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Learning to Hide
Just inside the school doors from the back parking lot, in the farthest reaches from the school entrance, there is a short corridor that leads to the hallway that houses Washington River High School’s two English Learning classrooms. These classrooms offer both safe sanctuary for the school’s growing population of Latinx students and a troublingly hidden space that allows most of the school and community to maintain the pretense of the generally prosperous, White, neighbor-helping-neighbor place of their myopic nostalgia. This Mayberry-like imaginary excludes the divisive sociopolitical battles of the last decade that have earned Washington River both local and national attention for a c...
The Bear and His Sons
All the world over, people tell stories to express their deepest feelings about such things as what makes a "real" man or woman; what true love, courage, or any other virtue is; what the proper relationships are between people. Often groups of people widely separated by space or time will tell the same basic story, but with differences in the details that reveal much about a particular group's worldview. This book looks at differences in the telling of several common Hispanic folktales. James Taggart contrasts how two men—a Spaniard and an Aztec-speaking Mexican—tell such tales as "The Bear's Son." He explores how their stories present different ways of being a man in their respective cu...
Countdown to Justice
Fresh from successfully defending a Texas billionaire, Gabriela Sanchez wants to avoid the media spotlight. Then she is asked to represent Gina Rossi, a determined, driven, cold-as-ice lawyer who refuses to testify in a grand jury bribery investigation of her client and the former Texas governor. Defending a client against the Department of Justice is at best a daunting task, but Gina Rossi makes it even more difficult when she is unwilling to listen to Gabriela’s legal advice and refuses to tell her all of the important facts. Rossi claims she cannot testify because of the lawyer-client privilege and she asserts the government will charge her with perjury if she doesn’t tell the story they want to hear. Why is Gina willing to go to jail, risk her career and take on the Department of Justice? Gabriela believes Gina knows something that she needs to keep secret. How far is Gina willing to go to keep what she knows secret?
Black Society in Spanish Florida
The first extensive study of the African American community under colonial Spanish rule, Black Society in Spanish Florida provides a vital counterweight to the better-known dynamics of the Anglo slave South. Jane Landers draws on a wealth of untapped primary sources, opening a new vista on the black experience in America and enriching our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom.
101 Flowers
On our planet there are too many types and species of flowers of different shapes, sizes and colors, and all of them are magnificent. I made this coloring book with the purpose of making it a tool for fun and relaxation and as antidote to stress, which according to experts is the disease of the 21st century. I hope you enjoy it. Gabriela Sánchez Duarte
The Shadow of the Wall
Thanks to hundreds of interviews with Mexican deportees, this book puts a real face on discussions of immigration and border policies--Provided by publisher.
Disaster in the Early Modern World
How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750. Covering topics that range from new thinking about risk and securitisation to the protection of dikes from shipworm, and with a geography that extends from Europe to Spanish America, the volume places early modern disaster studies squarely at the intersection of intellectual, cultural and socio-economic history. This period witnessed fresh speculation on nature, the diffusion of disaster narratives and imagery and unprecedented attempts to control the physical world. The book will be essential to specialists and students of environmental history and disaster, as well as general readers who seek to discover how pre-industrial societies addressed some of the same foundational issues we grapple with today.
