How the queer Chicano punks of post-1960s Los Angeles developed a unique politics of style In this groundbreaking work, Joshua Javier Guzman explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height of the AIDS epidemic. He demonstrates how style-as a cultural form and ......
In this book, distinguished philosopher Jorge J.E. Gracia reflects on his family and life in Cuba before the Castro Revolution. Through his stories the author hopes to entice historians, philosophers, writers, teachers, and others to pursue the study of Cuban society during that important period in the history of the island.
This unique volume brings together findings from six separate but interconnected studies, carried out over seven years in the same small bilingual elementary school. During a period of rapid gentrification in Austin, Texas, Hillside Elementary transformed from a predominantly Latinx, under-resourced and under-enrolled neighborhood school with a ......
This study provides a biography of Jose M. Lopez, who earned the US Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II. The author examines how he returned to segregation and discrimination in the United States and how court decisions, civil rights legislation, and veterans' organizations became part of the postwar US political agenda.
In believing hope is at the center-and not at the end of things-this author illustrates models of hope as axis of our humanity, leaving us with a practical recipe to take with an apply to our ministerial and organizational contexts in search of a sustainable hope in the midst of crisis.
Imagining Latinx Intimacies addresses the ways that artists and writers resist the social forces of colonialism, displacement, and oppression through crafting incisive and inspiring responses to the problems that queer Latinx peoples encounter in both daily lives and representation such as art, film, poetry, popular culture, and stories.
Latinos are the minority population in United States. Based on a research study of 150 Latino men who completed a year of court-ordered treatment in Southern California, this book mixes quantitative and qualitative methodology in order to provide counselors with an opportunity to hear how Latino men think about manhood, marriage, and family life.
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and dramatically reshaped North American geopolitics by ceding half of Mexico's territory to the United States. In the following decades, as conflicts over slavery in the United States and over the nature of nation, state, and religion in Mexico overwhelmed politics, both ......
Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848-1867
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and dramatically reshaped North American geopolitics by ceding half of Mexico's territory to the United States. In the following decades, as conflicts over slavery in the United States and over the nature of nation, state, and religion in Mexico overwhelmed politics, both ......
