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“brad h wright”

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  • Strength in Unity

    Christian Base Communities and the Urban Popular Movement in Guadalajara, 1965–1994

    by Brad H. Wright ...
    Examines how poor and working-class communities in Guadalajara organized through faith, education, and culture to claim dignity, justice, and the right to the city.Strength in Unity: Christian Base Communities and the Urban Popular Movement in Guadalajara, 1965–1994 presents the grassroots history of Guadalajara’s urban popular movement, centering the voices and struggles of poor and working-class ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Liberation Theology and the Others

    Contextualizing Catholic Activism in 20th Century Latin America

    by Andrea Müller, Noah Oehri, Juan Miguel Espinoza Portocarrero, Josef Estermann, Américo Freire, Lorena García Mourelle, Aline Helg, Rolando Iberico Ruiz, Betsy Konefal0, Eben Levey1, Andrew Orta2, Brad H. Wright3, Christian Büschges4 ...
    Looking beyond prominent figures or major ecclesial events, Liberation Theology and the Others offers a fresh historical perspective on Latin American liberation theology. Thirteen case studies, from Mexico to Uruguay, depict a vivid picture of religious and lay activism that shaped the profile of the Latin American Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century. Stressing the ... Read more

    $107.79 USD

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  • San Miguel de Allende

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  • Kuxlejal Politics

    Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities

    by Mariana Mora ...
    Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana Mora’s more than ten years of extended research and solidarity work in Chiapas, with Tseltal and ... Read more

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  • Shaky Colonialism

    The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath

    by Charles F. Walker ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On ... Read more

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  • Defiant Braceros

    How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom

    by Mireya Loza ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942–1964), a binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to enter this country on temporary work permits. While this program and the issue of temporary workers has long been politicized on both sides of the ... Read more

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  • Courage Tastes of Blood

    The Mapuche Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2001

    by Daniel J. Walkowitz, Florencia E. Mallon ...
    Series series Radical Perspectives
    Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers. Courage Tastes of Blood helps to rectify this situation. It tells the story of one Mapuche community—Nicolás Ailío, located in the south of the country—across the entire twentieth century, from its founding in the resettlement process that followed the ... Read more

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  • Women and Guerrilla Movements

    Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba

    by Karen Kampwirth ...
    The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new men" who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show ... Read more

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  • Unintended Lessons of Revolution

    Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico

    by Tanalís Padilla ...
    In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales—boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ranks and meant to cultivate state allegiance, their graduates would facilitate land distribution, organize civic festivals, and promote hygiene campaigns. In Unintended Lessons of Revolution, Tanalís Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing ... Read more

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  • Rebel Mexico

    Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties

    by Jaime M. Pensado ...
    Winner of the 2014 Mexican Book PrizeIn the middle of the twentieth century, a growing tide of student activism in Mexico reached a level that could not be ignored, culminating with the 1968 movement. This book traces the rise, growth, and consequences of Mexico's "student problem" during the long sixties (1956-1971). Historian Jaime M. Pensado closely analyzes student politics and youth culture ... Read more

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  • Jesuit Education and Social Change in El Salvador

    by Charles J. Beirne, S.J. ...
    Series series RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
    This book examines a unique university model for social change-the University of Central America Jos Sime-n Ca-as (UCA) in El Salvador, where the military murdered six Jesuit priests and two women on November 16, 1989.The book addresses such important questions as: Is the role of a university to train managers for maintaining the status quo, or to prepare graduates who will help create a new ... Read more

    $47.99 USD