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Voices from the Barrio

Author : Maxine Borowsky Junge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781534632004
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Barrio written by Maxine Borowsky Junge and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells of story of a groundbreaking event in Chicano history. Here, for the first time, is the complete history of "Con Safos: Reflections of Life in the Barrio" the first ever Chicano literary magazine. Created by a legendary group of furiously independent barrio intellectuals and artists, connected to no established group and working on their own dime,10 magazine issues were produced in the late 1960s and 1970s in East Los Angeles. Many writers and artists who would later become well-known were first published in "Con Safos." Bilingual, using Calo' and the slang of the barrios, "Con Safos" helped to bring to attention an important inner vision of the barrio, Mexican American family life, "El Movimiento" --the Chicano civil rights protest movement-- and "El Moratorium" the Chicano movement against the Vietnam War. It used humor as its sword to tilt at establishment windmills. It made fun of everything--even itself as it took on the most serious questions of the day including racism and discrimination. There were those that hated it and those that loved it, but everybody read it. As it became the "Voice of the Barrio" it helped create a Chicano aesthetic enhancing the much-needed development of Chicano identity. In the last chapter, "Con Safos" "vatos" tell what they are doing now. Their contemporary lives reflect and illuminate the persistence of creativity through the life span in these Chicano men.

Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice

Author : Juanita Díaz-Cotto
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477305963
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice written by Juanita Díaz-Cotto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive study of Chicanas encountering the U.S. criminal justice system is set within the context of the international war on drugs as witnessed at street level in Chicana/o barrios. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice uses oral history to chronicle the lives of twenty-four Chicana pintas (prisoners/former prisoners) repeatedly arrested and incarcerated for non-violent, low-level economic and drug-related crimes. It also provides the first documentation of the thirty-four-year history of Sybil Brand Institute, Los Angeles' former women's jail. In a time and place where drug war policies target people of color and their communities, drug-addicted Chicanas are caught up in an endless cycle of police abuse, arrest, and incarceration. They feel the impact of mandatory sentencing laws, failing social services and endemic poverty, violence, racism, and gender discrimination. The women in this book frankly discuss not only their jail experiences, but also their family histories, involvement with gangs, addiction to drugs, encounters with the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems, and their successful and unsuccessful attempts to recover from addiction and reconstitute fractured families. The Chicanas' stories underscore the amazing resilience and determination that have allowed many of the women to break the cycle of abuse. Díaz-Cotto also makes policy recommendations for those who come in contact with Chicanas/Latinas caught in the criminal justice system.

Barrio Dreams

Author : Silviana Wood
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532478
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Barrio Dreams written by Silviana Wood and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first-ever anthology of plays by Chicana playwright Silviana Wood"--Provided by publisher.

In the Barrio

Author : Alma Flor Ada
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780590275699
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book In the Barrio written by Alma Flor Ada and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many interesting and colorful things happen each day in the neighborhood.

Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience [3 volumes]

Author : Rodolfo F. Acuña Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313087830
Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Voices of the U.S. Latino Experience [3 volumes] written by Rodolfo F. Acuña Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and experiences of the diverse groups labeled Latinos in this country are abundantly documented in this major new collection. From the Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1803 to remembrances of life on the frontier, to the Young Lords platform of 1969, to a discussion of Latinos and the war on Iraq today, this 3-volume collection showcases more than 400 crucial primary documents from and concerning the major Latino groups in the United States. Sources include letters, memoirs, speeches, articles, essays, interviews, treaties, government reports, testimony, and more. The voices include whites as well as Latinos, prominent and obscure, and Americans as well as foreigners. The bulk of the primary documents concern Mexico and the United States and Mexican Americans, who paved the way for immigrants from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Central and South America to come. The scope also includes primary documents pertaining to events in Latin American and Caribbean history that have had an impact on these groups. Each primary document has a short introduction, placing it in historical and cultural context. An introduction that gives an historical overview, a chronology, a selected bibliography chock full of useful websites, and a set index provide added value. Sample documents: memoirs of early Texas, commentary by a Mexican diplomat on the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848, essay on the social condition of New Mexico in 1852, Cuban independence leader Jose Marti in New York on race (1894), El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez— a ballad about a Mexican who stood up to the Texas Rangers in 1901, excerpts from an autobiography by Ella Winter on school segregation in the 1930s, a Latino soldier's reminiscences of World War II, testimony from a Bracero worker in the 1950s, article on Cuban Miami in the 1960s, socioeconomic profile of Dominicans in the United States in 2000, interview with Subcomandante Marcos from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.

