Escape From El Monte
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Escape From El Monte
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Author : Benita Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2004-09
Escape From El Monte written by Benita Bishop and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A story about an 18 year young teen girl in the 70's, making life decisions, growing up, learning important lessons and dealing with heartbreak. She falls into the Disco and Punk scene, but still clings to her earthy love of hiking and backpacking. There are boyfriends who constantly let her down, but her Springer Spaniel, Rex, teaches her the importance of loyalty and trust. Finally, after many disappointments, a backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon, reveals to her a different view on life. She is finally able to accept her life in contentment.
Lost Girl From El Monte
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Author : Benita Bishop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-07-03
Lost Girl From El Monte written by Benita Bishop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A teenage girls diary from 1975 to 1976 revealing bad decisions, first love, heartbreat, rivalry and unexpected peril.
Hitchhiking Guide To El Monte
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Author : Benita Bishop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-05
Hitchhiking Guide To El Monte written by Benita Bishop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05 with categories.
Ride along in the 70's era with an 18 year old College bound California Girl as she discovers the humorous side of School, Hiking, Surfing, Disco dancing and even Love and heartbreak. Updated version of Escape From El Monte with added bonus chapters, character quotes, larger print and more!
El Monte
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Author : Lydia Cabrera
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-24
El Monte written by Lydia Cabrera and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-24 with Social Science categories.
First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature, and botany to provide a panoramic account of the multifaceted influence of Afro-Atlantic cultures in Cuba. Cabrera details the natural and spiritual landscape of the Cuban monte (forest, wilderness) and discusses hundreds of herbs and the constellations of deities, sacred rites, and knowledge that envelop them. The result is a complex spiritual and medicinal architecture of Afro-Cuban cultures. This new edition of what is often referred to as “the Santería bible” includes a new foreword, introduction, and translator notes. As a seminal work in the study of the African diaspora that has profoundly impacted numerous fields, Cabrera’s magnum opus is essential for scholars, activists, and religious devotees of Afro-Cuban traditions alike.
California A Slave State
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Author : Jean Pfaelzer
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-27
California A Slave State written by Jean Pfaelzer and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-27 with History categories.
The untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and convict laborers to victims of modern trafficking “A searing survey of ‘250 years of human bondage’ in what is now the state of California. . . . Readers will be outraged.”—Publishers Weekly California owes its origins and sunny prosperity to slavery. Spanish invaders captured Indigenous people to build the chain of Catholic missions. Russian otter hunters shipped Alaska Natives—the first slaves transported into California—and launched a Pacific slave triangle to China. Plantation slaves were marched across the plains for the Gold Rush. San Quentin Prison incubated California’s carceral state. Kidnapped Chinese girls were sold in caged brothels in early San Francisco. Indian boarding schools supplied new farms and hotels with unfree child workers. By looking west to California, Jean Pfaelzer upends our understanding of slavery as a North-South struggle and reveals how the enslaved in California fought, fled, and resisted human bondage. In unyielding research and vivid interviews, Pfaelzer exposes how California gorged on slavery, an appetite that persists today in a global trade in human beings lured by promises of jobs but who instead are imprisoned in sweatshops and remote marijuana grows, or sold as nannies and sex workers. Slavery shreds California’s utopian brand, rewrites our understanding of the West, and redefines America’s uneasy paths to freedom.
Lynching In The West 1850 1935
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Author : Ken Gonzales-Day
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2006
Lynching In The West 1850 1935 written by Ken Gonzales-Day and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This visual and textual study of lynchings that took place in California between 1850 and 1935 shows that race-based lynching in the United States reached far beyond the South.
For All Of Humanity
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Author : Martha Few
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2015-10-22
For All Of Humanity written by Martha Few 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 2015-10-22 with History categories.
Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to apply medical innovations to cure and prevent disease. Their efforts included the first inoculations and vaccinations against smallpox, new strategies to protect families and communities from typhus and measles, and medical interventions into pregnancy and childbirth. For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Martha Few pays close attention to Indigenous Mesoamerican medical cultures, which not only influenced the shape and scope of those regional campaigns but also affected the broader New World medical cultures. The author reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease. Few’s analysis weaves medical history and ethnohistory with social, cultural, and intellectual history. She uses prescriptive texts, medical correspondence, and legal documents to provide rich ethnographic descriptions of Mesoamerican medical cultures, their practitioners, and regional pharmacopeia that came into contact with colonial medicine, at times violently, during public health campaigns.
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.
The Land Of Sunshine
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Author : Charles Fletcher Lummis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Land Of Sunshine written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with California categories.
Out West
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Out West written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Pacific States categories.
Contains monthly column of the Sequoya League.