insider perspective. His narratives of immigration, poverty, and violence against women uplift the voices of everyday people, while others capture the passion and fire of activists who toppled the governor of Puerto Rico in 2019, of Erica Garner who fought against police violence, and of Oscar Lopez Rivera, the former Puerto Rican political prisoner. This impressive collection is a voyage that ebbs and flows arriving to what remains when you "can't kill relentless faith born from the spirituals of stardust and many rivers."
Author :Jessie Wee Publisher :Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd ISBN 13 :9814561843 Total Pages :67 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (145 download)
Book Synopsis The Adventures of Mooty: Book 1 by : Jessie Wee
Download or read book The Adventures of Mooty: Book 1 written by Jessie Wee and published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Mooty depicts the delightful adventures of the lovable little mouse, Mooty, who endears himself to a community of animals, birds and insects and becomes their hero.
Download or read book Best gift of all written by Julia Alvarez and published by Alfaguara Infantil. This book was released on 2009 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Latina author Julia Alvarez recreates the legend of Dominican folk character La Vieja Belen in this delighful bilingual rhyming story, beautifully illustrated by Dominican artist Ruddy Nuñez. Alvarez's retelling keeps the magic of the traditional account while contributing a down-to-earth, timely moral: "Of all the gifts you can give, your time is the best."
Book Synopsis Voices from Puerto Rico / Voces Desde Puerto Rico by : Iris Morales
Download or read book Voices from Puerto Rico / Voces Desde Puerto Rico written by Iris Morales and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico--the most devastating cyclone to strike the island in almost a century. In this collection, twenty-two activists, artists, front-line organizers, and institution builders describe the storm's deadly impact on a people already living under oppressive conditions resulting from more than 120 years of US colonialism. The first-person accounts, poetry, and essays detail how Puerto Ricans organized themselves in the hurricane's immediate aftermath. The growing activism opens a new chapter in the fight for self-determination and freedom from colonialism and exploitation.---------------El 20 de septiembre de 2017, el huracán María azotó a Puerto Rico--el ciclón más devastador que golpeó la isla en casi un siglo. En esta colección, veintidós activistas, artistas, organizadores, y formadores de instituciones describen el impacto mortal de la tormenta en un pueblo que ya vive condiciones opresivas como resultado de más de 120 años de colonialismo estadounidense. Los relatos, la poesía, y los ensayos detallan cómo los puertorriqueños se movilizaron y organizaron inmediatamente después del huracán. El creciente activismo abre un nuevo capítulo en la lucha por la autodeterminación y la lucha por liberarse del colonialismo y la explotación.
