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Author | : Ernesto Quinonez |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062030434 |
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A young man seeks a better life in Spanish Harlem—even as he helps burn it down—in this “searing portrait of a community at the tipping point” (Booklist). In New York City’s Spanish Harlem, Julio and Maritza are each searching for a path that will give their lives meaning, no matter how shadowed by controversy. Julio is an arsonist for hire, pocketing thousands of dollars from investors eager to capitalize on more expensive real estate. But when he has reason to stop setting his neighborhood ablaze and vows to change his ways, Julio’s employers threaten his life—and the lives of those close to him. Maritza, meanwhile, has become the pastor of a progressive Pentecostal church—the perfect cover for the scam she’s running. For the right price, she’ll make anyone an American citizen. With a cast of characters as colorful as the city itself, Ernesto Quiñonez brings a vibrant community and landscape to life in this follow-up to his acclaimed novel Bodega Dreams
Author | : William Kennedy |
Publisher | : Penguin Books |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143122045 |
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Ironweed," a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers. This is an unforgettably riotous story of romance and redemption set against the landscape of the civil rights movement.
Author | : Crescencio Lopez-Gonzalez |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2020-01-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498570275 |
Download The Latinx Urban Condition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Latinx Urban Condition brings interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature into conversation, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960’s to the present. As a cultural studies analyst of U.S. Latinx urban literature and culture, the book focuses on analyzing the works of Latinx authors who write about the cities in which they were raised and how growing up in these environments shaped their lives, their communities, and their future. Their fictional work helps us understand how the human and cultural tapestry of the Latinx community is inextricably connected to the spatial transformations taking place in many cities across the country, most notably within the cities in which the narratives take place. The main purpose is to analyze the symbolic realities lived by the characters in order to understand how Latino families and communities are experiencing displacement under instituted neoliberal policies, a process known as development and progress or gentrification. These processes are experienced through aspects of privatization, deregulation, homelessness, residential segregation, inequality, unemployment, and poverty.
Author | : Monique Joiner Siedlak |
Publisher | : Oshun Publications, LLC |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2023-05-28 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1956319956 |
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Updated 2023 The Seven African Powers, also known as the Orishas, are spirits from the Supreme Creator in African religion. These spirits are thought to give guidance for life issues and problems. Modern Santeria, Voodoo, and other Caribbean traditions still value this practice today. It can be found in different South American cultures as well. This book will guide you through learning about the Seven African Powers…who they are, what they represent, and how each has a different temperament. You’ll also know how the Orishas can be used in your home and daily routine. Once you discover the Orishas, you’ll be on your way to understanding which one will best help you work through difficulties and move forward in life.
Author | : Barbara Taylor |
Publisher | : Kingfisher |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Apes |
ISBN | : 9780753431603 |
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Make science accessible with this essential series that will capture children's imagination while laying the foundation for future learning. With age-appropriate language and an eye-catching design, the Discover Science series gives young readers the answers to fundamental questions about the human body, animals, planet Earth and the Solar System. In Apes and Monkeys you can shelter from a storm with a baby orang-utan, swing through the trees with a gibbon and make a marvellous monkey mobile for your classroom.
Author | : Sanz, Nuria |
Publisher | : UNESCO Publishing |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2015-04-13 |
Genre | : Embalming |
ISBN | : 9231000209 |
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Author | : Joseph Deniker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Wilfred Arvizu |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781500533731 |
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In a series of recollections, writer Wilfred Arvizu, an original member of the young mariachi group, tears back the curtain and provides an inside look on how he and others dealt with a pedophile priest who was at once a self-confessed agnostic and not-so-self-confessed alcoholic and possible bi-sexual.
Author | : Ernesto Quiñonez |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-01-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0804154058 |
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In this "thriller with literary merit" (Time Out New York), a stunning narrative combines the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley. Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish Harlem, where the word is out: Willie Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty—and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Lyrical, inspired, and darkly funny, this powerful debut novel brilliantly evokes the trial of Chino, a smart, promising young man to whom Bodega turns for a favor. Chino is drawn to Bodega's street-smart idealism, but soon finds himself over his head, navigating an underworld of switchblade tempers, turncoat morality, and murder. "Bodega is a fascinating character. . . . The story [Quiñonez] tells has energy and verve." —The New York Times Book Review
Author | : Oscar Casares |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2008-12-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316055174 |
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"Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest. At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade, and where the only real certainty is that life holds surprises. In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change. The achievement of Brownsville lies in its remarkably honest portrayal of these lives -- the lives of people whose dreams and yearnings and regrets are at once unique and universal. "Marvelous...Brownsville resembles early Steinbeck work more than anything else." --Carolyn See, Washington Post