The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century.
For the first time, music legend Rudy Perez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage.
Pastor Bryan Loritts dives deep into what it's like to be a person of color in predominantly white evangelical spaces today and where we can go from here.
Going to a foreign land and entering a war zone as a civilian and not as a soldier can take its toll on an individual or have its good and bad times, which will leave one scarred for the remainder of his/her life.
This book is a compilation of a half-century of flying experience in general aviation machines (sixteen thousand hours) and provides specific techniques and tips to enhance your knowledge of aviation and to improve your abilities and confidence as a pilot or student (and person).
In less than four months, beginning with a staff of five, an obscure office buried deep within the federal bureaucracy transformed the nation's hospitals from our most racially and economically segregated institutions into our most integrated.
An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods.
This book is a compendium of European businesses within the African continent, conducted with good intentions, positively motivated from the first time Arabs and Europeans set foot on African soil.
In this timely book, journalist Lisa Benson shares her journey from the newsroom to the courtroom in her fight for justice at a local television station.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * Hailed by The Washington Post as "e;mandatory reading,"e; and praised by Fareed Zakaria as "e;intelligent, compassionate, and revealing,"e; a powerful journey to help bridge one of the greatest divides shaping our world today.
Robo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descentboth within Mexico and in the United Statessince the advent of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994.
Esta es la interesante historia del primer presidente de "La Comision de Derechos Humanos de Illinois", Manuel "Manny" Barbosa Cedillo, quien tambien fue reconocido como "El potosino del milenio" y siendo un bebe de solo dos meses de nacido fue traido por sus padres a los Estados Unidos.
Este pequeno libro es una pequena resena historica de la cultura Prehispanica y su asentamiento en el continente Americano desde su inicio, que se conoce hace mas de cuatro mil anos cuando cruzaron desde el Asia menor por el estrecho de Bering en Alaska, pasando por Canada, U.
The story of Wilhelmina Yazzie and her sons effort to seek an adequate education in New Mexico schools revealed an educational system with poor policy implementation, inadequate funding, and piecemeal educational reform.
The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people.
'A beautiful love letter to the diaspora, Haramacy is an essential collection of essays that push the conversation forward on issues to do with visibility, mental health, race and class' Nikesh Shukla'A superbly crafted collection of essays.
These lessons and stories of truths take root in Eli, and as he grows into a young adult, he begins to place his thoughts onto paper in the form of controversial poems and creative writings.
The purpose of my book, The Tip of the Arrow, A Study in Leadership, is to share with young people of today and tomorrow the story of young people like me at age sixteen as the blueprint of the Selma Student Nonviolent Civil Rights movement, a significant impacting factor in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the dominating influence leading to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
For the Public Good details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local solutions to solve intractable global health problems.
Using interviews with leaders and participants, as well as historical archives, the author documents three interracial sites where white Americans put themselves into unprecedented relationships with African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans.
Un acontecimiento extraordinario que vivencio una familia de clase media, ahora se convierte en historia, gracias a la valentia de su madre, quien decidio compartir su aventura y hacer un libro de hechos que muchas veces no somos capaces de entender ni explicar.
For the Public Good details the role of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), a groundbreaking, internationally recognized primary health care model that uses local solutions to solve intractable global health problems.
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.
The Corso: The Real Nuyorican Salsa Story is a must-read book not just because it's a fantastic and incredible story of success but also it's a historic legacy of how it was at the beginning of the salsa movement.
Real conversations about racism need to start now Let's Talk Race confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do it for us.
Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the Guide for Blind Rovers by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies.