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The Power of Huacas

Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

By: Claudia Brosseder

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The Power of Huacas

Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru

By: Claudia Brosseder

The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists and the colonial world that unfolded around them, considering how the discourse about religion shifted on both sides of the Spanish and Andean relationship in complex and unexpected ways. In The Power of Huacas, Brosseder examines evidence of transcultural exchange through religious history, anthropology, and cultural studies. Taking Andean religious specialists—or hechizeros (sorcerers) in colonial Spanish terminology—as a starting point, she considers the different ways in which Andeans and Spaniards thought about key cultural and religious concepts. Unlike previous studies, this important book fully outlines both sides of the colonial relationship; Brosseder uses extensive archival research in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, Italy, and the United States, as well as careful analysis of archaeological and art historical objects, to present the Andean religious worldview of the period on equal footing with that of the Spanish. Throughout the colonial period, she argues, Andean religious specialists retained their own unique logic, which encompassed specific ideas about holiness, nature, sickness, and social harmony. The Power of Huacas deepens our understanding of the complexities of assimilation, showing that, within the maelstrom of transcultural exchange in the Spanish Americas, European paradigms ultimately changed more than Andean ones.

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University of Texas Press

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0292756941

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9780292756946

23 European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Prediction of the Full Molecular Weight Distribution in RAFT Polymerization using Probability Generating Functions

By: Cecilia Fortunatti,Claudia Sarmoria,Adriana Brandolin,Mariano Asteasuain

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23 European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Prediction of the Full Molecular Weight Distribution in RAFT Polymerization using Probability Generating Functions

By: Cecilia Fortunatti,Claudia Sarmoria,Adriana Brandolin,Mariano Asteasuain

In this work, a model for the RAFT polymerization was developed in order to obtain the full molecular weight distribution (MWD) using probability generating functions (pgf). For comparison purposes, the population balances were solved by direct integration of the resulting equations. Our results show that the pgf technique allows obtaining an accurate solution while drastically reducing the required computational time.

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0128086424

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9780128086421

Danger Zones

Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture

By: Claudia Schaefer

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Danger Zones

Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture

By: Claudia Schaefer

Homosexuality has appeared as a secondary theme in the fictional works of numerous mainstream writers in contemporary Mexico. Here, the author deals with issues of gender identity when they emerge as metaphorical red flags signaling cultural danger zones along the path to harmonious national discourse. By focusing on the representation of homosexuality in a variety of texts produced between 1964 and 1994, the book also delineates complex relationships within Mexican society. Contents: 1. El diario de José Toledo: The Fantasies of a Middle-Class Bureaucrat 2. The Power of Subversive Imagination: Utopian Discourse in the Novels of Luis Zapata and José Rafael Calva 3. On the Cutting Edge: El jinete azul and the Aesthetics of the Abyss 4. Monobodies, Antibodies, and the Body Politic: Sara Levi Calderón’s Dos mujeres 5. Just Another Material Girl? La hermana secreta de Angélica María and the Seduction of the Popular 6. From "Infernal Realms of Delinquency" to Cozy Cabañas in Cuernavaca: José Joaquín Blanco’s Visions of Homosexuality

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University of Arizona Press

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0816550646

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Students of Revolution

Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua

By: Claudia Rueda

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Students of Revolution

Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua

By: Claudia Rueda

Students played a critical role in the Sandinista struggle in Nicaragua, helping to topple the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979—one of only two successful social revolutions in Cold War Latin America. Debunking misconceptions, Students of Revolution provides new evidence that groups of college and secondary-level students were instrumental in fostering a culture of insurrection—one in which societal groups from elite housewives to rural laborers came to see armed revolution as not only legitimate but necessary. Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Claudia Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gender to craft a heroic identity that justified their political participation and to help build cross-class movements that eventually paralyzed the country. Despite living under a dictatorship that sharply curtailed expression, these students gained status as future national leaders, helping to sanctify their right to protest and generating widespread outrage while they endured the regime’s repression. Students of Revolution thus highlights the aggressive young dissenters who became the vanguard of the opposition.

