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"Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence,...
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c2009
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In the small town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, field hand Pete Hern©Øandez killed a tenant farmer after exchanging words in a cantina. From this murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would change the lives and legal standing of ten of millions of Americans. Tells the story of an underdog band of Mexican American lawyers who took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, where they challenged Jim Crow-style discriminiation against Mexican...
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©2006
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Collects columns written by Enriqueta Vásquez from 1968 to 1972 for the Chicano newspaper "El Grito del Norte," in which she tries to provoke her fellow Chicanos to action by writing about racism, sexism, imperialism, and poverty. Includes photographs, notes, and introductions.
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[2016]
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Anthologized, historical perspective of actions of the Chicano Movement in Pueblo, Colorado --
El Movimiento is a march through the changing times of the early 1970s in Pueblo, Colorado. Pueblo was in a strategic location in the state and hosted national speakers and conferences. War on Poverty monies from the Johnson administration poured in creating opportunities for changes in education, health, housing. Returning Vietnam veterans raised their...
11) Latin music USA
Pub. Date
c2009
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"'Latin music USA' highlights the great American music created by Latinos, and celebrates the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. It's a fresh take on American musical history, reaching across five decades to portray the rich mix of sounds created by Latinos and embraced by all." -- Container.
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"The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote a chapter at best to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas." "500 Years of Chicana Women's History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The...
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[2022]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"How do you make a lowrider bounce? Spark early readers' natural curiosity about cool rides with this inquiry-based nonfiction approach to lowriders. Lowriding means riding low and slow in a mobile work of art. Popularized in the 1940s by Mexican Americans in California, lowriding became a way to show pride in Chicano culture. Later, added hydraulic suspensions let the cars move up and down as if they were dancing. Appeal to budding car lovers with...
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[2013]
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Over time, sexuality in America has changed dramatically. Frequently redefined and often subject to different systems of regulation, it has been used as a means of control; it has been a way to understand ourselves and others; and it has been at the center of fierce political storms, including some of the most crucial changes in civil rights in the last decade. Edited by Thomas A. Foster, Documenting Intimate Matters features seventy-two documents...
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