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  • Winter Park

    by Jim Norris, Claire Strom, Danielle Johnson, Sydney Marshall ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    Winter Park is a unique community in central Florida. Its old-world charm and walkable downtown have drawn visitors from around the country and the world since the town's foundation in the 1880s. Residents and visitors alike enjoy the city's world-class cultural offerings, including the largest collection of Tiffany glass in the Morse Museum, the music of the Bach Festival Society, and theatrical ... Read more

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  • Winter Park

    by Jim Norris, Claire Strom, Danielle Johnson, Sydney Marshall ...
    Series series Images of America
    Winter Park was founded in the 1880s as a balmy paradise for rich Northerners seeking to escape the tribulations of harsh winters or improve their health. The wealth involved in its foundation is still evident in the city's beautiful buildings, a planned African American neighborhood, and a preeminent liberal arts college. The community revolves around a series of picturesque lakes, offering ... Read more

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  • Los Olivos

    by Jim Norris ...
    Series series Images of America
    Los Olivos was named for central Santa Barbara County wine country�s other small fruit. The local fascination for vineyards is fairly new, but Los Olivos has thrived as a community since not long after Native American days. Los Olivos grew important enough to local trade and travel to become the inland terminus of the narrow-gauge Pacific Coast Railway, which zigzagged southeasterly from Avila ... Read more

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  • North for the Harvest

    Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry

    by Jim Norris ...
    Examines the complex and often suprising relationships between the participants in the sugar beet industry.Throughout most of the twentieth century, thousands of Mexicans traveled north to work the sugar beet fields of the Minnesota–North Dakota Red River Valley. North for the Harvest examines the evolution of the relationships between American Crystal Sugar Company, the sugar beet growers, and ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Violence Girl

    East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

    by Alice Bag ...
    East L.A. punk pioneer Alice Bag tells the raw, feminist memoir of survival, music, and the birth of West Coast punk. Violence Girl is the memoir of Alicia Armendariz—better known as Alice Bag—frontwoman of The Bags and one of the earliest voices of the Los Angeles punk scene. Raised in East L.A. by Mexican-born parents and shaped by a turbulent, often violent home life, Armendariz crossed ... Read more

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  • Undocumented

    How Immigration Became Illegal

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times).In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and ... Read more

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  • Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro

    Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality

    by Gloria Anzaldua ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions. ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Academic Profiling

    Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

    by Gilda L. Ochoa ...
    Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived ... Read more

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  • An Other's Mind

    by Luis Quiros ...
    An Others Mind is a landmark and brilliant piece of research on Social Policy and its relationship with covert and overt institutional racism. Professor Quiros addresses everyday racism in corporate America, not-for-profit agencies and academic settings. It is written with a combination of depth and clarity of the haves and have nots. He gives clear examples of discrimination, oppression and ... Read more

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  • The Borders of Dominicanidad

    Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction

    by Lorgia García Peña ...
    In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic Haitians, and Dominicans living abroad have contested these dominant narratives and their violent, ... Read more

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  • The Texas Revolution: Tejano Heroes

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    by Roy F. Sullivan ...
    Most Americans are aware that Texas gained its independence from Santa Annas Mexico in the 1840s. Mention of the Alamo evokes the familiar names of heroes like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and William Travis. All too often another group of heroes, heroines and patriots who fought and died for the independence of Texas is overlooked. The sacrifices, bravery and valor of that group--the Tejanos, Texans ... Read more

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