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University of Texas Press

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1477319301

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Social Urbanism in Latin America

Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion

By: Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling

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Social Urbanism in Latin America

Cases and Instruments of Planning, Land Policy and Financing the City Transformation with Social Inclusion

By: Carlos Leite,Claudia Acosta,Fernanda Militelli,Guillermo Jajamovich,Mariana Wilderom,Nabil Bonduki,Nadia Somekh,Tereza Herling

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public land policy and the innovative urban instruments developed in that region to promote social and territorial inclusion. Critical reflections throughout the pages of this book shed light into the local context of each case-study in order to understand their specific set of challenges and opportunities. Relevant lessons are extracted from the three cities here analyzed, the medium-scale city of Medellin, the large-scale city of Bogota, and the megacity of Sao Paulo, as well as from local innovative experiences in Argentina and Uruguay. These cities underwent promising transformation processes over two decades, applying planning and financing instruments of land policy which have produced significant shifts in the urban development paradigm in the region. The quest for social inclusion has emerged as the common denominator in these cities, awakening growing interest across several fields of urban studies, from public policies and city management to urban law, city financing, urban development, and innovative community participation processes. The book brings implications on urban land policy for transition cities in the Global South. The question of social inclusion in Global South cities is however far from being solved; the analysis presented in this book shows advances and hope, besides a long path still ahead, which can only be faced through a continuous and challenging incremental process. May this book be an incremental step.

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Springer Nature

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3030160122

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9783030160128

Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Trends, Projections, and Policy Options

By: Gregory J. Scott,Mark W. Rosegrant,Claudia Ringler

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Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century

Trends, Projections, and Policy Options

By: Gregory J. Scott,Mark W. Rosegrant,Claudia Ringler

Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896296350

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Havana

A Cultural and Literary Companion

By: Claudia Lightfoot

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Havana

A Cultural and Literary Companion

By: Claudia Lightfoot

An exploration of Havana's history and its paradoxes: a city where architectural treasures survive among the crumbling tenements; where a vibrant street life takes place amidst shortages; and where revolutionary politics, machismo and a thriving black market co-exist.

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Signal Books

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1902669320

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The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

By: Claudia Haake

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The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000

By: Claudia Haake

This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to determine the practical options that each group had in dealing with the states in which they lived. Haake convincingly argues that both nation-states aimed at the destruction of the Native American societies within their borders. This exemplary comparative, transnational study clearly demonstrates that the legacy of these attitudes and policies are readily apparent in both countries today. This book should appeal to a wide variety of academic disciplines in which diversity and minority political representation assume significance.

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Routledge

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1135903166

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Drug Wars

By: Claudia Martin

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Drug Wars

By: Claudia Martin

The violence that surrounds drug dealing and drug trafficking has decimated whole communities, and, in some cases, reshaped daily life in entire countries. This volume takes a closer look at the people affected by the drug trade and the efforts being made to combat it. The book includes firsthand stories, critical thinking questions, and a summative activity, all with the aim of showing the human toll of the drug economy.

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1502632586

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Producing Mayaland

Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism

By: Claudia Fonseca Alfaro

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Producing Mayaland

Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism

By: Claudia Fonseca Alfaro

Critical urban theory and postcolonial approaches are brought together in this compelling book to explore the relationship between colonial legacies, urbanization, and global capitalism in southern Mexico. Investigates the boom-to-bust story of maquiladoras in the state of Yucatán to shed light on how the built environment was shaped by discourse, imaginaries, and everyday practices Examines the infrastructure constructed to support the maquiladora project and traces the attempts of the state to portray Yucatán as an exotic and business-friendly maquiladora paradise Reveals how these practices stand in contrast to the livelihood strategies and life stories of maquiladora workers and residents Draws on a wide range of sources to illustrate a central tension in capitalism: its tendency to homogenize while thriving in differentiation Provides important insights into an understudied location and urges us to understand urbanization in the global South in new ways

