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Contradiction and Conflict

The Popular Church in Nicaragua

By: Debra Sabia

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Contradiction and Conflict

The Popular Church in Nicaragua

By: Debra Sabia

Sabia examines the complex interaction of religious belief and political inspiration among internal divisions of Nicaragua's popular church.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817357777

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9780817357771

The American Myth of Democracy

By: Debra Sabia

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The American Myth of Democracy

By: Debra Sabia

A crisis of consciousness takes an elitist approach to the study of American government and politics. It begins with a brief historical introduction to the founding of the Republic, while offering students a glimpse at other comparative political systems, broading their knowledge and thinking. The book aims to provoke students into thinking critically about what they know and to engage in reexaming conventional wisdoms. Including the very definition of American democracy.

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312

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Cognella Academic Publishing

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1621311368

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9781621311362

Enemies and Familiars

Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia

By: Debra Blumenthal

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Enemies and Familiars

Slavery and Mastery in Fifteenth-Century Valencia

By: Debra Blumenthal

A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, Russians, Circassians, and a growing population of black Africans. By the end of the fifteenth century, black Africans comprised as much as 40 percent of the slave population of Valencia. Whereas previous historians of medieval slavery have focused their efforts on defining the legal status of slaves, documenting the vagaries of the Mediterranean slave trade, or examining slavery within the context of Muslim-Christian relations, Debra Blumenthal explores the social and human dimensions of slavery in this religiously and ethnically pluralistic society. Enemies and Familiars traces the varied experiences of Muslim, Eastern, and black African slaves from capture to freedom. After describing how men, women, and children were enslaved and brought to the Valencian marketplace, this book examines the substance of slaves' daily lives: how they were sold and who bought them; the positions ascribed to them within the household hierarchy; the sorts of labor they performed; and the ways in which some reclaimed their freedom. Scrutinizing a wide array of archival sources (including wills, contracts, as well as hundreds of civil and criminal court cases), Blumenthal investigates what it meant to be a slave and what it meant to be a master at a critical moment of transition. Arguing that the dynamics of the master-slave relationship both reflected and determined contemporary opinions regarding religious, ethnic, and gender differences, Blumenthal's close study of the day-to-day interactions between masters and their slaves not only reveals that slavery played a central role in identity formation in late medieval Iberia but also offers clues to the development of "racialized" slavery in the early modern Atlantic world.

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327

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Cornell University Press

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0801463688

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9780801463686

Redreaming America

Toward a Bilingual American Culture

By: Debra A. Castillo

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Redreaming America

Toward a Bilingual American Culture

By: Debra A. Castillo

What would American literature look like in languages other than English, and what would Latin American literature look like if we understood the United States to be a Latin American country and took seriously the work by U.S. Latinos/as in Spanish? Debra A. Castillo explores these questions by highlighting the contributions of Latinos/as writing in Spanish and Spanglish. Beginning with the anonymously published 1826 novel Jicoténcal and ending with fiction published at the turn of the twenty-first century, the book details both the characters' and authors' struggles with how to define an American self. Writers from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Mexico are featured prominently, alongside a sampling of those writers from other Latin American heritages (Peru, Colombia, Chile). Castillo concludes by offering some thoughts on U.S. curricular practice.

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241

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State University of New York Press

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0791484017

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9780791484012

Easy Women

Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

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Easy Women

Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction

By: Debra A. Castillo

Addresses the topic of prostitution and "easy women" in Mexican literature. The figure of the prostitute or sexually liberated woman not only permeates Mexican folk songs and popular movies but stands at the crossroads of its national literary culture. In Easy Women, Debra A. Castillo focuses on the prostitute, or the woman perceived as such, in order to ask why this character exerts such a hold on the Mexican imagination. Combining early twentieth-century novels, current best-selling pulp fiction, and testimonial narratives, Castillo explores how Mexican writers have positioned the "easy woman" in their works. In each example the transgressive woman -- marked by an active sexuality -- serves a crucial narrative function, one that both promotes and challenges myths about women on the continuum of sexual promiscuity. Ending with a discussion based on a series of in-depth interviews with sex workers in Tijuana, Castillo highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these women's professional and personal lives. Bridging Latin American literary and cultural criticism, gender studies, and studies of Mexican society, Easy Women provides a sophisticated and groundbreaking examination of the place of the sexually liberated woman in contemporary Mexican culture.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816631131

