México S Nobodies

Author : B. Christine Arce
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438463575

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México's Nobodies by B. Christine Arce Pdf

2016 Victoria Urbano Critical Monograph Book Prize, presented by the International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Culture Winner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language Association Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore Society Analyzes cultural materials that grapple with gender and blackness to revise traditional interpretations of Mexicanness. México’s Nobodies examines two key figures in Mexican history that have remained anonymous despite their proliferation in the arts: the soldadera and the figure of the mulata. B. Christine Arce unravels the stunning paradox evident in the simultaneous erasure (in official circles) and ongoing fascination (in the popular imagination) with the nameless people who both define and fall outside of traditional norms of national identity. The book traces the legacy of these extraordinary figures in popular histories and legends, the Inquisition, ballads such as “La Adelita” and “La Cucaracha,” iconic performers like Toña la Negra, and musical genres such as the son jarocho and danzón. This study is the first of its kind to draw attention to art’s crucial role in bearing witness to the rich heritage of blacks and women in contemporary México.

Author : Ben DeWitt
Publisher : Oso Press, LLC
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780966538786

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Nobody Dies in Mexico by Ben DeWitt Pdf

Author : Reece Jones
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781640095953

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Nobody is Protected by Reece Jones Pdf

An urgent look at the U.S. Border Patrol from its xenophobic founding to its assault on the Fourth Amendment in its quest to become a national police force Late one July night in 2020, armed men, identified only by the word POLICE written across their uniforms, began snatching supporters of Black Lives Matter off the street in Portland, Oregon, and placing them in unmarked vans. These mysterious actions were not carried out by local law enforcement or even right-wing terrorists, but by the U.S. Border Patrol. Why was the Border Patrol operating so far from the boundaries of the United States? What were they doing at a protest that had nothing to do with immigration or the border? Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States is the untold story of how, through a series of landmark but largely unknown decisions, the Supreme Court has dramatically curtailed the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution in service of policing borders. The Border Patrol exercises exceptional powers to conduct warrantless stops and interrogations within one hundred miles of land borders or coastlines, an area that includes nine of the ten largest cities and two thirds of the American population. Mapping the Border Patrol’s history from its bigoted and violent Wild West beginnings through the legal precedents that have unleashed today’s militarized force, Guggenheim Fellow Reece Jones reveals the shocking true stories and characters behind its most dangerous policies. With the Border Patrol intent on exploiting current laws to transform itself into a national police force, the truth behind their influence and history has never been more important.

Author : Roy Pateman
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761829733

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The Man Nobody Knows by Roy Pateman Pdf

In this book, Roy Pateman provides the most reader-friendly, up to date biography of B. Traven, an enigmatic writer whose readership spread across broader class, race, and language divides more than anyone else writing during the twentieth century. This unconventional biography discusses Traven's alternative histories, followed by an attempt to find out the major influences of this elusive man. Pateman addresses Traven's politics, his life of humanist anarchism, and discusses all of his works (in English and German), emphasizing The Death Ship, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and the "Jungle Sextet." Also included is a chronology of Traven's life, which is fuller than that found in any other study. The book ends with a modest solution to the intractable problem of who Traven really was and where he was born and raised.

Author : Elena Poniatowska
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566393454

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Nothing, Nobody by Elena Poniatowska Pdf

September 19, 1985: A powerful earthquake hits Mexico City in the early morning hours. As the city collapses, the government fails to respond. Long a voice of social conscience, prominent Mexican journalist Elena Poniatowska chronicles the disintegration of the city's physical and social structure, the widespread grassroots organizing against government corruption and incompetence, and the reliency of the human spirit. As a transformative moment in the life of mexican society, the earthquake is as much a component of the country's current crisis as the 1982 debt crisis, the problematic economic of the last ten years, and the recent elections. In masterfully weaving together a multiplicity of voices, Poniatowska has reasserted the inherent value and latent power of people working together. Punctuated by Poniatowska's own experiences and observations, these post disaster testimonies speak of the disruption of families and neighborhoods, of the destruction of homes and hospitals, of mutilation and death—the collective loss of a city. Drawing the reader dramatically into the scene of national horror through dozens of personal stories, Poniatowska demonstrates the importance of courage and self-reliance in redeeming life from chaos.