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119647401

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9781119647409

Inka Bird Idiom

Amazonian Feathers in the Andes

By: Claudia Brosseder

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Inka Bird Idiom

Amazonian Feathers in the Andes

By: Claudia Brosseder

From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean foothills, and the highlands. She shows how birds and feathers shaped Inka politics, launched wars, and initiated peace. Feathers provided protection against unpredictable enemies, made possible communication with deities, and brought an imagined Inka past into a political present. Richly textured contexts of feathered objects recovered from Late Horizon archaeological records and from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts written by Spanish interlocutors enable new insights into Inka visions of interspecies relationships, an Inka ontology, and Inka views of the place of the human in their ecology. Inka Bird Idiom invites reconsideration of the deep intellectual ties that connected the Amazon and the mountain forests with the Andean highlands and the Pacific coast.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822989654

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9780822989653

Frida Kahlo

A Biography

By: Claudia Schaefer

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Frida Kahlo

A Biography

By: Claudia Schaefer

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 to parents of German and Spanish descent, in Coyoacan, outside Mexico City. After contracting polio at age six, Frida also suffered severe injuries in a bus accident. Her time spent in recovery turned her toward a painting career. These experiences, combined with a difficult marriage to the artist Diego Rivera, generated vibrant works depicting Frida's experiences with pain as well as the symbolism and spirit of Mexican culture. Though she died in 1954, interest in her work continues to grow, with museum exhibitions and publications around the world. This biography will introduce art students and adult readers to one of the Latino culture's most beloved artists. In 2002, the film Frida introduced the artist and her works to a new audience. In 2007, the 100th anniversary of Kahlo's birth, a major exhibition of her work was held at the Museum of the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico. In 2007 through 2008, another major exhibition began its journey to museums throughout the United States.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313349258

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9780313349256

American Rhapsody

Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

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American Rhapsody

Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

By: Claudia Roth Pierpont

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age. Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the dangerous dames of Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled world. The improvisatory jazziness of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its counterpart in the great jazz baby of the New York skyline, the Chrysler Building. Questions of an American acting style are traced from Orson Welles to Marlon Brando, while the new American painting emerges in the gallery of Peggy Guggenheim. And we trace the arc of racial progress from Bert Williams's blackface performances to James Baldwin's warning of the fire next time, however slow and bitter and anguished this progress may be. American Rhapsody offers a history of twentieth-century American invention and genius. It is about the joy and profit of being a heterogeneous people, and the immense difficulty of this human experiment.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374708770

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9780374708771

The Supernatural Sublime

The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain

By: Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández,Claudia Schaefer

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The Supernatural Sublime

The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain

By: Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández,Claudia Schaefer

The Supernatural Sublime explores the long-neglected element of the supernatural in films from Spain and Mexico by focusing on the social and cultural contexts of their production and reception, their adaptations of codes and conventions for characters and plot, and their use of cinematic techniques to create the experience of emotion without explanation. Deploying the overarching concepts of the supernatural and the sublime, Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer detail the dovetailing of the unnatural and the experience of limitlessness associated with the sublime. The Supernatural Sublime embeds the films in the social histories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexico and Spain, both of which made a forced leap into modernity after historical periods founded on official ideologies and circumscribed visions of the nation. Evoking Kant’s definition of the experience of the sublime, Rodríguez-Hernández and Schaefer concentrate on the unrepresentable and the contradictory that oppose purported universal truths and instead offer up illusion, deception, and imagination through cinema, itself a type of illusion: writing with light.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496214242

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9781496214249

HEALTHCARE SETTINGS: SAFETY AND HEALTH FOR PATIENTS AND HEALTH WORKERS

By: Fábio Bitencout,Claudia Miguez

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HEALTHCARE SETTINGS: SAFETY AND HEALTH FOR PATIENTS AND HEALTH WORKERS

By: Fábio Bitencout,Claudia Miguez

This book is an international view of the issues related to the safety and health of which the spaces for the provision of health services have as an intrinsic responsibility. Here we can observe works carried out by representatives of healthcare architecture and engineering from Argentina, Colombia, Italy, Japan, Spain, the United States of America, in addition to important Brazilian authors. Diff erent looks and refl ections on multiple approaches of equally diverse interests of hospitals from all over the world. In this practical and accessible book, we present some contributions concerning the theme of Hospital and Healthcare Environment for Patient and Worker Safety with new contributions to security and risk reduction in healthcare environments.

