Borderland Dreams

Author : June Hee Kwon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027460
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borderland Dreams written by June Hee Kwon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to “leave to live better” at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and post–Cold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.

Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borderland written by William Thomas Stead and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Tone
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0812989600
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bones written by Joe Tone and published by One World. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border—and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the same violent crossroads—with considerable help from the FBI and an enigmatic, all-American snitch. José was a devoted family man who cut no corners in his pursuit of the American dream. Born in Nuevo Laredo, a Mexican border town on a crucial smuggling route, José was one of thirteen children raised by a hardworking ranch hand. He grew up loving the sprawling countryside and its tough, fast quarter horses, but in search of opportunity he crossed the border into Texas to look for work as a bricklayer. He kept his nose clean. He stayed out of trouble. Back in Mexico, José’s younger brother Miguel was leading a different life. While José struggled to make ends meet, Miguel ascended to the top ranks of Los Zetas, a notoriously bloody drug cartel—his crimes had become the stuff of legend and myth on both sides of the border. He was said to have burned rivals alive, murdered Mexican and American law enforcement officers, and launched grenades at a U.S. consulate. José, married with kids and now a U.S. citizen, gave every indication of rejecting his brother’s criminal lifestyle. Then one day he showed up at a quarter-horse auction and bid close to a million dollars for a horse—the largest amount ever paid for a quarter horse at an auction. The humble bricklayer quickly became a major player in the quarter-horse racing scene that thrived in the American Southwest and Mexico. That caught the attention of an eager young FBI agent named Scott Lawson. He enlisted Tyler Graham, an American rancher who would eventually breed José’s champion horse—nicknamed Bones—to help the FBI infiltrate what was revealing itself to be a major money-laundering operation, with the ultimate goal of capturing the infamous Miguel Treviño. Joe Tone’s riveting, exquisitely layered crime narrative, set against the high-stakes world of horse racing, is an intimate story about family, loyalty, and the tragic costs of a failed drug war. Compelling and complex, Bones sheds light on the perilous lives of American ranchers, the morally dubious machinery of drug and border enforcement, and the way greed and fear mingle with race, class, and violence along America’s vast Southwestern border. Praise for Bones “The true-life tale of the Zetas’ foray into quarter horses is masterfully recounted. . . . [a] finely-painted cast of characters . . . Tone weaves the threads together with skillful pacing and sharp prose, marking him as an important new talent in narrative nonfiction. . . . Tone adds some vivid details [and] digs deep into the colorful world of quarter-horse racing.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : William Oliver Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315305976
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Dreams written by William Oliver Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1950, this title includes instances of dreams in published records from both British and American societies of psychical research, covering six decades. This work had been previously inaccessible to the ordinary reader. Other stories have come from friends and acquaintances of the author and in his introduction he states that: ‘the chief purpose of this collection is to present examples of apparently significant dreams, those that "come true", there will be no effort in these pages to debate possible explanations based on known laws, either of chance or of psychology. Readers are able to exercise their own ingenuity to this end. The material is offered here simply as evidence of a striking phenomenon in human consciousness, which, instead of being brushed aside as superstition, calls for serious study. It may have a profound bearing on the riddle of human personality.’

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351595881
Total Pages : 2267 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Sleep and Dreams written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 2267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routledge Library Editions: Sleep and Dreams (9 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1935 and 1988. An eclectic mix, the set looks at sleep and dreams from a number of different perspectives, including philosophy, psychoanalysis and science. It includes a sourcebook, which reviews areas of sleep and dream research, and a dictionary to help people interpret their own dreams.

Author : Ricardo Miguez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144380701X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dreams written by Ricardo Miguez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholars included in this collection sought to indicate more contemporary working definitions for the expression "American Dream", or rather Dreams. The multidisciplinary selections come from many countries and represent scholars from different backgrounds. They reflect the current developments and approaches in the field of US Studies and we hope to help broaden the scope of programs in higher education institutions. The chapters are thematically organized in two sections: “Initial Dialogues” and “Comparative Dialogues.” The first one comprises essays that set the foundations for our discussions and intends to familiarize newcomers with the theme. The second section extends the possibilities of working comparatively with the American Dreams and a number of other interdisciplinary fields of interest for US Studies programs.

Author : Richard Quinney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983517450
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This World of Dreams written by Richard Quinney and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year passes as the author tells the stories that come, as in a dream, of things past, of the ancestors that once lived, and of the wonders of everyday life.

Author : Mary Lucy Story-Maskelyne Arnold-Forster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Dreams written by Mary Lucy Story-Maskelyne Arnold-Forster and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Truett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300135327
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fugitive Landscapes written by Samuel Truett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.–Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona–Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a “wild” frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.–Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.

Author : Ram Narayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream Problem and Its Many Solutions in Search After Ultimate Truth ... written by Ram Narayana and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: