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Destruction of America 2008-2050

Author : Christopher Jansen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781435705739

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Destruction of America 2008-2050 by Christopher Jansen Pdf

America is on a self-destruction road; failing to learn from history and allowing foreigners, most of whom are illegal unfettered access to American institutions. Previous empires have disappeared, so will America. Political correctness, lack of a common language, and a powerless military, coupled with politicians who are not statesmen, are all contributors to the inevitable decline. Newly arrived immigrants are not interested in blending into American society and in becoming Americans, learning the English language and "melting in." Whites will be a minority in America by 2050.Agenda driven self-serving organizations are destroying America from within. Both parties are to blame, they are operating with blinders to history, and they are bound to repeat it as America as we know it will cease to exist. It is the end of the "melting pot," morality, democracy and freedoms. Scary as it may be, the future is unfortunately inevitable and predictable from the US CENSUS BUREAU forecasts contained in the book.

The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English

Author : Grant Barrett
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780071491631

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The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English by Grant Barrett Pdf

The words come from different countries where English is spoken, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, South Africa, and others The author's website has received more than 1.2 million hits since its launch in 2004, and he is frequently interviewed about language in publications such as the New York Times

Theatre of the Borderlands

Author : Iani del Rosario Moreno
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739168677

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Theatre of the Borderlands by Iani del Rosario Moreno Pdf

Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories write about theater. The plays analyzed in this study are representative of the most important Northern Border playwrights whose plays’ themes present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a socio-historical and political context. The most important themes observed include topics that engage in discussions of: the indigenous, Border crossings, heroes and folk saints, the city of Tijuana, and violence in the Borderlands, to name a few. These themes have led to the birth of the Teatro del Norte movement, a group of determined playwrights insistent on presenting dramaturgical themes that show the bond between their particular geographies, histories, socio-political and economic situations, thereby giving birth to an original voice and new aesthetic of representation. Dealing with the topics already mentioned, and pairing them with more timely ones like immigration reform, namely, this study can serve as an invaluable resource to many interdisciplinary academic settings, and can grant an eye-opening insight to Border relations through several critical readings.

Homage to Chiapas

Author : Bill Weinberg
Publisher : Verso
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1859843727

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Homage to Chiapas by Bill Weinberg Pdf

Vividly depicts the grassroots struggles for land and local autonomy.

Undocuments

Author : John-Michael Rivera
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780816540037

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Undocuments by John-Michael Rivera Pdf

UNDOCUMENTS is an expansive multi-genre exploration of Greater Mexican documentality that reveals the complicated ways all Latinx peoples, including the author, become objectified within cultures. John-Michael Rivera remixes the Florentine Codex and other documents as he takes an intense look at the anxieties and physical detriments tied to immigration.

Intelligence Governance and Democratisation

Author : Peter Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317541806

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Intelligence Governance and Democratisation by Peter Gill Pdf

This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation. Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The democratisation of intelligence structures that are at the very heart of authoritarian regimes, however, have been relatively ignored. The central aim of this book is to develop a conceptual framework for the specific analytical challenges posed by intelligence as a field of governance. Using examples from Latin America and Europe, it examines the impact of democracy promotion and how the economy, civil society, rule of law, crime, corruption and mass media affect the success or otherwise of achieving democratic control and oversight of intelligence. The volume draws on two main intellectual and political themes: intelligence studies, which is now developing rapidly from its original base in North America and UK; and democratisation studies of the changes taking place in former authoritarian regimes since the mid-1980s including security sector reform. The author concludes that, despite the limited success of democratisation, the dangers inherent in unchecked networks of state, corporate and para-state intelligence organisations demand that academic and policy research continue to meet the challenge. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, democracy studies, war and conflict studies, comparative politics and IR in general.

Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television

Author : César Albarrán-Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000352511

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Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television by César Albarrán-Torres Pdf

This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution. Mapping out media representations of the ongoing war on drugs in Mexico and the United States, the author delves into the social, cultural and geopolitical impacts of distribution and consumption of these media. With a particular emphasis on the globalized Mexican cartels, this book investigates three areas – gender and racial representation in film and television, the digital distribution of content through the internet and streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix, and depictions of extreme violence in film, television and online spaces – to identify whether there are fundamental similarities and differences in how Hollywood productions reproduce stereotypes about race, gender and extreme violence. Some of the movies and television series analysed are Breaking Bad, Ozark, Weeds, Rambo: Last Blood, No Country for Old Men, Sicario and the Netflix series Narcos, Narcos: Mexico and El Chapo. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of cartels in the media, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of media studies, film, television, security studies, Latin American and cultural studies.

Mexican Americans

Author : Scott Ingram
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836873165

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Mexican Americans by Scott Ingram Pdf

Describes why many Mexicans immigrated to the United States and how they adapted to their new environment.