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Rio Books

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6587913849

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9786587913841

Landscapes of Freedom

Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia

By: Claudia Leal

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Landscapes of Freedom

Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia

By: Claudia Leal

2019 Winner, Colombia Section, Michael Jiménez Prize, Latin American Studies Association After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment—including small strips of fertile soils, mines, forests, rivers, and wetlands—that contributed to their subsistence and allowed them to procure gold, platinum, rubber, and vegetable ivory for export. Afro-Colombian slave labor had produced the largest share of gold in the colony of New Granada. After the abolishment of slavery, some free people left the mining areas and settled elsewhere along the coast, making this the largest area of Latin America in which black people predominate into the present day. However, this economy and society, which lived off the extraction of natural resources, was presided over by a very small white commercial elite living in the region’s ports, where they sought to create an urban environment that would shelter them from the jungle. Landscapes of Freedom reconstructs a nonplantation postemancipation trajectory that sheds light on how environmental conditions and management influenced the experience of freedom. It also points at the problematic associations between autonomy and marginality that have shaped the history of Afro-America. By focusing on racialized landscapes, Leal offers a nuanced and important approach to understanding the history of Latin America.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816538387

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9780816538386

The Solfatara Magmatic-Hydrothermal System

Geochemistry, Geothermometry and Geobarometry of Fumarolic Fluids

By: Luigi Marini,Claudia Principe,Matteo Lelli

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The Solfatara Magmatic-Hydrothermal System

Geochemistry, Geothermometry and Geobarometry of Fumarolic Fluids

By: Luigi Marini,Claudia Principe,Matteo Lelli

This book includes innovative gas-geothermometers and geobarometers, which are urgently needed to estimate the increasingly higher temperatures and pressures present at depth below the Solfatara volcano, owing to its on-going unrest. Therefore, in this book, new gas geoindicators, applicable up to ca. 1000°C and 3 kbar, have been implemented and applied to Solfatara fluids. The innovations of this book include: methane, having a sluggish behavior, was treated separately from fast-reacting carbon monoxide; deviations from the ideal gas behavior were considered; the effects of reaction kinetics were taken into account. This was possible because a dataset including many geochemical parameters and extending from 1983 to 2020 with a good sampling frequency is available for Solfatara, making it a case history probably unique worldwide. Nevertheless, the gas geoindicators described in this book can be applied to other similar systems. Thus, this book is of interest to many scientists studying gas geochemistry, geothermometry, and geobarometry for volcanic surveillance and the mitigation of the volcanic risk.

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Springer Nature

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3030984710

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9783030984717

Latining America

Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies

By: Claudia Milian

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Latining America

Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies

By: Claudia Milian

With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.” Milian’s innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored “Latin” participants––the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American—have ushered in a new world of “Latined” signification from the 1920s to the present. Examining not who but what constitutes the Latino and Latina, Milian’s new critical Latinities disentangle the brown logic that marks “Latino/a” subjects. She expands on and deepens insights in transamerican discourses, narratives of passing, popular culture, and contemporary art. This daring and original project uncovers previously ignored and unremarked upon cultural connections and global crossings whereby African Americans and Latinos traverse and reconfigure their racialized classifications.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820344362

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Border Fictions

Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States

By: Claudia Sadowski-Smith

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Border Fictions

Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States

By: Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies. Border Fictions places into dialogue a variety of hemispheric perspectives from Chicana/o, Asian American, American Indian, Latin American, and Canadian studies. Each chapter examines fiction that ranges widely, from celebrated authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Alberto Ríos to writers whose contributions to border literature have not yet been fully appreciated, including Karen Tei Yamashita, Thomas King, Janette Turner Hospital, and emerging Chicana/o writers of the U.S.-Mexico border. Proposing a diverse and geographically expansive view of border and inter-American studies, Border Fictions links the work of these and numerous other authors to civil rights movements, environmental justice activism, struggles for land and border-crossing rights, as well as to anti-imperialist forms of nationalism in the United States' neighboring countries. The book forces us to take into account the ways in which shifts in the nature of global relations affect literary production, especially in its hemispheric manifestations.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813926785

