Remembering Mameyes
Remembering Mameyes

Author: Juan José Nolla-Acosta

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0359394302

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On October 7th, 1985, the Mameyes community became known to Puerto Rico and the world. A massive landslide destroyed a large portion of it and buried alive a large number of its residents. As a remembrance the government built a monument but it has been abandoned, vandalized and profaned despite the fact that the whole area is the final resting place of those whose bodies couldn't be recovered. What was Mameyes? How did the residents live? How did this tragedy happen? Why did it happen? These questions and others will be answered and we will remember the people who lived in Mameyes. This book seeks to bring attention towards a community that was an important part of life in the city of Ponce, so future generations know about Mameyes and that it is not forgotten.

ReMembering Cuba
ReMembering Cuba

Author: Andrea O’Reilly Herrera

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2001-06-15

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780292731479

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One hundred testimonies on the Cuban diaspora are gathered together from narratives, interviews, creative writing, letters, journal entries, photographs, and paintings to capture the strong emotions surrounding this ongoing ordeal. Simultaneous.

Culture and Power in the Classroom
Culture and Power in the Classroom

Author: Antonia Darder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-03

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1317261747

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This is a timely second edition of the enormously significant book which changed how teachers and community activists view their own practice. This edition concludes with personal essays by teachers, professors, and community activists explaining the direct impact which Culture and Power in the Classroom has had on their lives. Unlike many texts that discuss educational failure, this book provides a historical context for understanding underachievement in our nation. Thoroughly revised to include the new thinking on diversity and learning, this edition includes a new chapter on assessment and the brain. This second edition will be welcomed by previous and new readers alike, and will help influence the approach of a new generation of teachers, whether they are based in schools, colleges or community centres.

A BOUQUET OF MEMORIES FOR AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER
A BOUQUET OF MEMORIES FOR AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER

Author: Gisela Norat

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2023-05-30

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1685703690

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In this memoir, childhood recollections become the springboard for depicting the challenges of a Latina, an immigrant, and a bicultural mother in the United States. The vignettes of life under communist rule in her native Cuba help readers glean a harsh contrast with the civil liberties Americans enjoy. Infused with humor and candid introspection, the writing tackles the pitfalls, the contradictions, and the cultural scrimmages that emerge after marriage to an Anglo man and during the upbringing of their bicultural daughter. When her enthusiasm for Spanish language immersion at home meets with the child's resistance, the author is forced to question the visceral attachment she feels for her birth language. Stumbling through motherhood, she ponders how to live an authentic sense of self while mothering in English. She resolves not to push the daughter to speak Spanish and risk damaging their mother-daughter bond. Instead, the author begins to write and crafts this family legacy as an invitation for her daughter to embrace her Cuban-Spanish lineage. This Latina mother's journey of self-reflection dredges memories of her birthplace, family, exile, cultural adaptation, and social integration. Through the narrative lens of a child, refugee, daughter, wife, mother, professor, and an acculturated Cuban American, the author depicts the culture-clashing complexities of her biculturalism. It is while examining the precariousness of family relationships that the author arrives at a deeper understanding of the nuances of ethnic identity. Through this writing, she achieves a genuine embrace of the extraordinary adoptive country that irrevocably ties her to her beloved American daughter. May you, reader, be inspired to collect and stitch for posterity your tapestry of family stories.

