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George Washington Gómez

Author : Américo Paredes
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1611921546

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George Washington Gómez by Américo Paredes Pdf

In the 1930s, Américo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. Episodes of guerilla warfare, land grabs, racism, jingoism, and abuses by the Texas Rangers make this an adventure novel as well as one of reflection on the making of modern day Texas. George Washington GÑmez is a true precursor of the modern Chicano novel.

George Washington Gómez

Author : Américo Paredes
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558857902

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George Washington Gómez by Américo Paredes Pdf

This classic novel about the struggles of Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and dominance of the Rio Grande Valley is available for the first time in Spanish. Born in the early part of the twentieth century, George Washington Gómez is named after the American rebel and hero because his parents are certain their son will be a great man too. George, or Guálinto as he’s known, grows up in turbulent times. His family has lived for generations in what has become Texas. “I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs,” his Uncle Feliciano rages. The Texas Mexicans’ attempts to take back their land from the Gringos and the rinches—the brutal Texas Rangers—fail. Guálinto’s father, who never participated in the seditionist violence, is murdered in cold blood, and Feliciano makes a death-bed promise to raise his nephew without hatred. Young Guálinto comes of age in a world where Mexicans are treated as second-class citizens. Teachers can beat and mistreat them with impunity, and most of his Mexican-American friends drop out of school at a young age. But the Gómez family insists that he continue his education, which he will need in order to do great things for his people. And so his school years create a terrible conflict within him: Guálinto alternately hates and admires the Gringo, loves and despises the Mexican. Written in the 1930s but not published until 1990, George Washington Gómez has become mandatory reading for anyone interested in Mexican-American literature, culture and history.

George Washington Gómez

Author : Américo Paredes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Mexican Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1033637091

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George Washington Gómez by Américo Paredes Pdf

The Land of Lost Things / El Pais de Las Cosas Perdidas

Author : Dina Bursztyn
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781611923452

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The Land of Lost Things / El Pais de Las Cosas Perdidas by Dina Bursztyn Pdf

When he looks for his missing blue pencil, a boy enters a strange new world which contains some very familiar objects.

George Washington Gomez

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608997

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George Washington Gomez by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf

¡Viva George!

Author : Elaine A. Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477321447

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¡Viva George! by Elaine A. Peña Pdf

Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.

With His Pistol in His Hand

Author : Américo Paredes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292792517

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With His Pistol in His Hand by Américo Paredes Pdf

Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be forgotten. Even today, in the cantinas along both sides of the Rio Grande, Mexicans sing the praises of the great "sheriff-killer" in the ballad which they call "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez." Américo Paredes tells the story of Cortez, the man and the legend, in vivid, fascinating detail in "With His Pistol in His Hand," which also presents a unique study of a ballad in the making. Deftly woven into the story are interpretations of the Border country, its history, its people, and their folkways.

One Family

Author : George Shannon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466894037

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One Family by George Shannon Pdf

Just how many things can "one" be? One box of crayons. One batch of cookies. One world. One family. From veteran picture book author George Shannon and up-and-coming artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised of people of a range of genders and races.

Bad Paper

Author : Jake Halpern
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780374711245

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Bad Paper by Jake Halpern Pdf

The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become partners and go in quest of "paper"—the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Aaron and Brandon learn, the world of consumer debt collection is an unregulated shadowland where operators often make unwarranted threats and even collect debts that are not theirs. Introducing an unforgettable cast of strivers and rogues, Jake Halpern chronicles their lives as they manage high-pressure call centers, hunt for paper in Las Vegas casinos, and meet in parked cars to sell the social security numbers and account information of unsuspecting consumers. He also tracks a "package" of debt that is stolen by unscrupulous collectors, leading to a dramatic showdown with guns in a Buffalo corner store. Along the way, he reveals the human cost of a system that compounds the troubles of hardworking Americans and permits banks to ignore their former customers. The result is a vital exposé that is also a bravura feat of storytelling.

Founding Fathers

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780470117927

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Founding Fathers by Encyclopaedia Britannica Pdf

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the Founding Fathers, their actions, and their intentions in writing the U.S. Constitution.

