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In the Time of Sky-Rhyming
Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the rise of Hip Hop on the West Coast and the integral role the Los Angeles Latine community had on the movement - and in turn, Hip Hop's impact on Latines as it became a space for community, expression, and coping with inequality. Building his narrative around interviews and oral histories, he explores how incoming migrants, local-born Latines, and other minoritized populations joined Black Americans in the 1980s to build early underground sites of Hip Hop innovation, contributing to the genre's global expansion. The book details how Hip Hop's deep impact on Latines was based in part on the inequality, marginalization, and injustice that many Latines of this er...
Speak, Okinawa
Here's a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child. Here's another version. The U.S. military has occupied Okinawa since World War Two, after slaughtering a third of the island's population; the beautiful Japanese woman lives in poverty and marries the soldier as a way to escape. Here's a third version. A little girl grows up with a mother who can't pronounce her name. She meets blood relatives with whom she cannot communicate. She clings to a sense of whiteness that white peers will not let h...
Los Falcón
Una impresionante novela debut sobre la lucha de una joven madre peruana indocumentada que está dispuesta a darlo todo por su familia y su nueva vida en Nueva York. Ana Falcón, junto con su esposo Lucho y sus dos hijos pequeños, huyeron de la lucha económica y política del Perú en busca de una nueva vida en la ciudad de Nueva York en la década de los 90. Sin embargo, al ser una inmigrante indocumentada, sus oportunidades se ven reducidas. En poco tiempo, Ana se encuentra endeudada con una prestamista que se hace llamar Mamá, y sus largos turnos de trabajo en la fábrica son cada vez más extenuantes. Para empeorar las cosas, Ana también debe soportar las incesantes críticas de Vale...
Jack Straw Writers Anthology Vol. 25
An anthology featuring the writing of the 2021 Jack Straw Writers, as selected by Curator E. J. Koh: S. Erin Batiste, C.R. Glasgow, Patrycja Humienik, Grace Jahng Lee, José Luis Montero, Greg November, Tochukwu Okafor, Michael Overa, Paulette Perhach, Abi Pollokoff, Kristie Song, and Daniel Tam-Claiborne.
Love Beyond Measure
A true story of Ock Soon Lee (Pega Crimbchin), a Korean peasant who survived some of life's most unspeakable suffering during the Korean War. Her courage, strength, hope and love transformed her life as a Korean peasant to that of an American citizen.
Ginny Good
A novel set in the 60's by a writer who lived through them.
To Love the Coming End
Love is remembered as a jungle of flora and fauna cleaved by tectonic shock and human fault. A restless narrator stirs between Singapore, Fukushima, and Vancouver with prose that engulfs like radioactive mist. Personal, geographic, political, and cultural environments take on one another's qualities, culminating volcanically in the Tohoku earthquake that shatters Japan.
Korean For Dummies
Studying Korean for business or travel? Learn the fun and easy way with this practical guide that teaches the basics of the Korean language and culture Korean For Dummies is a no-nonsense guide to Korean culture and the basics of Korean language. Pick up basic phrases and commonly used words so that you can converse with Koreans in both business and personal situations. You'll learn Korean for everyday life and task-specific expressions for Korean on the go. In addition, you’ll discover important and fascinating aspects of Korean culture. This handy guide won't burden you with lists of grammar rules; just look up the phrases and cultural phrases you need or read through the whole book for ...
Emotion Regulation and Well-Being
Emotion is a basic phenomenon of human functioning, most of the time having an adaptive value enhancing our effectiveness in pursuing our goals in the broadest sense. Regulation of these emotions, however, is essential for adaptive functioning, and suboptimal or dysfunctional emotion regulation may even be counterproductive and result in adverse consequences, including a poor well-being and ill health. This volume provides a state-of-the art overview of issues related to the association between emotion regulation and both mental and physical well-being. It covers various areas of research highly relevant to both researchers in the field and clinicians working with emotion regulation issues i...
The Foundation Stone of Nordic Larp
Official book of Knutpunkt 2014. Published in conjunction with the Knutpunkt 2014 conference.
