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“tim mcintosh”

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  • Leadership Peruvian Style

    How Peruvians Define and Practice Leadership

    by Tim McIntosh ...
    Leadership across cultural borders is the new frontier in leadership studies. Increased globalization means leaders are dealing with a variety of cultures in and out of their own countries. Leaders must be experts in understanding what cultural dimensions mean for being effective outside their own comfort zone. Americans in particular are often ill-equipped to understand the cultural complexities ... Read more

    $3.99 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

    $17.99 USD

  • Bracero Railroaders

    The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. West

    by Erasmo Gamboa ...
    Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly the West. Although both governments promised the workers adequate living arrangements and fair ... Read more

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  • Shameful Victory

    The Los Angeles Dodgers, the Red Scare, and the Hidden History of Chavez Ravine

    by John H. M. Laslett ...
    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 of 3,500 families from the unique hilltop barrio that in 1962 became the home of the Los Angeles ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Racial Middle

    Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide

    by Eileen O’Brien ...
    The divide over race is usually framed as one over Black and White. Sociologist Eileen O’Brien is interested in that middle terrain, what sits in the ever-increasing gray area she dubbed the racial middle.The Racial Middle, tells the story of the other racial and ethnic groups in America, mainly Latinos and Asian Americans, two of the largest and fastest-growing minorities in the United States. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • House Built on Ashes

    A Memoir

    by José Antonio Rodríguez ...
    Series series Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series
    The year is 2009, and José Antonio Rodríguez, a doctoral student at Binghamton University in upstate New York, is packing his suitcase, getting ready to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with his parents in South Texas. He soon learns from his father that a drug cartel has overtaken the Mexican border village where he was born. Now, because of the violence there, he won’t be able to visit his early ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Spit and Passion

    by Cristy C. Road ...
    Series series Blindspot Graphics
    Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you—suddenly, you belong. In this graphic memoir, cult illustrator Cristy C. Road brings "to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker" (Bitch).At twelve years old, Cristy is trying to balance the values of a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer ... Read more

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  • On Strike and on Film

    Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America

    by Ellen R. Baker ...
    In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines — an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film, Ellen Baker examines the building of a leftist union that linked class ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Spiritual Mestizaje

    Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative

    by Theresa Delgadillo ...
    Series series Latin America otherwise
    Gloria Anzaldúa’s narrative and theoretical innovations, particularly her concept of mestiza consciousness, have influenced critical thinking about colonialism, gender, history, language, religion, sexuality, spirituality, and subjectivity. Yet Anzaldúa’s theory of spiritual mestizaje has not been extensively studied until now. Taking up that task, Theresa Delgadillo reveals spiritual mestizaje as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Transforming Indigeneity

    Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon

    by Sarah Shulist ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on both global issues of language revitalization ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • From the Edge

    Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print

    by Allison E. Fagan ...
    Series series Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
    Chicana/o literature frequently depicts characters who exist in a vulnerable liminal space, living on the border between Mexican and American identities, and sometimes pushed to the edge by authorities who seek to restrict their freedom. As this groundbreaking new study reveals, the books themselves have occupied similarly precarious positions, as Chicana/o literature has struggled for economic ... Read more

    $22.29 USD