Growing Up In La Colonia

Author : Margo Porras & Sandra Porras
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714181X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer memories from Oxnard’s barrio written by Margo Porras & Sandra Porras and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running. In decades past, milpas of corn and squash grew in tiny front yards, kids played in the alleys and neighbors ran tortillerias out of their homes. Back then, it was the place to get the best raspadas on Earth. It was a home to Cesar Chavez and a campaign stop for presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. As one Colonia native put it, "We may not have had what the other kids had, but we were just as rich." Through the voices of the people, the authors share the challenges and triumphs of growing up in this treasured place.

Author : Margo Porras
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439667306
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in La Colonia written by Margo Porras and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running. In decades past, milpas of corn and squash grew in tiny front yards, kids played in the alleys and neighbors ran tortillerias out of their homes. Back then, it was the place to get the best raspadas on Earth. It was a home to Cesar Chavez and a campaign stop for presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. As one Colonia native put it, "We may not have had what the other kids had, but we were just as rich." Through the voices of the people, the authors share the challenges and triumphs of growing up in this treasured place.

Author : Marco Ramírez Rojas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666916889
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing up in Latin America written by Marco Ramírez Rojas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.

Author : Cristina Herrera
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082299142X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to Oxnard written by Cristina Herrera and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michele Serros (1966–2015) is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard. Despite her status as a major figure in Chicanx literature, no scholar has written a book-length examination of her body of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—until now. Cristina Herrera, also from Oxnard, weaves in history, autoethnography, and literary analysis to explore Chicana adolescence and young womanhood with a focus on place-making. Factoring in location, region, and landscape, Herrera asks what it means to grow up Chicana in settings that carry centuries of colonial violence, segregation, and everyday racism against Mexican American communities. She contends that Serros used her hometown to broaden understandings of who and what constitutes Chicanx communities and identities. By reading Serros’s work in tandem with her lived experience in the same setting, Herrera uncovers moments of adolescent subjectivity that could only be vocalized and constructed within this particular locale. Herrera pushes against the tendency to separate the author from the text and argues for a spatial understanding of Chicana adolescence, race, class, and young womanhood.

Author : Nasario García
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896724280
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pláticas written by Nasario García and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nasario Garcia's interviews elicit candid commentary and spontaneous responses that reveal much about life experiences, the creative process, and the unique role that culture, tradition, and geography play in the literature that these writers have produced.".

Author : Edith Hope Fine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620141656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armando and the Blue Tarp School written by Edith Hope Fine and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young Mexican boy living in a colonia (trash dump community) who takes the first steps toward realizing his dream of getting an education.

Author : Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738529301
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxnard written by Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains black-and-white, captioned photographs that document the history of Oxnard, California, from 1867 to 1940.

Author : Valerie Padilla Carroll
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233263
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land? written by Valerie Padilla Carroll and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land?​, Valerie Padilla Carroll examines a variety of media from the last century that proselytized self-sufficiency as a solution to the economic instability, environmental destruction, and perceived disintegration of modern America. In the early twentieth century, books already advocated an escape for the urban, white-collar male. The suggestion became more practical during the Great Depression, and magazines pushed self-sufficiency lifestyles. By the 1970s, the idea was reborn in newsletters and other media as a radical response to a damaged world, allowing activists to promote the simple life as environmental, gender, and queer justice. At the century’s end, a great variety of media promoted self-sufficiency as the solution to a different set of problems, from survival at the millennium to wanderlust of millennials. ​ Nevertheless, these utopian narratives are written overwhelmingly for a particular audience—one that is white, male, and white-collar. Padilla Carroll’s archival research of the books, newspapers, magazines, newsletters, websites, blogs, and videos promoting the life of the agrarian smallholder illuminates how embedded race, class, gender, and heteronormative dogmas in these texts reinforce dominant power ideologies and ignore the experiences of marginalized people. Still, Padilla Carroll also highlights how those left out have continued to demand inclusion by telling their own stories of self-sufficiency, rewriting and reimagining the movement to be collaborative, inclusive, and rooted in both human and ecological justice.

Author : Frank P. Barajas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496230345
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curious Unions written by Frank P. Barajas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: César E. Chávez came to Oxnard, California, in 1958, twenty years after he lived briefly in the city as a child with his migrant farmworker family during the Great Depression. This time Chávez returned as the organizer of the Community Service Organization to support the unionization campaign of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. Together the two groups challenged the agricultural industry's use of braceros (imported contract laborers) who displaced resident farmworkers. The Mexican and Mexican American populations in Oxnard were involved in cultural struggles and negotiations long before Chávez led them in marches and active protests. Curious Unions explores the ways in which the Mexican community forged intriguing partnerships with other ethnic groups within Oxnard in the first half of the twentieth century and the resulting economic exchanges, cultural practices, and labor and community activism. Frank P. Barajas examines how the Oxnard ethnic Mexican population exercised its agency in alliance with other groups and organizations to meet their needs before large-scale protests and labor unions were engaged. Curious Unions charts how the cultural negotiations that took place in the Oxnard ethnic Mexican community helped shape and empower farm labor organizing.

Author : Autumn Leigh
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433988089
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Penguin Colony / Una colonia de Pingüinos written by Autumn Leigh and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Southern Hemisphere is bitterly cold for most penguins, but they don’t seem to mind. Most penguins live in large colonies on the coast of Antarctica or on nearby islands. English language learners explore penguin colonies for themselves, learning fun facts about these beautiful birds with the help of bilingual text. Readers learn how penguin families work together to feed their young and keep them warm. A helpful graphic organizer aids in reader understanding. Readers will enjoy detailed images of penguin species at home in the Antarctic with every turn of the page.