My book opened up a world I didn't know lived within meI was forty years old when I truly connected with the writer and the poet within me at age eight, I was robbed of the right to love, like respect me for me I came to know bullying, racism, unacceptance, disconnectAnd definitely what allowed one to be accepted or not be accepted I hid a lot behind my smile and Laughter but when the rain would fall My God it fell nothing of of my life mattered my voice meant nothing so now I shall speak and be heard.
Bronze, International Latino Book Awards, Most Inspirational Nonfiction BookGold Medal, International Latino Book Awards, Mimi Lozano Best Family History BookGold Medal, International Latino Book Awards, Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed BookA Kansas Notable BookLas Madres is an incredible story of generational resilience and transformation with family and community at its heart.
Bronze, International Latino Book Awards, Most Inspirational Nonfiction BookGold Medal, International Latino Book Awards, Mimi Lozano Best Family History BookGold Medal, International Latino Book Awards, Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed BookA Kansas Notable BookLas Madres is an incredible story of generational resilience and transformation with family and community at its heart.
Decolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and experiences of racialized and colonized populations, profoundly constraining their being in the world.
This book explores bell hooks' trajectory of work and cohesiveness of thought about the meaning and meaningfulness of black womanhood in terms of a Black Marxist feminism, which uniquely confronts the dimensions of feminism and womanism; the relations between the secular and the religious; the problems of gender and sexism; and the structural and systemic issues of oppression, domination, white supremacy, and capitalism.
This book explores bell hooks' trajectory of work and cohesiveness of thought about the meaning and meaningfulness of black womanhood in terms of a Black Marxist feminism, which uniquely confronts the dimensions of feminism and womanism; the relations between the secular and the religious; the problems of gender and sexism; and the structural and systemic issues of oppression, domination, white supremacy, and capitalism.
Laura Rival, antropóloga de Oxford, ofrece en este libro un aporte sustancial al conocimiento del pueblo huaorani, completando así el trabajo que se ha convertido en un clásico, publicado por Ediciones Abya-Yala en 1996, Hijos del sol y padres del jaguar.
Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI's post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point.
This book provides an in-depth examination of how Filipina mothers, serving as migrant caregivers, and their children navigate the experiences of family separation and reunification through Canada's Live-in/Caregiver Program (L/CP).
World-renowned scholar of human geography, development, and environmental change Antonio Ioris presents an original reconceptualisation of the notions of difference and indifference and their impacts on social structures.
This edited volume looks at the ways in which films, literature, photography and social media construct images of homelands and diasporas as well as the ways in which they facilitate exchanges between them.
This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography.
Congress prohibited slave trading in 1808, Lincoln University was chartered in 1854, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and in 1916 Carter G.
This is the tale of the origin, emergence, and transformation of an unorthodox binational partnership, the Georgia Project, that brought a Mexican university to aid a Georgia school district that suddenly found itself hosting thousands of Latino newcomers.
The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South.
Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for.
First published in 1963, The Irish in Britain tells the story of the many facets of the Irish migration and discusses some of its economic, demographic and social implications.
From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art.
This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men's violence.
This book showcases the potential of computational approaches for research questions at the heart of migration and integration research via a set of original, cutting-edge empirical studies by a diverse, international team of authors.
The Kit b-i-Aqdas is considered the most important and sacred text of the Bah ' Faith, a religion with some eight million adherents, found in nearly every country of the world.