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9780813926780

Production Processes of Renewable Aviation Fuel

Present Technologies and Future Trends

By: Claudia Gutierrez-Antonio,Araceli Guadalupe Romero-Izquierdo,Fernando Israel Gomez Castro,Salvador Hernández

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Production Processes of Renewable Aviation Fuel

Present Technologies and Future Trends

By: Claudia Gutierrez-Antonio,Araceli Guadalupe Romero-Izquierdo,Fernando Israel Gomez Castro,Salvador Hernández

Production Processes of Renewable Aviation Fuel: Present Technologies and Future Trends presents the available production processes for renewable aviation fuel, including the application of intensification and energy integration strategies. Despite biofuels have gained a lot of interest in the last years, renewable aviation fuel is one of the less studied. In the last ten years, there has been an incredible growth in the number of patents and articles related with its production processes. Several transformation pathways have been proposed, and new ones have been outlined. The book contains the main information about the production processes of renewable aviation fuel, considering international standards, available technologies, and recent scientific contributions. It also outlines the motivation for the development of renewable aviation fuel, and its main processing pathways from the different renewable raw materials. In addition, the application of intensification and energy integration strategies is presented, along with the identified future trends in this area - Includes the motivation for the development of renewable aviation fuel and applicable standards - Describes the processing pathways from biomass to produce renewable aviation fuel - Presents the application of intensification and energy integration strategies for the production of renewable aviation fuel - The future trends in the production processes of renewable aviation fuel are discussed

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0128231718

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Critical Interculturality and Horizontal Methodologies in Latin America

By: Sarah Corona Berkin,Claudia Zapata

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Critical Interculturality and Horizontal Methodologies in Latin America

By: Sarah Corona Berkin,Claudia Zapata

In this edifying volume Sarah Corona and Claudia Zapata extrapolate the causes for the divisions between groups in Latin American society, bringing their years of experience investigating the conditions and consequences of heterogeneity in the region. First, Corona approaches the problem of difference and heterogeneity epistemologically, asking about the possible benefits of horizontal modes of knowledge production between academics and the "social other." She demands reification for those without access to institutions who experience social ills and theorizes a trans-disciplinary dialogue to discover a horizontal construction of knowledge. Zapata evaluates and questions whether indigenous people throughout the continent have had their quality of life improved by the recognition of their collective rights as peoples. These two works provide overviews of a Latin American multiculturalism that connects to parallel movements in North America and Europe. Combined they offer a guide that could be vital to future activism and social work whether in the classroom or on the streets. Critical Interculturality and Horizontal Methodology in Latin America will appeal to scholars and students who are in need of new ways to comprehend the current strain of multiculturalism and plurality. It offers reflections on how social research can be not only sensitive to the epistemologies and interests of the "cultural other," but approach parity and horizontality in dialogue.

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160

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Taylor & Francis

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1000900703

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9781000900705

Los Angeles

20 Weekend Getaways from the Metro Area

By: Eleanor Harris,Claudia Harris Lichtig

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Los Angeles

20 Weekend Getaways from the Metro Area

By: Eleanor Harris,Claudia Harris Lichtig

Escape from Los Angeles for a day or a weekend with these 20 minivacations. Itineraries include chic shopping in La Jolla, an island getaway to Santa Catalina, and sun and snow at Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake. Each escape includes recommended restaurants and accommodations as well as information on special events, attractions, and more.

