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In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the largest and most widespread civil rights protests by Mexican Americans in U.S. history. This fascinating testimonio, or oral history, transcribed and presented in Castro's voice by historian Mario T. Garcia, is a compelling, highly readable narrative of a young boy growing up in Los Angeles who made history by his leadership in the blowouts and in his career as a dedicated and committed teacher. Blowout! fills a major void in the history of the civil rights and Chicano movements of the 1960s, particularly the struggle for educational justice.
Latino Generation: Voices of the New America
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Discusses how the Mexican immigrants and their descendants have contributed to America's past, present, and future
This is the first book to focus on the life of labor and social justice advocate Dolores Huerta through her own writings, articles about her, and a recent interview with editor Mario Garcia.
In seinem Notizbuch lädt Mario Garcia Torres die Leser dazu ein, an seinen Gedanken zum Verhältnis von Gast-Sein und Gastgeberschaft teilzuhaben. Welche Reaktionen werden ausgelöst, wenn man eine Einladung erhält? Wie agiert man in einem vorgegebenen Kontext und wie lässt sich daraus ausbrechen, lassen sich die beiden Rollen vertauschen? Garcia Torres umkreist diese Fragen anhand von Beispielen anderer Künstler, die sich explizit in eine der Rollen begeben haben: Alighieri Boetti mit seinem One Hotel in Kabul und Allen Ruppersberg mit Al's Grand Hotel in Los Angeles in die des Gastgebers; auf der anderen Seite Daniel Buren als Gast eines 1989 durch einen Wirbelsturm zerstörten Resorts auf Saint Croix, einer der Jungferninseln, wo er In-situ-Arbeiten installierte, sowie Martin Kippenberger, der im Hotel Chelsea in Köln lebte. Wir sind dabei seine Gäste und müssen entscheiden, was wir mitbringen wollen: eine Flasche Wein oder einen Blumenstrauß. Mario Garcia Torres (*1975) ist Künstler und lebt in Mexiko-Stadt. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch
Mario García Joya's A La Plaza con Fidel (To the Plaza with Fidel) is a rarity among the few photobooks to come out of Cuba after the Revolution. Photographed by the leading Cuban photographer and cinematographer 'Mayito' (Mario Garcia Joya) between 1959 and 1966 and later published in 1970, the book focuses its attention towards the vast crowds of Castro's supporters and the festive atmosphere surrounding the revolution felt even at a time of the country's more difficult economic moments. Books on Books #21 presents this little known book in its entirety with essays by historian Leandro Villaro.
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Presenting the latest developments in the field, Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design offers a novel take on advanced control engineering design techniques for wind turbine applications. The book introduces concurrent quantitative engineering techniques for the design of highly efficient and reliable controllers, which can be used to solve the most critical problems of multi-megawatt wind energy systems. This book is based on the authors’ experience during the last two decades designing commercial multi-megawatt wind turbines and control systems for industry leaders, including NASA and the European Space Agency. This work is their response to the urgent need for a truly reliable...
Mario Garcia, the man who redesigned The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and over 700 other newspapers around the world, illuminates his storytelling strategies for the mobile news age.