In Search Of A Day In Paradise Aztlan

Author : Moises Venegas
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1475957394

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In Search of a Day in Paradise: Aztlan by Moises Venegas Pdf

New Mexico is a land of crisis; steps must be taken to improve the lives of its residents. In In Search of a Day in Paradise: Aztlan, author Dr. Moises Venegas analyzes the history of Hispanics in the southwest and makes a call for change in New Mexicos education, policies, and politics. Venegas shows that after four hundred years, mestizo Hispanos are still searching for their elusive day in paradisethat cultural, economic, political and educational paradise that could help put them in a better place in the future. In Search of a Day in Paradise: Aztlan discusses how, in this modern era, New Mexicans can strive for the return of AztlanNew Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and Californiaby demanding a better education , voting for leaders who do not just talk but act when it comes to improving the job situation in New Mexico, and eliminating poverty. In Search of a Day in Paradise: Aztlan offers insight into how using historical data can be of influence as Hispanos seek to improve their standing in todays society. Time will tell if they will perform better educationally and politically in 2075 than they have in the past.

Author : Dylan Miner
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530038

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Creating Aztlán by Dylan Miner Pdf

"Creating Aztlâan interrogates the important role of Aztlâan in Chicano and Indigenous art and culture. Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being, author Dylan A. T. Miner (Mâetis) discusses the multiple roles that Aztlâan has played atvarious moments in time, engaging pre-colonial indigeneities, alongside colonial, modern, and contemporary Xicano responses to colonization"--

Author : Lee Stacy
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761474021

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Mexico and the United States by Lee Stacy Pdf

Examines the history and culture of Mexico and its relations with its neighbors to the north and east from the Spanish Conquest to the current presidency of Vicente Fox.

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471120381

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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer Pdf

Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium

Author : Michael Paul Moreno
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCR:31210015196643

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Paving Through Paradise by Michael Paul Moreno Pdf

Author : Guy Garcia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001171477

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Obsidian Sky by Guy Garcia Pdf

In Mexico, a Chicano anthropologist from Berkeley, researching Aztec human sacrifices, becomes involved politically in a civil war and romantically with a beautiful, leftist journalist. A study of the influence of the past on the present. By the author of Skin Deep.

Author : Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504011822

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Rio Grande Fall by Rudolfo Anaya Pdf

A New Mexico PI tries to stop a cult leader’s murderous rampage in “a fascinating hybrid of detective story, adventure yarn, and shamanistic magic.” —Kirkus Reviews The world-famous International Balloon Fiesta of Albuquerque is one of the city’s most eagerly anticipated annual events and its biggest moneymaker. But when a woman plunges to her death from one of the balloons—foreshadowed by Sonny Baca’s vision of a body plummeting from the sky—Sonny’s sure it’s murder. The dead woman was the chief witness to testify against the cult implicated in the murder-for-hire of Sonny’s cousin Gloria, whose death still haunts him. In addition to motive, Sonny finds means and opportunity: a homeless family who saw someone push Veronica Worthy out of the hot-air balloon. Worthy was one of the four wives of Raven, leader of the sun cult, and a dangerous, shamanlike criminal who’s supposed to be dead. But the four black feathers found on the corpse are his calling card—clues to let Sonny know he’s alive and kicking. And his murder spree isn’t over. Now, led by his spirit guides, Sonny must race to stop a vengeful madman and save the woman he loves. From the American Book Award–winning author, this is “a completely entertaining mystery novel [that] offers two parallel lands of enchantment” (Booklist).

Author : Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1095 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504041454

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The Sonny Baca Novels by Rudolfo Anaya Pdf

Four suspenseful southwestern mysteries featuring a Chicano PI in New Mexico, by the “extraordinary” author of Bless Me, Ultima (Los Angeles Times Book Review). These four novels starring detective Sonny Baca are set against the terrain of the American Southwest, blending its Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultures. Zia Summer: Sonny Baca’s cousin Gloria is brutally slain, her body found drained of blood with a Zia sun sign—the symbol on the New Mexican flag—carved on her stomach. His quest to find her killer leads Baca across New Mexico’s diverse South Valley to an environmental compound and a terrifying brujo. Rio Grande Fall: A woman plummets to her death from a hot air balloon during Albuquerque’s famous Balloon Fiesta—and Baca recognizes it as no accident. Shaman Winter: Baca, confined to a wheelchair after a violent encounter, is haunted by chilling dreams, but has no choice but to go to work when the Santa Fe mayor’s teenage daughter disappears and the trail leads to a charismatic and dangerous shaman. Jemez Spring: A high-profile murder ignites a hotbed of political treachery and terrorist threats that take Baca to Los Alamos, pitting him against a formidable foe—and a nuclear bomb. Unrelentingly suspenseful, with vivid details of the physical and spiritual landscape of northern New Mexico, these mysteries are perfect for fans of Margaret Coel or James D. Doss and star “a fascinating hero” (Edmonton Journal).

