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Stranger
The Challenge of a Latino Immigrant in the Trump Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
“There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many. But...
by Bartolome de las Casas
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolome de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.
Bartolome...
by Marco Rubio
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Pocos políticos han alcanzado una preeminencia a nivel nacional tan rápidamente como Marco Rubio. Esta es la historia de su ascenso inesperado.
Una vez que Fidel Castro y su comunismo se tomaron el poder, Mario y Oria Rubio jamás pudieron regresar a su tierra natal. Pero adoptaron su nuevo país...
A Sense of Belonging
From Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, One Man's Pursuit of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
The swift and improbable rise of Mel Martinez to the top echelon of America’s government began not with a political race but with a burst of gunfire. In April 1958, an eleven-year-old Martinez huddled on his bedroom floor while Cuban soldiers opened fire on insurgents outside his family’s home...
Breaking In
The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
"I knew she'd be trouble."
So quipped Antonin Scalia about Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court's annual end-of-term party in 2010. It's usually the sort of event one would expect from such a grand institution, with gentle parodies of the justices performed by their law clerks, but...
Japanese Mind
Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture.
Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored: aimai (ambiguity), amae (dependence upon others'...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Intra-Asian trade is a major theme of recent writing on Asian economic history. From the second half of the nineteenth century, intra-Asian trade flows linked Asia into an integrated economic system, with reciprocal benefits for all participants. But although this was a network from which all gained,...
Human Resource Management in China
New Trends and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The approach to managing human resources has changed significantly in China over the last twenty-five years as its transformation from a state planned economy to a market-oriented economy continues. By adopting a broad notion of HRM, while remaining sympathetic to the strong emphasis on relationship...
Introducing Cultural Studies
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social and gender identities. "Introducing Cultural...
Charlie Chan Is Dead 2
At Home in the World (An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction-- Revised and Updated)
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
More than a decade after its initial publication, the groundbreaking anthology Charlie Chan Is Dead remains the best available source for contemporary Asian American fiction. Edited by acclaimed novelist and National Book Award nominee Jessica Hagedorn, Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World...
A Good Time for the Truth
Race in Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being's inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring...
Curry
Eating, Reading, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do.
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations.By...
The Difference Aesthetics Makes
On the Humanities “After Man”
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illiberal humanism” instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing...
by Roberto Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD
"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."
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