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Insiders' Guide

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0762734795

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9780762734795

Juárez Girls Rising

Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia

By: Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon

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Juárez Girls Rising

Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia

By: Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon

Working-class girls in Ciudad Juárez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives and realize their aspirations. Juárez native Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon explores the vital role that transformative secondary education can play in promoting self-empowerment and a spirit of resistance to the violence and social injustice these girls encounter. Bringing together the voices of ten female students at Preparatoria Altavista, an innovative urban high school founded in 1968 on social justice principles, Cervantes-Soon offers a nuanced analysis of how students and their teachers together enact a transformative educational philosophy that promotes learning, self-authorship, and hope. Altavista’s curriculum is guided by the concept of autogestión, a holistic and dialectical approach to individual and collective identity formation rooted in the students’ experiences and a critical understanding of their social realities. Through its sensitive ethnography, this book shows how female students actively construct their own meaning of autogestión by making choices that they consider liberating and empowering. Juárez Girls Rising provides an alternative narrative to popular and often simplistic, sensationalizing, and stigmatizing discourses about those living in this urban borderland. By merging the story of Preparatoria Altavista with the voices of its students, this singular book provides a window into the possibilities and complexities of coming of age during a dystopic era in which youth hold on to their critical hope and cultivate their wisdom even as the options for the future appear to crumble before their eyes.

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1452954658

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The Laboratory Zebrafish

By: Claudia Harper,Christian Lawrence

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The Laboratory Zebrafish

By: Claudia Harper,Christian Lawrence

Like other books in the Laboratory Animal Pocket Reference Series, this guide covers all aspects pertaining to the use of these organisms including their basic biology, humane care and management, husbandry, life support systems, regulatory compliance, technical procedures, veterinary care, and water quality management. In the relatively brief span

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1439807442

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The Shape of Power

Stories of Race and American Sculpture

By: Karen Lemmey,Tobias Wofford,Grace Yasumura

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The Shape of Power

Stories of Race and American Sculpture

By: Karen Lemmey,Tobias Wofford,Grace Yasumura

A major new survey of American sculpture, exploring how it both reflects and redefines concepts of race and identity in the United States How does American sculpture intersect with the history of race in the United States? The three-dimensional qualities of sculpture give it a distinct advantage over other art forms in capturing a subject’s likeness, and our minds can swiftly conjure a body and racialize it from the most minimal of prompts. The Shape of Power examines the role of American sculpture, from the nineteenth century to today, in understanding and constructing the concept of race in the United States and how this medium has shaped the way generations have learned to visualize and think about race. Exploring the relationship between sculpture and ideas about race in the United States, this book provides fresh perspectives on artists ranging from Hiram Powers, Edmonia Lewis, and Augusta Savage to Barbara Chase-Riboud, Titus Kaphar, Raven Halfmoon, Sanford Biggers, Betye Saar, Yolanda López, and Simone Leigh. It reveals how sculptors use this versatile medium to challenge discriminatory ideologies and entrenched social and cultural constructions of race while offering bold new visions of community, identity, and selfhood. Featuring superb illustrations of sculptural works in a broad range of media, The Shape of Power contributes new scholarship to the understudied field of American sculpture, which hasn't been the subject of a major publication survey in more than fifty years. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC November 8, 2024–September 14, 2025

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Princeton University Press

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0691261512

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Danger Zones

Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture

By: Claudia Schaefer

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Danger Zones

Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture

By: Claudia Schaefer

Homosexuality has appeared as a secondary theme in the fictional works of numerous mainstream writers in contemporary Mexico. Here, the author deals with issues of gender identity when they emerge as metaphorical red flags signaling cultural danger zones along the path to harmonious national discourse. By focusing on the representation of homosexuality in a variety of texts produced between 1964 and 1994, the book also delineates complex relationships within Mexican society. Contents: 1. El diario de JosŽ Toledo: The Fantasies of a Middle-Class Bureaucrat 2. The Power of Subversive Imagination: Utopian Discourse in the Novels of Luis Zapata and JosŽ Rafael Calva 3. On the Cutting Edge: El jinete azul and the Aesthetics of the Abyss 4. Monobodies, Antibodies, and the Body Politic: Sara Levi Calder—nÕs Dos mujeres 5. Just Another Material Girl? La hermana secreta de AngŽlica Mar’a and the Seduction of the Popular 6. From "Infernal Realms of Delinquency" to Cozy Caba–as in Cuernavaca: JosŽ Joaqu’n BlancoÕs Visions of Homosexuality

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University of Arizona Press

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