La Mexicano

Author : Bill Esparza
Publisher : Prospect Park Books
ISBN 13 : 1945551011
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book L.A. Mexicano written by Bill Esparza and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly photographed and authentically local, LA Mexicano showcases LA’s famously rich and complex Mexican-food culture, including recipes; profiles of chefs, bakers, restaurateurs, and vendors; and neighborhood guides. Part cookbook, part food journalism, and part love song to LA, it's the definitive resource for home cooks, hungry Angelenos, and food-loving visitors. With a foreword by Taco USA's Gustavo Arellano.

Author : Jessica M. Kim
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469651351
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Metropolis written by Jessica M. Kim and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth. Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.

Author : Jon Sack
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168801X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Lucha written by Jon Sack and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A front-line human rights defender fighting murderous impunity in the Mexican borderlands The Mexican border state of Chihuahua and its city Juárez have become notorious the world over as hotbeds of violence. Drug cartel battles and official corruption result in more murders annually in Chihuahua than in wartorn Afghanistan. Thanks to a culture of impunity, 97 percent of the killings in Juárez go unsolved. Despite a climate of fear, a small group of human rights activists, exemplified by the Chihuahua lawyer and organizer Lucha Castro, works to identify the killers and their official enablers. This is the story of La Lucha, illustrated in beautiful and chilling comic book art, rendering in rich detail the stories of families ripped apart by disappearances and murders—especially gender-based violence—and the remarkably brave advocacy, protests, and investigations of ordinary citizens who turned their grief into resistance.

Author : Danny Mena
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847864693
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made in Mexico: The Cookbook written by Danny Mena and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the best restaurants, fondas, loncherías, and taco stands in Mexico City and adapted for the home cook, Made in Mexico is a delicious blend of classic regional and contemporary Mexican cuisine from celebrated chef Danny Mena's hometown. Made in Mexico mixes recipes inspired by Mexico City street food, local eateries, and multi-starred restaurants, combining regional traditions and global trends. In more than one hundred dishes for breakfast, antojitos or snacks, salads and ceviches, main dishes, and desserts, as well as staples such as salsa roja and tortillas, chef Danny Mena shows American home cooks the depth and diversity of true Mexican cooking in the capital city, with explanations for proper technique and suggestions for ingredient variations. Transportive photography from the streets, squares, markets, fondas, and restaurants of Mexico City complements beautifully plated dishes and an alfresco backyard dinner. Each recipe is inspired by a different Mexico City restaurant, giving the book a second life as a delicious image-filled guide to one of the world's hottest culinary destinations. Fascinating sidebars illuminate aspects of Mexican food culture and feature notable locations.

Author : Luis D. León
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520935381
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Llorona's Children written by Luis D. León and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luis D. León's compelling, innovative exploration of religion in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands issues a fundamental challenge to current scholarship in the field and recharts the landscape of Chicano faith. La Llorona's Children constructs genealogies of the major traditions spanning Mexico City, East Los Angeles, and the southwestern United States: Guadalupe devotion, curanderismo, espiritualismo, and evangelical/ Pentecostal traditions. León theorizes a religious poetics that functions as an effective and subversive survival tactic akin to crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. He claims that, when examined in terms of broad categorical religious forms and intentions, these traditions are remarkably alike and resonate religious ideas and practices developed in the ancient Mesoamerican world. León proposes what he calls a borderlands reading of La Virgen de Guadalupe as a transgressive, border-crossing goddess in her own right, a mestiza deity who displaces Jesus and God for believers on both sides of the border. His energetic discussion of curanderismo shows how this indigenous religious practice links cognition and sensation in a fresh and powerful technology of the body—one where sensual, erotic, and sexualized ways of knowing emphasize personal and communal healing. La Llorona’s Children ends with a fascinating study of the rich and complex world of Chicano/a Pentecostalism in Los Angeles, a tradition that León maintains allows Chicano men to reimagine their bodies into a unified social body through ritual performance. Throughout the narrative, the connections among sacred spaces, saints, healers, writers, ideas, and movements are woven with skill, inspiration, and insight.

