Uncivil Rights And Other Stories

Author : Nash Candelaria
Publisher : Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173005892110

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Uncivil Rights and Other Stories by Nash Candelaria Pdf

"Award-winning author Nash Candelaria's sly wit and clear-eyed compassion shine in his newest collection of short stories. In the wickedly titled novella "Uncivil Rights," a self-righteous but down-and-out activist creates havoc "protesting" a local court case. "Dear Rosita" is told through a series of letters from a father to his daughter, who is the first in the family to go to college and is moving very quickly into a world that strains her family's understanding." "In "The Border," a young man in search of his father is guided by his dreams to find his "inheritance" and discover his place in the world. A young girl encounters the world of culture - and betrayal - in "The Dancing School." These are stories that anyone who wants to understand this multicultural country should read and savor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Steven Salaita
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608465781

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Uncivil Rites by Steven Salaita Pdf

In the summer of 2014, renowned American Indian studies professor Steven Salaita had his appointment to a tenured professorship revoked by the board of trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Salaita’s employment was terminated in response to his public tweets criticizing the Israeli government’s summer assault on Gaza. Salaita’s firing generated a huge public outcry, with thousands petitioning for his reinstatement, and more than five thousand scholars pledging to boycott UIUC. His case raises important questions about academic freedom, free speech on campus, and the movement for justice in Palestine. In this book, Salaita combines personal reflection and political critique to shed new light on his controversial termination. He situates his case at the intersection of important issues that affect both higher education and social justice activism.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438113081

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Hispanic-American Writers, New Edition by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays analyzing modern Hispanic American writers including Junot Diaz, Pat Mora, and Rudolfo Anaya.

Author : Francisco A. Lomelí,Donaldo W. Urioste,María Joaquina Villaseñor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781442275492

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Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature by Francisco A. Lomelí,Donaldo W. Urioste,María Joaquina Villaseñor Pdf

U.S. Latino Literature is defined as Latino literature within the United States that embraces the heterogeneous inter-groupings of Latinos. For too long U.S. Latino literature has not been thought of as an integral part of the overall shared American literary landscape, but that is slowly changing. This dictionary aims to rectify some of those misconceptions by proving that Latinos do fundamentally express American issues, concerns and perspectives with a flair in linguistic cadences, familial themes, distinct world views, and cross-cultural voices. The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has cross-referenced entries on U.S. Latino/a authors, and terms relevant to the nature of U.S. Latino literature in order to illustrate and corroborate its foundational bearings within the overall American literary experience. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.

Author : Nicolás Kanellos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1444 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313087004

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature [3 volumes] by Nicolás Kanellos Pdf

From East L.A. to the barrios of New York City and the Cuban neighborhoods of Miami, Latino literature, or literature written by Hispanic peoples of the United States, is the written word of North America's vibrant Latino communities. Emerging from the fusion of Spanish, North American, and African cultures, it has always been part of the American mosaic. Written for students and general readers, this encyclopedia surveys the vast landscape of Latino literature from the colonial era to the present. Aiming to be as broad and inclusive as possible, the encyclopedia covers all of native North American Latino literature as well as that created by authors originating in virtually every country of Spanish America and Spain. Included are more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries written by roughly 60 expert contributors. While most of the entries are on writers, such as Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Oscar Hijuelos, and Piri Thomas, others cover genres, ethnic and national literatures, movements, historical topics and events, themes, concepts, associations and organizations, and publishers and magazines. Special attention is given to the cultural, political, social, and historical contexts in which Latino literature has developed. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. The encyclopedia gives special attention to the social, cultural, historical, and political contexts of Latino literature, thus making it an ideal tool to help students use literature to learn about history and cultural diversity.

