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Big Scary Brown Guy
Outside of the stories of Latinx immigrants, drug cartels, and refugees lie the narratives of those Latinxs who have been in the United States for many generations. Big Scary Brown Guy is a testament to those marginalized within the crossroads nation, culture, and family. Taking a clear-eyed view of his life, Christopher Gonzá lez narrates how his and his family's experiences in a society whose structure is designed and determined to keep people like himself on the fringes has created a person that White America often fears and loathes-- the large, brown-skinned, Latino intellectual who speaks truth to power. He reveals painful and humorous moments in his life that give a greater, more nuanced understanding of Latinxs in the United States. He interrogates the racist and inequitable underpinnings of the US as they manifest in Gonzá lez's embodied experiences in an often confused and certainly troubled family, using a blend of elegant and sardonic prose, with literary and pop cultural allusions and everything in between. Big Scary Brown Guy illuminates the Gen X Latinx generation for all to see with keen precision and heartbreaking wit.
I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat
Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt the stories of I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat. A college grad reunites with a high school crush when invited to his bachelor party, a lonely cat-sitter wreaks havoc on his friends' apartment, happy hour French fries leave more than grease on lips and fingers, and, squeezed into a diner booth, one man eats past his limit for the sake of friendship. Exploring the lives of bisexual and gay Puerto Rican men, these fifteen stories show a vulnerable, intimate world of yearning and desire. The stars of these narratives linger between living their truest selves and remaining in the wings, embarking on a journey of self-discovery to satisfy their hunger for companionship and belonging.
Homefront
Homefront explores a different perspective on marriage, family and culture. Humorous, edgy and sometimes just plain weird, Homefront will get you thinking about you life and the place that life is lived.
Lean Thinking for Healthcare
A growing, aging population; the rise to epidemic proportions of various chronic diseases; competing, often overlapping medical technologies; and of course, skyrocketing costs compounded by waste and inefficiency - these are just a few of the multifarious challenges currently facing healthcare delivery. An unexpected source of solutions is being imported from the manufacturing sector: lean thinking. Lean Principles for Healthcare presents a conceptual framework, management principles, and practical tools for professionals tasked with designing and implementing modern, streamlined healthcare systems or overhauling faulty ones. Focusing on core components such as knowledge management, e-health...
The Path Between Us
Over 100,000 Copies Sold Worldwide! IVP Readers' Choice Award Most of us have no idea how others see or process their experiences. And that can make relationships hard, whether with intimate partners, with friends, or in our professional lives. Understanding the motivations and dynamics of these different personality types can be the key that unlocks sometimes mystifying behavior in others—and in ourselves. This book from Suzanne Stabile on the nine Enneagram types and how they behave and experience relationships will guide readers into deeper insights about themselves, their types, and others' personalities so that they can have healthier, more life-giving relationships. No one is better ...
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
The history of America’s civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic novels and graphic memoirs present an opportunity to push against the consensus and create a more complete history. Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement showcases five vivid examples of this: Ho Che Anderson's King (2005), which complicates the standard biography of Martin Luther King Jr.; Congressman John Lewis's three-volume memoir, March (2013–2016); Darkroom (2012), by Lila Quintero Weaver, in which the author recalls her Argentinian father’s participation in the movement and her child...
Not Viable An Autobiography of an American Nationalist
Not Viable: An Autobiography of an American Nationalist is the story of American nationalist, activist, and former congressional candidate Nick Taurus. The work explores the difficulties in infiltrating the political mainstream, the inherent hypocrisy of the GOP political establishment, and the continued ideological awakening of millions of White Americans who have grown dissatisfied with the current trajectory of our country. Although Not Viable is the story of one man, Nick Taurus, and his long-shot candidacy in the 2022 midterms, the story itself is a commentary on our broken political system. American politics is far from this virtuous process our elites want us to believe it is, while the levels of ethnic nepotism, backroom dealing, and blackballing is truly astounding. Not Viable is meant as a "middle finger" to established American political orthodoxy, and this work hopes to demonstrate that the machinations of our bankrupt political class is what's truly "not viable" in American politics today.
When the "other" is Ourselves
This dissertation begins with the premise that the founding assumptions undergirding the interdisciplinary field of Tourism Studies have necessarily, if not inevitably, engendered a set of critical lacunae around race and ethnicity. Specifically, these assumptions have functioned to circumscribe any racial paradigm in which people of color are anything but the objects of touristic inquiry. "When the 'other' is ourselves: imperial legacies, tourist imaginaries, and the representation of difference in Chicana/o travel writing and cultural production" asks what subjectivities are (re)formed when the supposed "Other" is doing the touring, particularly when that someone encounters what she senses is an exoticized or fetishized reflection of herself. Through an examination of Chicana/o memoirs, visual art, and fiction that center Mexican-American (actual and imagined, factual and fictionalized) experiences of touristic mobility, this study considers new and different questions about identity, difference, and representation in literary and cultural discourses.
A Promising Problem
Chicana/o history has reached an intriguing juncture. While academic and intellectual studies are embracing new, highly nuanced perspectives on race, class, gender, education, identity, and community, the field itself continues to be viewed as a battleground, subject to attacks from outside academia by those who claim that the discipline promotes racial hatred and anti-Americanism. Against a backdrop of deportations and voter suppression targeting Latinos, A Promising Problem presents the optimistic voices of scholars who call for sophisticated solutions while embracing transnationalism and the reality of multiple, overlapping identities. Showcasing a variety of new directions, this antholog...