Author : Marion Poynter
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780522855838

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Nobody's Valentine by Marion Poynter Pdf

"Valentine Alexa Leeper was born in Melbourne on Valentines Day, 1900, the daughter of Alexander Leeper (18481934), the brilliant but argumentative first Warden of Trinity College. Her long life might seem unremarkable: she lived simply in the family's Victorian suburban home, neither marrying nor travelling overseas, and was regarded by many as an eccentric, at times tiresome, blue-stocking. The hoard of letters Valentine Leeper wrote and received over nearly a century reveals her, however, as a remarkable woman. The letters also provide an intimate view of issues, great and small, of the turbulent twentieth century, through the eyes of a clear-minded observer. Valentine publicly condemned racism and any curtailing of freedom of speech, and extensively supported refugees and the rights of Aborigines and women. Like many women of her time and background, she was an active member of a network seeking social justice, but remained always her own person. At once a staunch traditionalist, and ahead of her time, she was a truly liberated woman"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Heinrich Börnstein
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1883982200

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Memoirs of a Nobody by Heinrich Börnstein Pdf

Radical editor, Republican Party operative, freethinking colleague of Karl Marx - Austrian Henry Boernstein was hardly a "nobody," but his is one of the nineteenth century's great unknown lives. After leaving Paris following the ill-fated revolutions of 1848, Boernstein became a leader of the large German-speaking immigrant population in 1850s St. Louis. He edited the premier German-speaking newspaper in the region, the Anzeiger des Westens, and played a major role in shaping the complex political landscape of St. Louis before the Civil War. A friend of such significant Missourians as Thomas Hart Benton, Francis Blair, Jr., and Nathaniel Lyon, he was also a novelist, playwright, director, and actor who eventually led the St. Louis Opera House. He also served as a colonel of volunteers with the Union forces in Missouri early in the war and participated in the Camp Jackson raid in 1861.

Author : Tony Martin,Dessima Williams
Publisher : The Majority Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Grenada
ISBN : 0912469161

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In Nobody's Backyard: Facing the world by Tony Martin,Dessima Williams Pdf

The English speaking Caribbean's most unique recent political experiment, as chronicled in the pages of the Free West Indian, and other organs of the revolution.

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816522707

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Nobody's Son by Luis Alberto Urrea Pdf

Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.

Author : Rasheed Soofi, MD
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982271794

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Auto Bio Nobody Part Ii a Narrative Memoir by Rasheed Soofi, MD Pdf

The days of our lives have many similarities with a game of poker where a hand that is dealt is akin to a day we wake up into every morning. Some hands are sure winners and need no skill to win; some hands would have to be folded at the start, no matter who is playing that hand. It is only in between these two extremes that gives the game the thrill it beholds; and a skilled player walks away with his head up. It does not matter at what minimum bet table the game is played at. The game and its rules are the same except with different scale of win or loss. Each one of our days, regardless of our social or economic class or the geography we are in are dealt to us without prejudice or intention by the conscious-less nature. Accepting it gracefully as the hand is dealt and playing it the best, we know how to is the essence of being harmonious with the unconscientious universe that surrounds us. Folding on some days is a part of the game and is not being out of the game and submitting to the outcome of the game without self-persecution or infliction upon others is also a part and the end part of the game. A man aware of the nature of the game would not bicker when down and would not boast when he is up; it is only a game; how honorably and harmlessly to others it is played is what makes one player different from others. Rasheed Soofi, MD

Author : Edward Gross,Mark A. Altman
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250300966

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Nobody Does it Better by Edward Gross,Mark A. Altman Pdf