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9780816631131

The Red Camp

By: Debra Diaz

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The Red Camp

By: Debra Diaz

From barrios and labor camps spring life and inspiration. The Red Camp weaves a deeply humane and moving tapestry of coming of age and of the mundane and ugly transformed into the beauty of feminine self-discovery. Amid the poverty, exploitation and discrimination, families set down roots, send children to school and raise them to become better ñAmericans,î all in the hopes of providing a better life. Evoking a location at the margins of both established society and our imagination, the Red Camponce a labor camp, then a shanty town for migrant workers, and finally a barriois to Latino immigrants and laborers what New York tenements were to earlier generations. Debra Diaz has poetically recreated for us the life of one family struggling under the red roof of its shanty. The women of the Cruz family spin mesmerizing tales of hope, life, and inspiration. They describe the exquisite tension of male-female relationships, the sweet discovery of love, the high expectations and bitter disillusionment that husbands, wives, parents and children bear for each other, and the difficulties of life among a group of people caught between two cultures. In this richly textured and enchanting narrative, the voices of the Cruz family join in chorus to remember their trials and triumphs in the Red Camp. Hear the passionate music of an anniversary waltz, the haunting tale of a lost soul who murders her children and the call to a better life which in the end may not be as good as the family life shared in the Red Camp.

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Arte Publico Press

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1611922704

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9781611922707

Race Mixture in Nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

By: Debra J. Rosenthal

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Race Mixture in Nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

By: Debra J. Rosenthal

Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807855642

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9780807855645

Mixing Race, Mixing Culture

Inter-American Literary Dialogues

By: Monika Kaup,Debra Rosenthal

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Mixing Race, Mixing Culture

Inter-American Literary Dialogues

By: Monika Kaup,Debra Rosenthal

Over the last five centuries, the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly, the issue of miscegenation, with its attendant fears and hopes, has been a pervasive theme in New World literature, as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion. This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. From various angles, they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere, with a common history of colonialism, slavery, racism, and racial and cultural hybridity.

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University of Texas Press

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0292743483

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9780292743489

Contradiction and Conflict

The Popular Church in Nicaragua

By: Debra Sabia

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Contradiction and Conflict

The Popular Church in Nicaragua

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Sabia examines the complex interaction of religious belief and political inspiration among internal divisions of Nicaragua's popular church.

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University of Alabama Press

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God-Sized Dreams

The Story of a Little Black Girl from the South Side of Chicago

By: Debra Williamson

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God-Sized Dreams

The Story of a Little Black Girl from the South Side of Chicago

By: Debra Williamson

God-Sized Dreams: The Story Of A Little Black Girl From The South Side Of Chicago, tells the story of a highly sensitive little black girl who from a young age, felt insecure in her own skin and struggled with low self-esteem and low self-worth for most of her life. With a front row seat, she witnessed the crumbling and eventual demise of her parents' marriage and loss of their familial identity. During those years, she felt like an island and was plagued with a dark, mysterious unhappiness. In a desperate attempt to counter these negative feelings, the author charted a course to live her dreams, ' or so she thought. She sought the approval of men, and when it was not provided she felt like a failure. This book chronicles how the author navigated through the storms of her life. Believing she had it all worked out, operating in her own strength, she learned after many trials and setbacks that perhaps she was not actually living her dream.' When she accepted that God had a dream much bigger than she could ever imagine, miraculous things began to unfold in her life. God-Sized Dreams will encourage you if you see yourself as a failure in life or love. This book is for you if you feel that you are not worthy of the love of a godly man, not a good man, but a godly man. If you've ever struggled with your identity in Christ, God-Sized Dreams will show you that God is a dreamer! God sees your identity in Christ. God is bigger than your dreams! God wants you to believe for the IMPOSSIBLE! If you are living a life of pain and discouragement, let God shape your dreams!

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0999043137

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9780999043134

Soul-Hearted Living

A Year of Sacred Reflections & Affirmations for Women

By: Debra L Reble

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Soul-Hearted Living

A Year of Sacred Reflections & Affirmations for Women

By: Debra L Reble

As women, we can all use a daily touchstone to support us in staying connected to our heart wisdom, remind us of our truth, and align us with our Divine purpose, and Soul-Hearted Living is that touchstone. This uplifting 365-day book invites you to embrace your courageous heart and tap into the wisdom of your soul-one day at a time.

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1732742529

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Book's by Debra Sabia

Contradiction and Conflict

Contradiction and Conflict

The American Myth of Democracy

The American Myth of Democracy

Enemies and Familiars

Enemies and Familiars

Redreaming America

Redreaming America

Easy Women

Easy Women

The Red Camp

The Red Camp

Race Mixture in Nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

Race Mixture in Nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

Mixing Race, Mixing Culture

Mixing Race, Mixing Culture

Contradiction and Conflict

Contradiction and Conflict

God-Sized Dreams

God-Sized Dreams

Soul-Hearted Living

Soul-Hearted Living

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