Author: Bárbara Cruz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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This book traces the life of the actor and singer who rose from a working class neighborhood to become a candidate for the office of president of Panama. It explains how Blades has become a political activist, using his influence in the world of films and music to promote his ideals of social justice.

Author: Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692092217
Category : Hurricane Maria, 2017
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuiliding Puerto Rico is an anthology featuring contributions from writers and artists from the comic book industry like Gail Simone [and others] to Puerto Rican and Latinx celebrities like Rosario Dawson [and others]. Produced and also featuring stories written by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, this anthology teams up his original character LA BORINQUENA with some of the most iconic comic book heroes of all time from DC: Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Aquaman, The Flash and many others. Original stories also take us to the past to explore the beautiful history of PUERTO RICO as well as tales that envision a stronger and rebuilt island."--Amazon.com.

Author: Robert Morgalo
Publisher: Morgalo Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780997890105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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This is a David and Goliath story. It's about the fight for justice. It's about false accusations, pride, and respect. It's about betrayal, tragedy, war, struggle, loss, perseverance, honor, and truth. It's about the little guy--the father, husband, the soldier. This story needs to be told. This case was fought in two jurisdictions: the US federal courts and the court of public opinion. In the federal courts, the matter was settled. There remains, however, unfinished business in the court of public opinion. Now is the time for you to decide.

Author: Nahuel Ribke
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137409398
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Exploring the transition of celebrities into institutional-electoral politics, the book argues that many insights developed by genre theorists could be highly instrumental to understand the celebrity politics phenomenon. It analyzes the historical and cultural specificity of celebrity politics as it evolved through different countries and cultures.

Author: Roger Bruns
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1573567965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Latinos have contributed a tremendous amount to American cultural heritage, injecting energy, a unique style, and piquant flavor. This set profiles the big names from this century and the last who represent the highest achievement in their field and who have inspired, led, educated, informed, and entertained us. A diverse representation from the world of sports, entertainment, education, music, journalism, literature, and labor is offered. Biographical essays engagingly tell the story behind the icon, with background including family and education, career trajectory and highlights, and contributions and circumstances that have led to icon status. Along with these famous figures, several essays on other types of Latino pop culture icons—iconic characters from cartoons and comics and film and even iconic Latino foods—are included. Entertaining side bars and classic photos complement the essays. Perfect for student reports and browsing, with more in-depth coverage than an encyclopedia entry but less than a full biography, there is something fascinating and informative here for everyone. Readers will find that that a number of the icons profiled were influenced by other icons profiled or have an important connection to one another. For example, Tito Puente and Celia Cruz performed together for many years. Actress Jennifer Lopez portrayed the singer Selena in a biopic. Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta made the United Farm Workers union a reality. Furthermore, in telling the story of these icons, each essay relates so much of the historical and social issues of the times. Thus, together, these essays offer a good sense of recent Latino and Latin American history and progress. Icons include Desi Arnaz; Ruben Blades; Fabiola Cabeza de Baca; Cesar Chavez; Chiles, Tortillas, and the Mexican Food Explosion; Sandra Cisneros; Roberto Clemente; Celia Cruz; Placido Domingo; Jaime Escalante; Gordo, Speedy Gonzales, Dora the Explorer, Bondo, and La Cucaracha; Dolores Huerta; Jennifer Lopez; Rita Moreno; Edward James Olmos; Tito Puente; Ruben Salazar; Carlos Santana; Cristina Saralegui; Selena; Lee Trevino; Luis Valdez; Ritchie Valens; and Zorro.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Author: Andrés Espinoza Agurto
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954434
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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This volume explores the significations and developments of the Salsa consciente movement, a Latino musico-poetic and political discourse that exploded in the 1970s but then dwindled in momentum into the early 1990s. This movement is largely linked to the development of Nuyolatino popular music brought about in part by the mass Latino migration to New York City beginning in the 1950s and the subsequent social movements that were tied to the shifting political landscapes. Defined by its lyrical content alongside specific sonic markers and political and social issues facing U.S. Latinos and Latin Americans, Salsa consciente evokes the overarching cultural-nationalist idea of Latinidad (Latin-ness). Through the analysis of over 120 different Salsa songs from lyrical and musical perspectives that span a period of over sixty years, the author makes the argument that the urban Latino identity expressed in Salsa consciente was constructed largely from diasporic, deterritorialized, and at times imagined cultural memory, and furthermore proposes that the Latino/Latin American identity is in part based on African and Indigenous experience, especially as it relates to Spanish colonialism. A unique study on the intersection of Salsa and Latino and Latin American identity, this volume will be especially interesting to scholars of ethnic studies and musicology alike.

Author: Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118382153
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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"Experiencias offers carefully sequenced activities, pre-tested in the authors' own classes, that focus on personal interaction and real communication. All face-to-face activities are easily adaptable for digital environments and writing assignments. Recycling Throughout both volumes, Experiencias incorporates activities that recycle previously learned material but with new topics, which allows students to continue mastering vocabulary and structures encountered earlier in the program"--

Author: Susan M. Hassig
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761420286
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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"Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, and landmarks of Vermont"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Lauren Shaw
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739179489
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Song & Social Change in Latin America offers seven essays from a diverse group of scholars on the topic of music as a reflection of the many social-political upheavals throughout Latin America from the 20th century to the present. Topics covered include: the Tropic lia movement in Brazil, the Nueva Canci n in Central America, Rock in Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru, the Vallenato in Colombia, Trova in Cuba, and urban music of Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century. The collection also includes five interviews from prominent and up-and-coming musicians --Ruben Blades, Roy Brown, Habana Abierta, Ana Tijoux, and Mare-- representing a variety of musical genres and political issues in Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Mexico.