George J Sanchez: 3 books

Book cover of Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina
by Amy Koritz, George J Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009

"Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced." ---Sonia BasSheva MaƱjon, Wesleyan University "This...
Book cover of Becoming Mexican American

Becoming Mexican American

Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945

by George J. Sanchez
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1995

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing...
Book cover of From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

by James M Adovasio, Charlotte Beck, Michael Bever
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
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