Author : Himilce Novas
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307800768
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Buena Mesa written by Himilce Novas and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El primer libro de cocina que presenta la gran variedad de platos latinoamericanos tal y como se preparan en los Estados Unidos hoy en dia. Himilce Novas y Rosemary Silva ofrecen 200 deliciosas recetas proveidas por familias norteamericanas con raices mexicanas, puertorriquefias, cubanas, jamaiquinas, brasilenas, argentinas, chilenas, peruanas, colombianas, guatemaltecas, y de casi todos los rincones de America Latina. Sabrosos, vistosos y llenos de sorpresas, los platos "nuevo latinos" son la ultima moda en restaurantes famosos desde Nueva York hasta Los Angeles. Con este libro, lo que parece exotico y dificil de cocinar se convierte en manjares maravillosos que cualquier cocinera o cocinero puede preparar facilmente en casa. -- Para comenzar, las autoras nos ofrecen sopas exquisitas, como la Sopa fria de pimientos colorados y coco, o Sopa de calabaza con aroma de naranja, asi como sabrosisimos antojitos como los Wontons fritos con chorizo, chile y queso Monterey Jack a la Bayamo o Frijoles molidos costarricenses. -- Los platos principales incluyen el Asopao de pollo Piri Thomas y el Pastel de papas celestial, entre otras creaciones fabulosas caseras. -- Entre la gran variedad de platos de arroz con frijoles se destacan El gallo pinto, preparado con arroz y frijoles colorados, igual que el plato jamaiquino Jamaican Coat of Arms (arroz con frijoles colorados). Tambien nos ofrecen una elegante variedad de tamales, empanadas y otros sabrosos rellenos para satisfacer el apetito latino a cualquier hora del dia -- entre ellos, las deliciosas Empanadas de camaron brasileno-americano. Cristina, la anfitriona famosa del Show de Cristina, el congresista Henry B. Gonzalez, entre otras muchas personalidades y extraordinarios cocineros, cantantes famosos, autores, abuelas y jovenes estudiantes, comparten sus recetas favoritas en este libro. De la misma manera, Himilce Novas y Rosemary Silva, las autoras, aportan sus codiciadas recetas familiares, y a la vez cuentan la historia y la preparacion de los chiles frescos y secos, los platanos tropicales, la yuca, el taro y otras frutas y vegetales, y donde conseguirlos aqui en los Estados Unidos. Este es un libro unico que le anade una nueva dimension a la mesa americana.

Author : Alan Weisman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816512317
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Frontera written by Alan Weisman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weisman and Dusard bring alive the people and geography of the U.S.-Mexican border, as well as the issues that divide each nation. 48 black-and-white photographs.

Author : José R. Ralat
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477329366
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Tacos written by José R. Ralat and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition has been lightly updated throughout, but also includes an entirely new chapter on changes that the pandemic brought to the taco landscape"--

Author : Yolanda Alaniz
Publisher : Red Letter Press
ISBN 13 : 9780932323286
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Viva la Raza written by Yolanda Alaniz and published by Red Letter Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of Chicana and Chicano militancy that explores the question of whether this social movement is a racial or a national struggle"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Michal Mochocki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000918076
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games written by Michal Mochocki and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games is a unique edited collection that explores the interplay of heritage, memory, identity and history within postcolonial board games and their surrounding paratexts. It also examines critiques of these games within the gamer communities and beyond. Drawing on a range of international contributions, examples and case studies, this book shows how colonialism-themed games work as representations of the past that are influenced by existing heritage narratives and discourses. It also considers the implications of using colonial histories in games and its impact on its audience, the games’ players. Heritage, Memory and Identity in Postcolonial Board Games will be relevant to scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of game studies, game design or development, heritage studies, postcolonial criticism, media studies, and history. It will also be beneficial to practicing game developers.