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.
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human RightsThis new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous.
Es una obra literaria extraordinaria y unica en su tipo por su naturaleza, la cual merece la oportunidad de ser conocida por el resto del mundo, y lo hara.
All Americans should welcome the opportunity to move forward into a better future for America and for all Americans while mending ancient wounds from the nations original sin and at the same time seek to remediate the lingering ills and inflicted hardships still present to this day that divides the nation's people such that some Americans still feel relegated to second class citizenship.
Mi origen, Tepuche, mi destino, la historia de vida contada con lujo de detalle que llevara al lector a explorar todos los acontecimientos mas relevantes, y que lo haran vivir paso a paso esta aventura, desde el momento mismo de mi nacimiento en una zona rural en condiciones de pobreza, donde con grandes sacrificios familiares y personales logre salir adelante.
In 2008, the United States elected its first black president, and recent polls show that only 22 percent of white people in the US believe that racism is a major societal problem.
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.
For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (1878-1885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's "e;Golden Age"e; of progress, modernity, and-most contentiously-national whiteness and the "e;invisibilization"e; of Indigenous peoples.
In 1997, when Lucia Guerra-Reyes began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women.
This book delves into the complexity of the exclusion of multiple minority identities against the backdrop of anti-Black racism, linguistic discrimination, slavery, and colonialism and neo-colonialism, along with resilience against identity exclusion.
Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas.
Considering, the inevitable calamities of life, A Journey to Freedom, the Divine Dreamer offers everyone an understanding of God's best for us in our darkest moments.
En el ano de 1948 se presenta la muerte del caudillo del pueblo Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, al mismo tiempo en Colombia la violencia desatada por la supremacia de los partidos tradicionales Liberal y Conservador, sumio al pais en un caos de violencia.
For the Love of Mama is a candid and explicit look into the life of a young, confused woman through the eyes of her daughter who is trying to make sense of her life while trying to find her own way.
Caught between family demands, social groups, and ostracized as a member of the religious "e;Holy Rollers,"e; the author of AMERICAN ROBOT: A Cultural Chameleon Rising Above Race & Religious Traumas balances on precarious razor edges of sacred edicts, genetic mental illnesses, and toxic social stress.
Dancing with Wolves is a homeless tale of one man's struggle to find affordable housing in New York City at a time where the Bloomberg Administration would have not given any priority to the plight of the now seventy thousand men, women, and children that experienced homelessness in New York City on a nightly basis.
Rachael KraMer is on fire in this book, using her past experiences to drive real, actionable, and astounding methods to holistically improve your health.
At the border where Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina meet under the scrutiny of the US and Mercosur (the large South American trade bloc), Arabs have long fulfilled what author John Tofik Karam calls a manifold destiny.
This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest.
This children's book was inspired by the little African American girls in my family and the experiences and challenges they face on the schoolyard and classrooms.