Ethnic category: 7100 books
by Derrick Woolhouse Paxton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
This is the result of many facets of life and travel. It is an effort to factually show just how much we take for granted into our daily lives, without consideration, the value of historical finds discovered by those who seek them. It shows that we have chances and they take us into areas that are...
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System
Critical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Race, Women of Color, and the State University System focuses on challenges women of color experience or have experienced while teaching or pursuing administrative duties within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The book systematically examines how women of color —- administrators,...
by Richard A. Santillan, Victoria C. Norton, Christopher Docter
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Mexican American Baseball in the San Fernando Valley explores the teams and players that dotted the valley landscape throughout the 20th century. In a time and place where Mexican Americans were closed off from many city recreation centers, neighborhoods formed their own teams. Baseball and softball...
The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico
Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics, and Latin American Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, tortured revolutionaries, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other activists, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and...
The Colonias Reader
Economy, Housing and Public Health in U.S.-Mexico Border Colonias
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
The colonias of the U.S.–Mexico border form a loose network of more than 2,500 settlements, ranging in size from villages to cities, that are home to over a million people. While varying in size, all share common features: wrenching poverty, substandard housing, and public health issues approaching...
by Vernon M. Jr. Briggs, Walter Fogel, Fred H. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The Chicano Worker is an incisive analysis of the labor-market experiences of Mexican American workers in the late twentieth century. The authors—each established in the fields of labor economics and research on Chicano workers—describe the major employment patterns of the Chicano labor force and...
Constructing Identities in Mexican-American Political Organizations
Choosing Issues, Taking Sides
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The formation of a group identity has always been a major preoccupation of Mexican American political organizations, whether they seek to assimilate into the dominant Anglo society or to remain separate from it. Yet organizations that sought to represent a broad cross section of the Mexican American...
Undocumented in L.A.
An Immigrant's story
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Her story is similar to those of the thousands of illegal immigrants who cross the border into America every day in search of political or economic refuge. In 1988, a woman in her late thirties named Yamileth obtains a passport, leaves her home, and makes a daring, dangerous trip from war-torn Nicaragua...
Shameful Victory
The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
On May 8, 1959, the evening news shocked Los Angeles residents, who saw LA County sheriffs carrying a Mexican American woman from her home in Chavez Ravine not far from downtown. Immediately afterward, the house was bulldozed to the ground. This violent act was the last step in the forced eviction...
The Power of Huacas
Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists...
China's Bitter Victory: War with Japan, 1937-45
War with Japan, 1937-45
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
"China's Bitter Victory" is a comprehensive analysis of China's epochal war with Japan. Striving for a holistic understanding of China's wartime experience, the contributors examine developments in the Nationalist, communist, and Japanese-occupied areas of the country. More than just a history...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Wartime Shanghai is a lively account of the political and social situation between 1937 and 1946. It explores the deep political rivalries between Nationalist groups, the intrigue of international espionage and how Shanghai society, from European administrators to Chinese film makers, collaborated...
by Thomas E. Stolper
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
First published in 1985, this book is about an important episode, and two of its sequels, in Beijing’s long struggle to achieve two goals, by force if necessary. First, to prevent the US from detaching Taiwan from China and establishing Taiwan as a universally recognized separate and independent...
by Tennant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
"Go with me to a land whose life for ages has been a mystery", wrote a 19th-century visitor to Korea, "a land which from time unknown has kept aloof, whose people might have been the denizens of another planet". He may not have known that in the 4th century AD they had controlled...