Barrio Bodies
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Barrio Bodies
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Author : Daniel Enrique Pérez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Barrio Bodies written by Daniel Enrique Pérez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Gay people in popular culture categories.
Barrio Gangs
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Author : James Diego Vigil
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Barrio Gangs written by James Diego Vigil and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil identifies the elements from which gangs spring: isolation from the dominant culture, poverty, family stress and crowded households, peer pressure, and the adolescent struggle for self-identity. Using interviews with actual gang members, he reveals how the gang often functions as parent, school, and law enforcement in the absence of other role models in the gang members' lives. And he accounts for the longevity of gangs, sometimes over decades, by showing how they offer barrio youth a sense of identity and belonging nowhere else available.
Bodies At War
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Author : Belinda Linn Rincón
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2017-10-31
Bodies At War written by Belinda Linn Rincón and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book examines the rise of neoliberal militarism from the early 1970s to the present and its destructive impact on democratic practices, economic policies, notions of citizenship, race relations, and gender norms by focusing on how these changes affect the Chicana community and cultural production--Provided by publisher.
The Politics Of The Barrios Of Venezuela
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Author : Talton F. Ray
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date :
The Politics Of The Barrios Of Venezuela written by Talton F. Ray and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Barrio Rising
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Author : Alejandro Velasco
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-07-24
Barrio Rising written by Alejandro Velasco and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-24 with History categories.
"In the mid-1950s, in an effort to modernize Venezuela, the military government razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). Over the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, and official neglect, inhabitants of the barrio learned to use their strategic location and symbolic tie to the promise of democracy in order to demand a better life. Granting legitimacy to the state through the vote but protesting its failings with violent street actions when necessary, they laid the foundation for an expansive understanding of democracy--both radical and electoral--whose features still resonate today"--Provided by publisher.
Blood Barrios
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Author : Alberto Arce
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2018-02-15
Blood Barrios written by Alberto Arce and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Winner of the 2018 PEN Translates Award for Non-Fiction Features illustrations by the Honduran artist Germán Andino Welcome to a country that has a higher casualty rate than Iraq. Wander streets considered the deadliest in the world. Wake up each morning to another batch of corpses – sometimes bound, often mutilated – lining the roads; to the screeching blue light of police sirens and the huddles of ‘red journalists’ who make a living chasing after the bloodshed. But Honduras is no warzone. Not officially, anyway. Ignored by the outside world, this Central American country is ravaged by ultra-violent drug cartels and an equally ruthless, militarised law force. Corruption is rife and the justice system is woefully ineffective. Prisons are full to bursting and barrios are flooded with drugs from South America en route to the US. Cursed by geography, the people are trapped here, caught in a system of poverty and cruelty with no means of escape. For many years, award-winning journalist Alberto Arce was the only foreign correspondent in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’s beleaguered capital, and he witnessed first-hand the country’s descent into anarchy. Here, he shares his experiences in a series of gripping and atmospheric dispatches: from earnest conversations with narcos, taxi drivers and soldiers, to exposés of state corruption and harrowing accounts of the aftermath of violence. Provocative, revelatory and at time heart-rending, Blood Barrios shines a light on the suffering and stoicism of the Honduran people, and asks the international community if there is more that they can do.
Walk The Barrio
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Author : Cristina Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2022-06-15
Walk The Barrio written by Cristina Rodriguez and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place. Building on this self-evident premise, Walk the Barrio adds the less obvious claim that to write about place you must experience place. Thus, in this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighborhood streets, talks to immigrants, interviews authors, and puts herself physically in the spaces that she seeks to understand. The word barrio first entered the English lexicon in 1833 and has since become a commonplace not only of American speech but of our literary imagination. Indeed, what draws Rodriguez to the barrios of Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and others is the work of literature that was fueled and inspired by those neighborhoods. Walk the Barrio explores the ways in which authors William Archila, Richard Blanco, Angie Cruz, Junot Díaz, Salvador Plascencia, Héctor Tobar, and Helena María Viramontes use their U.S. hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration. Asking how these writers innovate upon or break the rules of genre to render in words an embodied experience of the barrio, Rodriguez considers, for example, how the spatial map of New Brunswick impacts the mobility of Díaz’s female characters, or how graffiti influences the aesthetics of Viramontes’s novels. By mapping each text’s fictional setting upon the actual spaces it references in what she calls "barriographies," Rodriguez reveals connections between place, narrative form, and migrancy. This first-person, interdisciplinary approach presents an innovative model for literary studies as it sheds important light on the ways in which transnationalism transforms the culture of each Latinx barrio, effecting shifts in gender roles, the construction of the family, definitions of social normativity, and racial, ethnic, national, and linguistic identifications.
Handbook For Barrio Councils
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Author : Antonio M. Martinez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Handbook For Barrio Councils written by Antonio M. Martinez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Local government categories.
Faith In The Barrios
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Author : Rebecca Pierce Bomann
language : en
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Release Date : 1999
Faith In The Barrios written by Rebecca Pierce Bomann and has been published by Lynne Rienner Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Religion categories.
Seeking an understanding of believers' perspectives, evangelical Christian Bomann studied a poor barrio in Colombia as a participant researcher in the mid-1990s, asking why those raised in a Catholic culture convert to a minority religion and how they maintain their faith despite hardships. The author is director of a non-profit organization which mobilizes churches to help the needy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Eduardo Barrios
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Author : Ned J. Davison
language : en
Publisher: Ardent Media
Release Date : 1970
Eduardo Barrios written by Ned J. Davison and has been published by Ardent Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Literary Criticism categories.