Compañeros

Compañeros
Author: Jesus Ramirez-Valles
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 025209347X

Telling the affecting stories of eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists and volunteers living in Chicago and San Francisco, Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS closely details how these individuals have been touched or transformed by the AIDS epidemic. Weaving together activists' responses to oppression and stigma, their encounters with AIDS, and their experiences as GBTs and Latinos in North America and Latin America, Jesus Ramirez-Valles explores the intersection of civic involvement with ethnic and sexual identity. Even as activists battle multiple sources of oppression, they are able to restore their sense of family connection and self-esteem through the creation of an alternative space in which community members find value in their relationships with one another. In demonstrating the transformative effects of a nurturing community environment for GBT Latinos affected by the AIDS epidemic, Ramirez-Valles illustrates that members find support in one another, as compañeros, in their struggles with homophobia, gender discrimination, racism, poverty, and forced migration.

Spanish for the IB MYP 1-3 Phases 3-4

Spanish for the IB MYP 1-3 Phases 3-4
Author: María Blanco
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2017-05-22
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1471881172

A concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Spanish teaching and learning. - Approaches each chapter with statements of inquiry framed by key and related concepts, set in a global context - Supports every aspect of assessment using tasks designed by an experienced MYP educator - Differentiates and extends learning with research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities - Applies global contexts in meaningful ways to offer an MYP Spanish programme with an internationally-minded perspective

Compañeros

Compañeros
Author: Joe Gatlin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1532619820

On a Thursday morning in 1981, four thousand campesinos (fieldworkers), fleeing a US-funded Salvadoran death squad, stumbled down the rocky, overgrown side of a hill to the Lempa River. Some were mown down by machine guns and the strafing of helicopters; others drowned as they were swept away by the river. The rest escaped to live the next eight years in UN refugee camps in Honduras. In 1989 many of these refugees returned to El Salvador as the repatriated community of Valle Nuevo. Companeros tells the stories of a twenty-five year relationship of accompaniment, healing, and forgiveness between Valle Nuevo and a small association of churches in the United States, Shalom Mission Communities. The two groups have come to embrace a transnational communion with one another despite the economic, political, and spiritual chasms that exist today. This work is a collective, collaborative effort of storytelling and theological reflection, interweaving oral and written accounts of suffering, thanksgiving, sharing, remembering, and proclaiming the death of Christ until he comes again.

Spanish for the IB MYP 4 & 5 (Phases 3-5)

Spanish for the IB MYP 4 & 5 (Phases 3-5)
Author: J. Rafael Angel
Publisher: Hodder Education
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2015-10-23
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1471841898

The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key MYP concepts and related concepts at the heart of each chapter. - Learn by asking questions with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by experienced educators. - Understand how to extend your learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities. This title is also available in two digital formats via Dynamic Learning. Find out more by clicking on the links at the top of the page.

Nuevos mundos

Nuevos mundos
Author: Ana Roca
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0470588985

This book develops the communication and literacy skills of heritage Spanish speakers with exercises that are designed to improve oral and written proficiency in the language. Nuevos mundos uses the cultures and voices of the major Hispanic groups in the United States, as well as those of Latin America and Spain, to familiarize students with a variety of issues and topics, which are sometimes controversial and always thought-provoking.

For Every Indio who Falls

For Every Indio who Falls
Author: Betsy Konefal
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010
Genre: Guatemala
ISBN: 0826348653

By following indigenous organizing experiences at multiple levels--local, regional, national, and international--this book explores how some Mayas became involved in political activism and opposition to a repressive state.

Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Author: Oscar Hijuelos
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538740621

When it was first published in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love became an international bestselling sensation, winning rave reviews and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that changed the landscape of American literature returns with a new afterword by Oscar Hijuelos. Here is the story of the memorable Castillo brothers, from Havana to New York's Upper West Side. The lovelorn songwriter Nestor and his macho brother Cesar find success in the city's dance halls and beyond playing the rhythms that earn them their band's name, as they struggle with elusive fame and lost love in a richly sensual tale that has become a cultural touchstone and an enduring favorite.

Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution

Fidel in the Cuban Socialist Revolution
Author: José Bell Lara
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004415734

The book makes accessible a selection of speeches and television appearances by Fidel Castro during the first two years of the Cuban Revolution, allowing for a fresh analysis of his ideological evolution towards socialism.