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San Antonio 365: On This Day in History tells one story a day in the history of the Alamo City, from popular lore to lesser known events critical to understanding its people and culture. The result is a treasure trove of remarkable tales highlighting small ripples that created big waves in the region’s history. The stories in San Antonio 365 are fun and enlightening slices of history, but they also highlight our collective need to learn from the past. Internationally known as a center of business and tourism, San Antonio has also been the site of significant episodes in the fight for equal rights and justice, the importance of economic and cultural diversity, and the evolution of good gove...
Observed in Mexico and parts of the United States, El Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebratory holiday. Los Muertos is the first anthology of fiction relating to or inspired by this bicultural tradition. Each of the two dozen Mexican and Mexican American writers featured here has a unique affinity for the myriad ideas connected closely to the El Día de Muertos—some in less obvious ways. The stories connect to the metaphors and connotations related to memorializing the dead, some reflecting on the ritualized and religious aspects of what has become a commercialized holiday and others reacting to such cultural appropriations. In celebration and reconciliation, stories like Ales...
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Catala, president of the Ometeca Institute, and a poet and critic, and Anderson (communication, information, and library science, Rutgers U.) have collaborated to produce this index to the poetry in 290 periodicals in North America and the Caribbean. Although the editors limited inclusion based upon the quality of the poems, their presentation, and the reputation of the poets, the poetry and periodicals indexed come from a wide variety of styles and genres, from scholarly, to popular, to small independent publications. The Index includes 7,210 entries for individual poets listed alphabetically by last name, as well as a separate index using poem titles or first lines. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Stories about the Day of the Dead tradition and the cultural understanding of death
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Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which teachers might improve schooling. While there is a vast body of literature in this field, editors Edward A. Janak and Denise Blum have created a text which differs in two substantive ways: scope and sequence. In terms of scope, this work is unique in two facets: first, it presents both theory and practice in one volume, bridging the two worlds; and second, it includes lessons from secondary and post...