The Antonia Darder Reader
The Antonia Darder Reader

Author: Antonia Darder

Publisher: Myers Education Press

Published: 2023-08-23

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1975505174

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2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner Antonia Darder is a Puerto Rican and American scholar, artist, poet, song writer and activist. She holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership in the School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Her scholarship is known around the world and her efforts have earned her a large number of academic awards, including the Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award by the American Education Research Association. Three critical Darderean scholars (Kortney Hernandez, Sharon Cronin, and Eduardo Lopez), who have been lovingly mentored, empowered, and challenged by Darder, and who have developed their critical consciousness through the soulful educational wisdom of Darder, have come together to embrace the (im)possible task of curating a volume of some of her most powerful educational scholarship. This volume includes Antonia Darder’s central writings on the topics of language, culture, inequality, and education. If one were to “read” Darder, as Paulo Freire encouraged us to “read the word and the world,” her works would speak volumes of her unwavering commitment to the struggle for liberation and an emancipatory vision of the world. This is embodied in all aspects of her work as the range of her scholarship spans across mediums and decades. The Antonia Darder Reader is essential reading as a keystone volume in multiculturalism, critical studies, cultural studies, and many other disciplines. Perfect for courses such as: Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; History and Philosophy of Education; Teacher Education; Bilingual Education; Latinx and Education Studies; Critical Pedagogy; Critical Theory, Race and Education; Sociology of Education; Culturally Responsive Teaching; Social Justice and Research; Methodology

The Shattered City
The Shattered City

Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts

Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts

Published: 2019-02-13

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 0648329143

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The compelling second novel of the Creature Court gaslamp fantasy trilogy. Daylight and nox collide as Ashiol and Velody’s uneasy alliance fractures. The Creature Court try to fight the war with theatre instead of bloodshed… but they still have to deliver a sacrifice. Will Delphine and Rhian escape the dangers of Velody’s new world, or be consumed by them? If you enjoy intrigue, devastating plot twists and sumptuous detail, you’ll adore this fantasy trilogy inspired by the 1920s. Immerse yourself in the glamorous, dangerous world of the Creature Court.

The Creature Court Trilogy
The Creature Court Trilogy

Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts

Publisher: Tansy Rayner Roberts

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages: 1425

ISBN-13: 064889830X

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Garnet ruined both of their lives. He stole Velody’s memories, and he broke Ashiol’s heart. Now Velody and Ashiol have been left behind, to rule over a gang of shapechanging, glamorous monsters. Only one of them can be Power and Majesty of the Creature Court... or die trying. If you enjoy intrigue, devastating plot twists and sumptuous detail, you’ll adore this dark gaslamp fantasy trilogy inspired by the Roaring Twenties. Immerse yourself in the glamorous, dangerous world of the Creature Court. This digital box set includes the complete trilogy: #1 Power and Majesty #2 The Shattered City #3 Reign of Beasts.

K'Oben
K'Oben

Author: Amber M. O'Connor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1442255269

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K’Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today’s culinary tourism in the area. It focuses not only on what was eaten and how it was cooked, but the people involved: who grew or sourced the foods, who cooked them, who ate them. Additionally, the authors examine how Maya foodways and the people involved fit into the social system, particularly in how food is incorporated into culture, economy, and society. The authors provide a detailed literature review of hard-to-find sources including: out of print centuries old cookbooks, archaeological field notes, ethnographies and ethnohistories out of circulation and not available in English, thesis documents only available in Spanish and in university archives as well as current field research on the Maya. The more recent Maya foodways can be studied from cookbooks, ethnographies and ethnohistorical documentation. Between the two of us, we have assembled a small but representative collection of cookbooks, some self-published and rare, that were available in Merida and elsewhere in Mexico during the late 20th century. Some are quite old, and all reflect local traditional foodways. Geographically, the book concentrates on Yucatan, Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, but will include Pre-Classic and Classic evidence from Guatemala and El Salvador, whose foodways are influenced by Maya traditions.

The Occupation of Havana
The Occupation of Havana

Author: Elena A. Schneider

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-10-29

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 146964536X

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In 1762, British forces mobilized more than 230 ships and 26,000 soldiers, sailors, and enslaved Africans to attack Havana, one of the wealthiest and most populous ports in the Americas. They met fierce resistance. Spanish soldiers and local militias in Cuba, along with enslaved Africans who were promised freedom, held off the enemy for six suspenseful weeks. In the end, the British prevailed, but more lives were lost in the invasion and subsequent eleven-month British occupation of Havana than during the entire Seven Years' War in North America. The Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba's return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions.