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En el contexto del marco de Guadalajara Capital Mundial del Libro, desde la División de Estudios Históricos y Humanos y el Departamento de Letras de la Universidad de Guadalajara, se lanzó la convocatoria al concurso de cuento: Guadalajara en el siglo XXI a través de sus jóvenes narradores, dirigida a los estudiantes de nivel superior de esta institución. Con el propósito de honrar el lema de esta celebración, que concibe al libro y la lectura como herramientas de construcción de paz y que permitan a su vez difundir el conocimiento y la cultura, este concurso promueve la creación de historias de la vida cotidinana de nuestra ciudad, y aunado a ello el fortalecimiento de la idea de ser tapatío. Algunas de las historias que conforman esta publicación exponen la violencia como parte de la cotidianidad de la vida de los jóvenes. Este libro nos hace reflexionar acerca de lo que significa vivir en una ciudad desbordada por una agobiante e interminable violencia física, emocional, económica y cultural.
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the e...
The unforgettable novel—and the basis for the feature film—about Carlito Brigante, a Harlem drug dealer in the 1960s, and his rise to the top. Carlito Brigante is just another Spanish Harlem street punk with a poor boy’s dream of flash and fast money. But as he gets older he determines that it’s either take or be taken, and he knows which role he intends to play. Soon he’s a mob-connected professional with an easy charm, joie de vivre, stubborn pride, and hair-trigger temper. But the rules change rapidly in a sudden-death world of scams, sell-outs, and payback, where only the strongest and smartest predator can be king of the barrio. And when there’s a major changing of the guard in the top echelons of the mob, Carlito will have some hard choices to make. Taut, thrilling, and a joy to read, Carlito’s Way established a voice that has lost none of its vivid color or power to enthrall. “Exhilarating . . . Boils with raw energy.” —Newsweek
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