The Emergence of Mexican America

Author : John-Michael Rivera
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814775585

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The Emergence of Mexican America by John-Michael Rivera Pdf

Winner of the 2006 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association In The Emergence of Mexican America, John-Michael Rivera examines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism and nationhood. Beginning with the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and continuing through the period of mass repatriation of US Mexican laborers in 1939, Rivera examines both Mexican-American and Anglo-American cultural production in order to tease out the complexities of the so-called “Mexican question.” Using historical and archival materials, Rivera's wide-ranging objects of inquiry include fiction, non-fiction, essays, treaties, legal materials, political speeches, magazines, articles, cartoons, and advertisements created by both Mexicans and Anglo Americans. Engaging and methodologically venturesome, Rivera's study is a crucial contribution to Chicano/Latino Studies and fields of cultural studies, history, government, anthropology, and literary studies.

Amexica

Author : Ed Vulliamy
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1429977027

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Amexica by Ed Vulliamy Pdf

Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in revelatory detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims—the brave and rogue police, priests, women, and journalists fighting the violence; the gangs and their freelance killers; the dead and the devastated—all come to life in this singular book. Amexica takes us far beyond today's headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself.

Redreaming America

Author : Debra A. Castillo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791462978

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Redreaming America by Debra A. Castillo Pdf

Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies

Author : Francisco A. Lomelí,Denise A. Segura,Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317536697

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Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies by Francisco A. Lomelí,Denise A. Segura,Elyette Benjamin-Labarthe Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Chicana/o Studies is a unique interdisciplinary resource for students, libraries, and researchers interested in the largest and most rapidly growing racial-ethnic community in the United States and elsewhere which can either be identified as Chicano, Latino, Hispanic, or Mexican-American. Structured around seven comprehensive themes, the volume is for students of American studies, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities. The volume is organized around seven critical domains in Chicana/o Studies: Chicana/o History and Social Movements Borderlands, Global Migrations, Employment, and Citizenship Cultural Production in Global and Local Settings Chicana/o Identities Schooling, Language, and Literacy Violence, Resistance, and Empowerment International Perspectives The Handbook will stress the importance of the historical origins of the Chicana/o Studies field. Starting from myth of origins, Aztlán, alleged cradle of the Chicana/o people lately substantiated by the findings of archaeology and anthropology, over Spanish/Indigenous relations until the present time. Essays will explore cultural and linguistic hybridism and showcase artistic practices (visual arts, music, and dance) through popular (folklore) or high culture achievements (museums, installations) highlighting the growth of a critical perspective grounded on key theoretical formulations including borderlands theories, intersectionalities, critical race theory, and cultural analysis.

Interrogating Postfeminism

Author : Diane Negra,Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390411

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Interrogating Postfeminism by Diane Negra,Yvonne Tasker Pdf

This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, “postfeminism” encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has accomplished its goals and is now a thing of the past. It presumes that women are unsatisfied with their (taken for granted) legal and social equality and can find fulfillment only through practices of transformation and empowerment. Postfeminism is defined by class, age, and racial exclusions; it is youth-obsessed and white and middle-class by default. Anchored in consumption as a strategy and leisure as a site for the production of the self, postfeminist mass media assumes that the pleasures and lifestyles with which it is associated are somehow universally shared and, perhaps more significantly, universally accessible. Essays by feminist film, media, and literature scholars based in the United States and United Kingdom provide an array of perspectives on the social and political implications of postfeminism. Examining magazines, mainstream and independent cinema, popular music, and broadcast genres from primetime drama to reality television, contributors consider how postfeminism informs self-fashioning through makeovers and cosmetic surgery, the “metrosexual” male, the “black chick flick,” and more. Interrogating Postfeminism demonstrates not only the viability of, but also the necessity for, a powerful feminist critique of contemporary popular culture. Contributors. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Steven Cohan, Lisa Coulthard, Anna Feigenbaum, Suzanne Leonard, Angela McRobbie, Diane Negra, Sarah Projansky, Martin Roberts, Hannah E. Sanders, Kimberly Springer, Yvonne Tasker, Sadie Wearing

The End of Corruption and Impunity

Author : Stuart S. Yeh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781793655103

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The End of Corruption and Impunity by Stuart S. Yeh Pdf

The End of Corruption and Impunity argues that it is feasible to limit the corruption that plagues developing regions of the world by implementing an international treaty designed to combat dysfunctional criminal justice systems and restore human rights.

The New Americans

Author : Enrique T. Trueba
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0742528847

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The New Americans by Enrique T. Trueba Pdf

American society is changing in front of our eyes with the presence of new Americans, immigrants and transnationals, whose experiences have prepared them to play key leadership roles in our country. The paradox of having the poorest of the new Americans rising to important social, economic, and academic roles is explained in these pages.