Growing Up In La Colonia Boomer Memories From Oxnards Barrio

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 : 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 : Margo Donohue
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467146765
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Filmed in Brooklyn written by Margo Donohue and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties." -Freddie Prinze, Jr. Discover the iconic films, legendary personalities and the locations for timeless big screen moments that took place in Brooklyn. From Saturday Night Fever to numerous Spike Lee Joints, readers can learn about Brooklyn's cinematic past or discover locations to visit today.

Author : Valerie Padilla Carroll
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496215001
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( 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 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie Padilla Carroll examines texts that promote self-sufficiency as the solution to the possible disintegration of modern life.

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 : Jeannette Armstrong
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551112000
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native Poetry in Canada written by Jeannette Armstrong and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Poetry in Canada: A Contemporary Anthology is the only collection of its kind. It brings together the poetry of many authors whose work has not previously been published in book form alongside that of critically-acclaimed poets, thus offering a record of Native cultural revival as it emerged through poetry from the 1960s to the present. The poets included here adapt English oratory and, above all, a sense of play. Native Poetry in Canada suggests both a history of struggle to be heard and the wealth of Native cultures in Canada today.

Author : Martín Alberto Gonzalez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692980453
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21 Miles of Scenic Beauty ... and Then Oxnard written by Martín Alberto Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its wonderful everyday weather and beautiful surf-ridden beaches, Oxnard, California, has a reputation of being dangerous and demoralizing due to its gang presence. In this book, Mart�n Alberto Gonzalez takes this reputation head on through a series of social justice-oriented stories loosely based on his experiences and observations growing up in Oxnard as a first-generation Xicano. Rather than focusing on everything that deems the city bad, such as its overabundance of undereducated Brown people, Mart�n flips the script through counterstorytelling and testimonies in order to shed light on various injustices directly impacting his community, such as inequitable schooling practices, segregation, gentrification, and many more.

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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memlinc written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307764230
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Wakes written by Nicholas D. Kristof and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky. "Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. China Wakes is filled with anecdote, detail, and analysis of the highest order.... This book demands reading, and yet it is a pleasure as well as an education." —David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker Featuring 16 pages of photos