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Author | : Judith Adler Hellman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781565841789 |
A portrait of the Mexican experience illuminates such topics as NAFTA, political assassinations, the Chiapas rebellion, and national election fraud, and considers the impact of these events on the bordering United States. Reprint.
Author | : Devon G. Peña |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2022-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816550824 |
Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life—activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others—who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteño land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Peña contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.
Author | : Stephanie Elizondo Griest |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416579710 |
Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers), marching with rebel teachers in Oaxaca, investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist, and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along the way.
Author | : Chuy Renteria |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609388054 |
We Heard It When We Were Young tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American, who is torn between cultures: between immigrant parents trying to acclimate to midwestern life and a town that is, by turns, supportive and disturbingly antagonistic.
Author | : Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 1982-09-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520907019 |
Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico–from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help–Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.
Author | : Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545532345 |
A modern classic for our time and for all time-this beloved, award-winning bestseller resonates with fresh meaning for each new generation. Perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Christopher Paul Curtis, and Rita Williams-Garcia. Pura Belpre Award Winner * "Readers will be swept up." -Publishers Weekly, starred review Esperanza thought she'd always live a privileged life on her family's ranch in Mexico. She'd always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home filled with servants, and Mama, Papa, and Abuelita to care for her. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. Esperanza isn't ready for the hard work, financial struggles brought on by the Great Depression, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When Mama gets sick and a strike for better working conditions threatens to uproot their new life, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances--because Mama's life, and her own, depend on it.
Author | : Donna Pierce |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2004-05-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0914738496 |
"The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Robert Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520244125 |
'Mexican New York' offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants & their children in New York & in Mexico.
Author | : Tony Cohan |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0307567990 |
An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air. Awakened to needs they didn’t know they had, they returned to California, sold their house and cast off for a new life in San Miguel de Allende. On Mexican Time is Cohan's evocatively written memoir of how he and his wife absorb the town's sensual ambiance, eventually find and refurbish a crumbling 250-year-old house, and become entwined in the endless drama of Mexican life. Brimming with mystery, joy, and hilarity, On Mexican Time is a stirring, seductive celebration of another way of life—a tale of Americans who, finding a home in Mexico, find themselves anew.
Author | : Richard W. Etulain |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826324337 |
This book will appeal to anyone interested in knowing more about how a fascinating mix of people of various cultures have molded New Mexico's history.