Author : Elizabeth Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134218233

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Mexican American Literature by Elizabeth Jacobs Pdf

Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording readers the major novels, drama and poetry. This volume presents fresh and original readings of major works, and with its historiographic and cultural analyses, impressively delivers key information to the reader.

Author : Ilan Stavans,Harold Augenbraum
Publisher : Grolier, Incorporated
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063675394

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Encyclopedia Latina by Ilan Stavans,Harold Augenbraum Pdf

In its four volumes, 650 entries, 2000 pages and 1.2 million words, Encyclopedia Latina explores every aspect of Latino life in America from a myriad of perspectives, spanning the arts, media, cuisine, government and politics, science and technology, business, health, and sports, among others. While the collection represents an important cultural point of reference and source of pride for Latino youth, it will also serve the interests of an increasingly diverse American population who can all relate to the themes and stories included in this resource.

Author : Alfonso Rodríguez,Santiago Daydí-Tolson
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017221643

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Five Poets of Aztlán by Alfonso Rodríguez,Santiago Daydí-Tolson Pdf

This volume includes five full-length collections of Chicano poetry by Alfonso Rodriguez, Leroy V. Quintana, El Huitlacoche, Alma Luz Villanueva, and Carmen Tafolla. Bringing together five divergent voices, the poetry ranges from the feminist to the comic and parodic, the religious and meditative, and the socially committed.

Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429956345

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Woman of a Thousand Secrets by Barbara Wood Pdf

The Bestselling Author of The Blessing Stone and Daughter of the Sun She came to them from the sea, and to the sea they returned her. . . . A story of sacrifice and survival in the New World. Tonina lives an idyllic life on a small island in the Caribbean hundreds of years before Europeans discovered it. But she has always been an outsider among her people. Unlike them, Tonina is tall and lean and light skinned, and her origins remain a mystery. Her adoptive parents had found her floating in a basket in the sea—a sacrifice? A shipwreck? No one knows. When Tonina turns nineteen, her parents know she must return to the sea so that the gods don't become angry with the village for keeping something that is not theirs. Under the guise of finding a medicinal plant, they send Tonina to the mainland, a terrifying place she can't even imagine. They know, however, that they will never see her again. And here is where her adventure begins. It is a tale of survival and sacrifice, of luck, magic, intrigue, and danger, romance and betrayal, an epic filled with ancient lore, tales of bearded white men who sailed to this shore in giant ships, and discoveries of medicinal miracles in faraway places. But most of all, it's the story of one woman's quest to discover where—and to whom—she really belongs. This sweeping story of the undiscovered world before the time of Columbus is Barbara Wood at her very best.

Author : Francisco A. Lomelí,Karin Ikas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015060049924

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U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures by Francisco A. Lomelí,Karin Ikas Pdf

Author : Rudolfo A. Anaya,Anaya
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417623314

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Heart of Aztlan by Rudolfo A. Anaya,Anaya Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. Chronicles the lives of a Mexican American family in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Author : Ignacio Sanchez Prado
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826519672

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Screening Neoliberalism by Ignacio Sanchez Prado Pdf

Cavernous, often cold, always dark, with the lingering smell of popcorn in the air: the experience of movie-going is universal. The cinematic experience in Mexico is no less profound, and has evolved in complex ways in recent years. Films like Y Tu Mama Tambien, El Mariachi, Amores Perros, and the work of icons like Guillermo del Toro and Salma Hayek represent much more than resurgent interest in the cinema of Mexico. In Screening Neoliberalism, Ignacio Sanchez Prado explores precisely what happened to Mexico's film industry in recent decades. Far from just a history of the period, Screening Neoliberalism explores four deep transformations in the Mexican film industry: the decline of nationalism, the new focus on middle-class audiences, the redefinition of political cinema, and the impact of globalization. This analysis considers the directors and films that have found international notoriety as well as those that have been instrumental in building a domestic market. Screening Neoliberalism exposes the consequences of a film industry forced to find new audiences in Mexico's middle-class in order to achieve economic and cultural viability.