It Doesn't Have to be this Way

Author : Luis J. Rodriguez
Publisher : Children's Book Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892392032
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book It Doesn't Have to be this Way written by Luis J. Rodriguez and published by Children's Book Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.

Barrio Harmonics

Author : Steven Joseph Loza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780895511676
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Barrio Harmonics written by Steven Joseph Loza and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores Chicano, Mexican, and Cuban musical forms and styles and their transformation in the United States. Employing musical, historical, and sociocultural analyses, Loza addresses issues such as marginality, identity, intercultural conflict and aesthetics, reinterpretation, postnationalism, and mestizaje--the mixing of race and culture--in the production and reception of Chicano/Latino music. Barrio Harmonics opens with a comprehensive overview that begins with music in the US Southwest in the seventeenth century and ends with the Grammy Awards for Latin American music in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In the following chapters, Loza discusses artists whose music ranges from sones, rancheros, and corridos to Latin jazz, R & B, and rock and roll. Among those he considers in depth are Pancho Sánchez, Lalo Guerrero, Tito Puente, and Los Lobos. He also surveys the contributions of scores of other individuals and groups who have shaped the current contour of Chicano/Latino music. Other topics include the music industry and the impact of globalization, the African diaspora, and Latin American music in Japan. In addition, Loza offers a candid assessment of intellectual capitalism and the void of nonwestern voices in contemporary scholarship.

Barrio America

Author : A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541644433
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Barrio America written by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.

Resisting Gentrification and Displacement

Author : Vicky Muñiz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780815331674
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Resisting Gentrification and Displacement written by Vicky Muñiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides insights into the importance of sociocultural factors in contemporary urban development. By injecting gender, culture, and race into our understanding of community choice and resistance to economic pressure, the author enhances our understanding of the contemporary social geography in cities with large ethnic/racial populations. The focus of this study is on Puerto Rican women who resist gentrification and displacement in a New York City neighborhood. The study highlights the cultural importancepuertorrique-asattach to their neighborhood and the threat to their cultural identities in the wake of displacement. The author documents the struggle of barrio residents against gentrification in the context of the neighborhood and the local housing court. She captures the women's voices as they challenge husbands, landlords, and government agencies, interact with other class/ethnic groups, and construct strategies for resisting displacement as well as new identities for themselves.This detailed study of the political mobilization of working class Latinas will be of interest to feminists, urban studies scholars, and housing policy makers. Index. Bibliography

Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio

Author : Betto Arcos
Publisher : Adalberto Arcos Landa
ISBN 13 : 9780578852560
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Music Stories from the Cosmic Barrio written by Betto Arcos and published by Adalberto Arcos Landa. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 150 stories about music from all over Latin America, including Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, as well as Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The stories were originally broadcast on public radio programs on NPR, PRX's The World, BCC, KPCC and Latino USA. The book contains 12 chapters, each following a specific narrative: music and identity; education, community building, immigration, women's empowerment, adversity, social unrest and violence, instruments, producers, place and nation; the music of Brazil, Cuba music and the diaspora. The book's main focus is Latin American music from across the continent, with an emphasis on the music of Latinos and other ethnic groups in Los Angeles. The book also tells a personal story: the author's constant, tireless search for stories that help explain how complex and diverse humans are and how we share something so special that brings us together: music. This edition includes illustrations by Alec Dempster.

Liberating Voices

Author : Douglas Schuler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262693666
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Voices written by Douglas Schuler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.

Working in the Dark

Author : Jimmy Baca
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0890135932
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Working in the Dark written by Jimmy Baca and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baca passionately explores the troubled years of his youth, from which he emerged with heightened awareness of his ethnic identify as a Chicano, his role as a witness for the misunderstood tribal life of the barrio, and his redemptive vocation as a poet.

