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“martha d escobar”

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  • Captivity Beyond Prisons

    Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants

    by Martha D. Escobar ...
    Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a “fix” for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full-length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants.Starting in the 1990s, the United States saw tremendous expansion in the number of ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • THE LEGEND OF FOO FOO AND THE GOLDEN MONKS IMPERIAL VERSION English/Mandarin

    by Cynthia Sambataro, Paul Sambataro ...
    Illustrated by Martha I Escobar García ...
    High on the tippy top of the Glorious Purple Mountains of China's, the Golden Monks were summoned by Emperor Wu of Han. Emperor Wu wanted to know when untruths or lies were told him by people entering his court. The Golden monks in all their wisdom created the Foo Dog. The second book in the origin story of the Foo Dog, the lavish illustrations brings to life a magical story and statue rich in ... Read more

    $16.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Life in the New Cuba

    by Julia Cooke ...
    Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, SanterÃtrainees, pregnant ... Read more

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  • Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology

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    MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."--From the IntroductionFrom the sun-drenched beaches of a beautiful, flamboyan-covered island to the cool, hard ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Brown

    The Last Discovery of America

    by Richard Rodriguez ...
    In this dazzling memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. But more than simply a book about race, Brown is about America in the broadest sense—a look at what our country is, full of ... Read more

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  • Barrio Libre

    Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier

    by Gilberto Rosas ...
    The city of Nogales straddles the border running between Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican side, marginalized youths calling themselves Barrio Libre (Free 'Hood) employ violence, theft, and bribery to survive, often preying on undocumented migrants who navigate the city's sewer system to cross the US-Mexico border. In this book, Gilberto Rosas draws on his in-depth ethnographic research ... Read more

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  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    by John L. Kessell ...
    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Two Sisters and a Piano and Other Plays

    by Nilo Cruz ...
    Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban American playwright in the United States and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize. In his plays, Cruz almost always journeys back to Cuba, even when the play is not set there. Cruz is a sensualist, a conjurer of mysterious voyages and luxuriant landscapes. He is a poetic chronicler, a documentarian of the presence of Latin ... Read more

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  • The Mexican Cult of Death in Myth, Art and Literature

    by Barbara Brodman ...
    "The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips. The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it, it is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love." Thus Octavio Paz describes a cultural phenomenon that has for centuries fascinated scholars and aficionados of virtually every field ... Read more

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  • Translated Woman

    Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story

    by Ruth Behar ...
    Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernández, a Mexican street peddler. The tale of Esperanza's extraordinary life yields unexpected and profound reflections on the mutual desires that bind together anthropologists and their "subjects." ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • An Other's Mind

    by Luis Quiros ...
    An Others Mind is a landmark and brilliant piece of research on Social Policy and its relationship with covert and overt institutional racism. Professor Quiros addresses everyday racism in corporate America, not-for-profit agencies and academic settings. It is written with a combination of depth and clarity of the haves and have nots. He gives clear examples of discrimination, oppression and ... Read more

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  • On Strike and on Film

    Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America

    by Ellen R. Baker ...
    In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines — an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film, Ellen Baker examines the building of a leftist union that linked class ... Read more

    $26.59 USD