Author : Adrian Daub
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226136950

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Uncivil Unions by Adrian Daub Pdf

“What a strange invention marriage is!” wrote Kierkegaard. “Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?” Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany’s most influential thinkers at the turn of the eighteenth century wondered about the nature of marriage but rejected the easy answers provided by biology and theology. In Uncivil Unions, Adrian Daub presents a truly interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage. Through close readings of philosophers like Fichte and Schlegel, and novelists like Sophie Mereau and Jean Paul, Daub charts the development of this new concept of marriage with an insightful blend of philosophy, cultural studies, and theory. The author delves deeply into the lives and work of the romantic and idealist poets and thinkers whose beliefs about marriage continue to shape ideas about gender, marriage, and sex to the present day.

Author : Lilliana Mason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226524689

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Uncivil Agreement by Lilliana Mason Pdf

The psychology behind political partisanship: “The kind of research that will change not just how you think about the world but how you think about yourself.” —Ezra Klein, Vox Political polarization in America has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in decades, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable views of their opponents. This is polarization rooted in social identity, and it is growing. The campaign and election of Donald Trump laid bare this fact of the American electorate, its successful rhetoric of “us versus them” tapping into a powerful current of anger and resentment. With Uncivil Agreement, Lilliana Mason looks at the growing social gulf across racial, religious, and cultural lines, which have recently come to divide neatly between the two major political parties. She argues that group identifications have changed the way we think and feel about ourselves and our opponents. Even when Democrats and Republicans can agree on policy outcomes, they tend to view one other with distrust and to work for party victory over all else. Although the polarizing effects of social divisions have simplified our electoral choices and increased political engagement, they have not been a force that is, on balance, helpful for American democracy. Bringing together theory from political science and social psychology, Uncivil Agreement clearly describes this increasingly “social” type of polarization, and adds much to our understanding of contemporary politics.

Author : David Horowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053496421

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Uncivil Wars by David Horowitz Pdf

In this well researched and carefully argued book, Horowitz traces the origins of the reparations movement and its implications for American education and culture.

Author : Jonna Perrillo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226660738

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Uncivil Rights by Jonna Perrillo Pdf

Almost fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, a wealth of research shows that minority students continue to receive an unequal education. At the heart of this inequality is a complex and often conflicted relationship between teachers and civil rights activists, examined fully for the first time in Jonna Perrillo’s Uncivil Rights, which traces the tensions between the two groups in New York City from the Great Depression to the present.While movements for teachers’ rights and civil rights were not always in conflict, Perrillo uncovers the ways they have become so, brought about both by teachers who have come to see civil rights efforts as detracting from or competing with their own goals and by civil rights activists whose aims have de-professionalized the role of the educator. Focusing in particular on unionized teachers, Perrillo finds a new vantage point from which to examine the relationship between school and community, showing how in this struggle, educators, activists, and especially our students have lost out.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Hispanic American arts
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172141793595

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Latin Style by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812966794

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Uncivil Society by Stephen Kotkin Pdf

Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East Germany, Romania, and Poland–to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling class–communism’s establishment, or “uncivil society.” The Communists borrowed from the West like drunken sailors to buy mass consumer goods, then were unable to pay back the hard-currency debts and so borrowed even more. In Eastern Europe, communism came to resemble a Ponzi scheme, one whose implosion carries enduring lessons. From East Germany’s pseudotechnocracy to Romania’s megalomaniacal dystopia, from Communist Poland’s cult of Mary to the Kremlin’s surprise restraint, Kotkin and Gross pull back the curtain on the fraud and decadence that cashiered the would-be alternative to the market and democracy, an outcome that opened up to a deeper global integration that has proved destabilizing.

Author : Jamie Martinez Wood
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438107851

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Latino Writers and Journalists by Jamie Martinez Wood Pdf

Provides short biographies of Latino American writers and journalists and information on their works.

Author : Benson Latin American Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UOM:39015079750389

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G.K. Hall Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies by Benson Latin American Collection Pdf

Author : Frederick T. Golder
Publisher : Beachfront Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780980061123

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Uncivil Rights by Frederick T. Golder Pdf

Uncivil Rights is a guide to workers' rights. Detailed descriptions of employment rights issues and methods for protecting and preserving those rights are provided by way of practical, real-life examples.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062168435

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MultiCultural Review by Anonim Pdf