From the Barrio to the Board Room

Author : Robert Renteria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610660112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book From the Barrio to the Board Room written by Robert Renteria and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new foreword, a new epilogue, and illustrations from the Mi Barrio comic book version, this new release of From the Barrio to the Board Room shares Robert Renteria's journey from East L.A. and gang and drug life to becoming VP of a publicly traded company, owner of his own businesses and now his work as a civic leader, empowering our nation's youth to stay in school, out of gangs and off drugs.

Lesbian and Gay Voices

Author : Frances A. Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313095442
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian and Gay Voices written by Frances A. Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Nancy Garden, the highly acclaimed author of Young Adult Fiction, this thoughtfully written annotated bibliography reviews picture books, young adult fiction, short stories nonfiction works and biographies for young readers. Entries specify the age level appropriateness of each work as well as literary awards received for the work. Each annotation is followed by a list of topics in the work which the user will find cross-referenced in the topic index. With additional recommendations on books for librarians, educators and parents, and a set of suggested guidelines for evaluating books, this user-friendly guide is valuable as both a reader resource and as collection development tool. The guide also provides author profiles of selected writers who have made outstanding contributions to this field of literature. This information is complemented by inspiring author quotes, photographs, and lists of their books categorized by age level appropriateness. The up-to-date information on helpful resources for teens and their families found here along with a select bibliography and additional indices make this comprehensive guide a powerful and important reference tool for helping young gay and lesbian readers.

Mutuality in El Barrio

Author : Carey Kasten
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531506453
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Mutuality in El Barrio written by Carey Kasten and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York’s deeply-rooted organizations On any given weekday, people stream in and out of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service’s bright, airy building on 115th Street. They are mostly mothers who find their way to LSA, sometimes only weeks after crossing the border from Mexico, having heard of the support that las hermanitas (“the little sisters”) offer. Opening a window into the world of New York’s Spanish-speaking newcomers, Mutuality in El Barrio combines oral histories with archival research of the history, spirituality, and ministry of LSA to present how this well-established organization serves vulnerable populations with a unique approach they call “mutuality.” LSA is part of a network of East Harlem’s powerful grassroots organizations that draws from the remarkable strengths of local families in its community. It is a place of healing and empowerment focused on the overall holistic health of resident families. Long-term relationships are cultivated here rather than quick fixes, and it is a place that nurtures people’s full potential as leaders, parents, and advocates for themselves. In Mutuality in El Barrio, eighteen mothers share how, through the help of LSA, they managed to navigate a strange city and an unfamiliar language in a neighborhood that has long been a site of incredible challenges and extraordinary strength, creativity, and cultural vitality. These personal accounts of mothers, long-time LSA staff, and nuns reveal how these women found solidarity, accompaniment, care, neighborhood transformation, and binding connections through mutuality that helped them grow and connect in East Harlem. Their stories shine a light on an organization that began as a small community of vowed nuns who, like these mothers, also trace their origins abroad.

The House of Impossible Loves

Author : Cristina López Barrio
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547661193
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The House of Impossible Loves written by Cristina López Barrio and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate, The House of Impossible Loves is a novel set in twentieth-century Spain and France revolving around a family of cursed women.

Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism

Author : Daniel H. Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400862612
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism written by Daniel H. Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Latin America, observers and activists have found in religion a promise of deep and long-lasting democratization. But for religion to change culture and politics, religion itself must change. Such change is not only a matter of doctrine, ritual, or institutional arrangements but also arises out of the needs, values, and ideas of average believers. Combining rich interviews and community studies in Venezuela and Colombia with analysis of broad ideological and institutional transformations, Daniel Levine examines how religious and cultural change begins and what gives it substance and lasting impact. The author focuses on the creation of self-confident popular groups among hitherto isolated and dispirited individuals. Once silent voices come to light as peasants and urban barrio dwellers reflect on their upbringing and community, on poverty and opportunity, on faith, prayer, and the Bible, and on institutions like state, school, and church. Levine also interviews priests, sisters, and pastoral agents and explains how their efforts shape the links between popular groups and the larger society. The result is a clear understanding of how relations among social and cultural levels are maintained and transformed, how programs are implemented, why they succeed or fail, and how change appears both to elites and to ordinary people. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.