The ultimate oral history of the only gentleman secret agent with a license to kill... and thrill...telling the incredible, uncensored true stories of the James Bond franchise and spy mania. For over five decades, the cinematic adventures of James Bond have thrilled moviegoers. Now, bestselling authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross take you behind-the-scenes of the most famous and beloved movie franchise of all-time filled with reflections from over 150 cast, crew, critics and filmmakers who reflect on the impact of this legendary movie franchise as well as share their thoughts about their favorite (and least) favorite 007 adventures and spy mania which gripped fans the world over in the wake of the success of the James Bond films. From Russia--with love, course--to Vegas, from below the bright blue waters of the Bahamas in search of a missing nuclear weapon to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, from below the seas in Stromberg’s new Noah's Ark of Atlantis into orbit with Hugo Drax, Nobody Does It Better: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond tells the amazing, true story of the birth of James Bond through the latest remarkable James Bond adventures as well as the Spy mania classics that enthralled the world. It’s Bond and Beyond from the critically acclaimed authors of the bestselling The Fifty-Year Mission and So Say We All. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Matt Bernstein Sycamore
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786750573

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Nobody Passes by Matt Bernstein Sycamore Pdf

Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the various systems of power seen (or not seen) in the act of “passing.” In a pass-fail situation, standards for acceptance may vary, but somebody always gets trampled on. This anthology seeks to eliminate the pressure to pass and thereby unearth the delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation that might create. Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, has a history of editing anthologies based on brazen nonconformity and gender defiance. Mattilda sets out to ask the question, “What lies are people forced to tell in order to gain acceptance as 'real'.” The answers are as varied as the life experiences of the writers who tackle this urgent and essential topic.

Author : Walter Stegram
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781467003568

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Nobody's Army, Everyone's War by Walter Stegram Pdf

All my books are about mercenries with some of my own expriences included. They show how the greed of high statesmen and the inconsistance of some African countries can result in wars. Some of the countries that won back their independance only to distroy themselves through lack of trust for there own people. influences from outside agencies which created more troubles than the people themselves. Mercenries were used in nearly all wars especially in Africa but their governments would deny that we was ever there, but we was.

Author : Roni Jay
Publisher : FT Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780133068689

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Nobody Told Me That! by Roni Jay Pdf

As parents, we worry constantly: Will our kids grow up healthy? Independent? Happy? Are we doing all we can for them? Are we making the most of the time we have with them? Everyone’s got advice. If we followed it all, we’d never sleep. (Maybe we already don’t.) This book will help you focus on what really matters. The 10 things you need to do to raise kids who are: confident and resilient; ethical and loving; competent, responsible, and fulfilled; engaged and enthusiastic. What to do, and how to do it: Read this book, use its lessons, and then, relax. As a parent, you can’t do everything, no matter how hard you try: nobody can. Given that, how do you make sure to do the things that are most important? The things that’ll help your kids enjoy their childhoods and help them grow into healthy, confident, successful, happy adults? Nobody Told Me That! has the answers. Renowned parenting expert and author Roni Jay has studied what the most successful parents do and distilled those insights into 10 core principles: what you really need to do when you can’t possibly do it all. Plenty of books focus on parenting babies and toddlers: This one’s designed to support and inspire you the rest of the way, from age 2 to your kids’ college years, and beyond. Roni Jay doesn’t just identify the principles you need to know: She covers the hard part—actually applying them in your own family. With Jay’s help, you’ll enjoy your kids more...they’ll enjoy you more...and they’ll grow up with the solid foundation they need to find their own paths, build their own lives, and thrive! • Help your kids build unshakable confidence and self-assurance Give them a rock-solid foundation that’s always there for them • Give your kids some magic in an unmagical world Find the space and time for enchantment–and fend off the magic-killers • Make sure they know right from wrong and the value of money What your kids really need to learn and how to get it across • Get your kids to think, lead–and even clean up their rooms Build real grownups, one loving day at a time

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858009603550

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Colonel Jacque. Everybody's business is nobody's business. The Protestant monastery by Daniel Defoe Pdf