Zoot Suit & Other Plays

Author : Luis Valdez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1611923417

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Zoot Suit & Other Plays by Luis Valdez Pdf

This critically acclaimed play by Luis Valdez cracks open the depiction of Chicanos on stage, challenging viewers to revisit a troubled moment in our nationÕs history. From the moment the myth-infused character El Pachuco burst onto the stage, cutting his way through the drop curtain with a switchblade, Luis Valdez spurred a revolution in Chicano theater. Focusing on the events surrounding the Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial of 1942 and the ensuing Zoot Suit Riots that turned Los Angeles into a bloody war zone, this is a gritty and vivid depiction of the horrifying violence and racism suffered by young Mexican Americans on the home front during World War II. ValdezÕs cadre of young urban characters struggle with the stereotypes and generalizations of AmericaÕs dominant culture, the questions of assimilation and patriotism, and a desire to rebel against the mainstream pressures that threaten to wipe them out. Experimenting with brash forms of narration, pop culture of the war era, and complex characterizations, this quintessential exploration of the Mexican-American experience in the United States during the 1940Õs was the first, and only, Chicano play to open on Broadway. This collection contains three of playwright and screenwriter Luis ValdezÕs most important and recognized plays: Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I DonÕt Have to Show You No Stinking Badges. The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Luis Valdez, the most recognized and celebrated Hispanic playwright of our times, is the director of the famous farm-worker theater, El Teatro Campesino.

Mexican Americans in Texas History

Author : Emilio Zamora (ed),Cynthia Orozco,Rodolfo Rocha
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004397458

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Mexican Americans in Texas History by Emilio Zamora (ed),Cynthia Orozco,Rodolfo Rocha Pdf

Old roads, new horizons: Texas history and the new world order / David Montejano -- Occupied Texas: Bexar and Goliad, 1835-1836 / Paul D. Lack -- Mexicanos in Texas during the Civil War / Miguel Gonzalez Quiroga -- Uni.

The Borderlands of Culture

Author : Ramón Saldívar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822387954

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The Borderlands of Culture by Ramón Saldívar Pdf

Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915–1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies. Paredes taught literature and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin for decades, and his ethnographic and literary critical work laid the groundwork for subsequent scholarship on the folktales, legends, and riddles of Mexican Americans. In this beautifully written literary history, the distinguished scholar Ramón Saldívar establishes Paredes’s preeminent place in writing the contested cultural history of the south Texas borderlands. At the same time, Saldívar reveals Paredes as a precursor to the “new” American cultural studies by showing how he perceptively negotiated the contradictions between the national and transnational forces at work in the Americas in the nascent era of globalization. Saldívar demonstrates how Paredes’s poetry, prose, and journalism prefigured his later work as a folklorist and ethnographer. In song, story, and poetry, Paredes first developed the themes and issues that would be central to his celebrated later work on the “border studies” or “anthropology of the borderlands.” Saldívar describes how Paredes’s experiences as an American soldier, journalist, and humanitarian aid worker in Asia shaped his understanding of the relations between Anglos and Mexicans in the borderlands of south Texas and of national and ethnic identities more broadly. Saldívar was a friend of Paredes, and part of The Borderlands of Culture is told in Paredes’s own words. By explaining how Paredes’s work engaged with issues central to contemporary scholarship, Saldívar extends Paredes’s intellectual project and shows how it contributes to the remapping of the field of American studies from a transnational perspective.

Caballero

Author : Jovita González Mireles,Eve Raleigh
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0890967008

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Caballero by Jovita González Mireles,Eve Raleigh Pdf

Written by a Mexican-American woman and her coauthor during the 1930s and 1940s, Caballero remained unprinted and unavailable to the public for over 50 years. The novel examines the impact of the 1846-48 war with Mexico on a tejano family and particularly on Mexican women. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Naranjo the Muse

Author : Omar S. Castañeda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004369110

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Naranjo the Muse by Omar S. Castañeda Pdf

When the Cuban Revolution causes indiscriminate disruption throughout their country in 1959, three teenage boys are forced to grow up earlier than anyone could expect.