Author: Ruth Glasser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Elsa Nunez
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1475802447
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Hanging Out and Hanging on: From the Projects to the Campus chronicles the progress of students from Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut, who are enrolled in the Dual College Enrollment Program (DCEP) at Eastern Connecticut State University. “Hanging Out” sets the stage for describing the program by first reaching back in time to tell of Dr. Núñez’s own beginnings in Puerto Rico and Newark, New Jersey, of her struggles as a non-English speaking elementary school student and her triumphs in high school and college. The next section of the book describes the lives of Latinos in Connecticut and the social, economic, and educational challenges they have faced over time. Her personal experiences and desire to improve the lives of the underprivileged led Dr. Núñez to create the DCEP Program. Through the words of faculty and staff and the personal accounts of six DCEP students, you will read stories of desperation and hope, of struggle and triumph, of heart-breaking failure and stunning success. We hope their story can serve as a model for other communities to follow.

Author: Andrés Torres
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592134182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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The first comprehensive look at the growing Latino presence in New England.

Author: Dorca Cintron
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483692752
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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EL LIBRO---------- ES SOBRE LAS OSCURAS EMOCIONES, DIFICULTADES, Y LUCHAS,QUE CASI ME LLEVARON AL PUNTO DEL SUICIDIO,SOBRE LO QUE MI OJOS VIERON, MI CORAZON, MI CUERPO, MI MENTE EN UN TORBELLINO SENTIAN,TODAS ESCRITAS EN POEMAS.PERO TAMBIEN COMO DE TODAS ESAS TERRIBLES EMOCIONES, TENIA A ANGELES QUE ME VELABAN Y A UN DIOS TODOPODEROSO QUE ME AMABA.

Author: Jody C. Baumgartner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313051836
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Baumgartner, Kada, and thier contributors examine presidential impeachment in such varied settings as the United States, Russia, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, the Philippines, and Madagascar. In all of these countries there has been a serious impeachment attempt within the past decade or so. The results of each impeachment attempt vary, from unnsuccessful attempts to those which were successful; in the latter case, some resulted in presidents remaining in office, others in removal of the president, and, in one case, the forced resignation of a president. The common framework of each analysis includes a discussion of the historical and constitional bases of the presidency, the institutional balance of power, provisions for impeachment, and the structure of party politics in each country; in addition, the role that public opinion plays in the process is discussed. While broad, the framework permits comparison between the cases and some general conclusions about all phases of the impeachment process and executive accountability can be drawn. One of the most important conclusions is that contrary to popular wisdom, impeachment is most definitively not a strictly legal process, but rather one that is highly political from start to finish. As the volume makes clear, it is most useful to view impeachment by way of examining the intersection of executive-legislative relations, partisan political conflict, and public opinion.

Author: Rolando Hinojosa
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1558857877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side by side, in good times and bad. “The world’s a drugstore: you’ll find a little bit of just about everything, and it’s usually on sale, too. Belken County, Texas is part of the world, and so, it’s no different; its people are packaged in cellophane and they, too, come in all sizes, shapes and in a choice of colors.” Some are brave; others are craven. Some are sharp, and some are dull. Death calls on a regular basis in this first installment of Hinojosa’s acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series. Jehú Malacara was seven when his mother died and nine when his father passed. He has family, but it’s Don Víctor Peláez who takes him in and makes him an integral part of the Peláez Tent Show. When la muerte comes for Don Víctor, Jehú is orphaned again. Others die in bar room brawls, in a clandestine amorous tryst at the local Holiday Inn and on the street. Hinojosa paints his canvas with a montage of life’s events—births, weddings, friendships and love affairs—but his brushwork all too frequently highlights the discrimination experienced by Mexican Americans. They lose their land to Anglos, are paid with rotten fruit for their labor and are refused admission to certain cafes. But life goes on. Young men go to war and old men remember their wars, whether the Mexican Revolution, World War II or the Korean War. This classic novel was originally published in the early 1970s as Estampas del Valle and in the early 1980s as The Valley. Rolando Hinojosa’s Klail City Death Trip Series is required reading for anyone interested in life along the Texas-Mexico border in the twentieth century.

Author: Amaya Morera
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463341903
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Jimena es la nueva Duquesa de Abrantera y ha tenido que trasladarse con sus hijos pequeños a vivir a Sevilla dejando a Eugenia en Madrid. En la madurez, contempla la vida con otros ojos. Pocas cosas consiguen sorprenderla del mismo modo que antes. Tan enamorada de Fernando como el día que se casaron y siempre atenta a sus hijos, ha cumplido una edad en la que empieza a plantearse el por qué de cuanto le ocurre a ella o a sus seres más cercanos. Con su característico ingenio, Jimena comenta en esta obra las cosas de la vida de las que le gustaría recibir explicación y que ella debe procurar contestar en una novela que le encarga una editorial. Amaya Morera es Licenciada en Derecho y Doctora en Historia Moderna. Actualmente vive en Madrid donde compatibiliza sus investigaciones sobre mobiliario español con la escritura. La pasión que siente por la Historia del Mueble sólo es comparable con la fascinación que le produce la vida que, según ella, "nunca dejará de sorprenderme". Troncosaurios y Por Qués completa la trilogía de "cosas de la vida". La autora ha cedido el 100% de los beneficios que obtenga por la venta de esta novela a los Proyectos de la Edad Dorada de la ONG Mensajeros de la Paz

Author: David W. Foster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317716779
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1078

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This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology presumes a high level of linguistic command of Spanish, and it contains footnotes to allusions and cultural references, as well as words and phrases not found in standard bilingual dictionaries used in the US. Emphasis is on major 20th-century writers, while important works from colonial and 19th-century literature as also included. The diverse selections of Literature Hispanoamericana will enable students to have a more sustained exposure to major voices of Latin American literature than possible in anthologies built around fragments. By focusing on fewer authors but more significant selections from their writings, students will have a greater grasp of major canonical figures as well as emergent voices.

Author:
Publisher: SCERP and IRSC publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Sergio D. Elizondo
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 1558857869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Óscar Balboa and Valentín Rodríguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two “strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad” are the novel’s principal voices as they lie dying. In other chapters, óscar remembers traveling north with his parents as a young boy to pick crops and joining farm workers’ protest marches. Songs of all types—symphonic, orchestral and protest—infuse the narrative: “We’ll summon the spirit of a poet so that he can adapt our people’s story through time and set it to music.” Elizondo’s short and tragic novel bears witness to la raza’s struggles for rights, whether in the fields, the work place or on college campuses. Originally published in Spanish and now available for the first time in English, this classic of Mexican-American literature provides insight into the Chicano civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star is a profoundly disturbing and moving denunciation of bigotry and discrimination.