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Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Mapping a Chicano/a Art History

By: Ella Maria Diaz

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Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Mapping a Chicano/a Art History

By: Ella Maria Diaz

Winner, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, 2019 The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine the meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community engagement projects such as breakfast programs, community art classes, and political and labor activism. The collective’s work has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights activism and to Chicano/a art history, literature, and culture. Blending RCAF members’ biographies and accounts of their artistic production with art historical, cultural, and literary scholarship, Flying under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force is the first in-depth study of this vanguard Chicano/a arts collective and activist group. Ella Maria Diaz investigates how the RCAF questioned and countered conventions of Western art, from the canon taught in US institutions to Mexican national art history, while advancing a Chicano/a historical consciousness in the cultural borderlands. In particular, she demonstrates how women significantly contributed to the collective’s output, navigating and challenging the overarching patriarchal cultural norms of the Chicano Movement and their manifestations in the RCAF. Diaz also shows how the RCAF’s verbal and visual architecture—a literal and figurative construction of Chicano/a signs, symbols, and texts—established the groundwork for numerous theoretical interventions made by key scholars in the 1990s and the twenty-first century.

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University of Texas Press

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1477312420

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9781477312421

Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts

Fidelity to Alterity

By: Anna Maria D'Amore

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Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts

Fidelity to Alterity

By: Anna Maria D'Amore

Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts: Fidelity to Alterity addresses an area of research that has received little if any attention in translation theory: the translation into English of contact neologisms and code-switching in Mexican Spanish. The translator of Mexican texts is invited to review the historical background and the sociopolitical and linguistic factors that have led to the emergence of new varieties of English and Spanish, in particular the mixed varieties and code-switching common to parts of Mexico and the United States, often known collectively as Spanglish. Since translation should not consist of effacing the Other, Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts provides conceptual tools and practical advice for carrying out foreignizing translations that allow for a degree of preservation of linguistic and cultural differences through the employment of heterogeneous discourse.

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268

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Peter Lang

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1433104997

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9781433104992

The true life of Pablo Escobar

Blood, betrayal and death

By: Astrid Maria Legarda Martinez

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The true life of Pablo Escobar

Blood, betrayal and death

By: Astrid Maria Legarda Martinez

Hello beautiful. I am Popeye." In 1998 I met Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez—alias "Popeye"—lieutenant to the Medellín Cartel's leader, Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Our first encounter was at the high security yard of the Modelo Prison in Bogotá, Colombia. I visited the prison frequently as a journalist for RCN TV. I was always conducting interviews and speaking to the inmates, uncovering news about what was really happening inside the prison. At that time, stories about confrontations between guerrilla and paramilitary factions were everyday news. You could often hear shots inside the prison as the different sides fought for control. I had always wanted to meet one of the members of the Medellín Cartel. I was curious to know who they were, what they looked like, and what these men, who belonged to the most powerful drug cartel that has ever existed in Colombia, were thinking. At the high security yard I was able to talk with two of them. The most notorious was Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez. "Hello beautiful. I am Popeye." The man who sat in front of me stared at me. His pale skin reflected the six years he had been in prison; in fact, it looked as if he had never once stepped outside. Popeye smiled at me with curiosity while his cold eyes examined me from head to toe. We were introduced by another inmate, Ángel Gaitán Mahecha, a man accused of paramilitarism and homicide. My first impression was surprise and curiosity; I also examined him from head to toe. He wasn't quite six feet tall. His slim body and the smile on his face almost put me at ease. I thought this man couldn't possibly frighten anyone, and yet I couldn't forget the number of homicides in which he had been involved. I wanted to see into the mind of the man who planned and participated in the most horrible homicides that the cartel had carried out in their war against the state.

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Ediciones y Distribuciones Dipon Ltda.

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9588243548

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9789588243542

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

By: Maria Montt Strabucchi

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Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

By: Maria Montt Strabucchi

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘China’ stands in as a wandering signifier and as a metonym for Asia, a gesture that essentialises it as an unchanging other. On another level, it argues that the novels’ employment of ‘China’ resists essentialist constructions of identity. ‘China’ is thus shown to be serving as a concept which allows for criticism of the construction of fetishized otherness and of the exclusion inherent in essentialist discourses of identity. The book presents and analyses the depiction of an imaginary of China which is arguably performative, but which discloses the tropes and themes which may be both established and subverted, in the novels. Chapter One examines the way in which ‘China’ is represented and constructed in Latin American novels where this country is a setting for their stories. The novels studied in Chapter Two are linked to the presence of Chinese communities in Latin America. The final chapter examines novels whose main theme is travel to contemporary China. Ultimately, in the novels studied in this book ‘China’ serves as a concept through which essentialist notions of identity are critiqued.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837644640

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9781837644643

Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America

By: Maria Victoria Murillo

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Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America

By: Maria Victoria Murillo

Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521785553

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9780521785556

We Are Gotham

Finding American Society in the Television Series

By: Richard A. Hall,Maria Antonieta Reyes,Josh Plock

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We Are Gotham

Finding American Society in the Television Series

By: Richard A. Hall,Maria Antonieta Reyes,Josh Plock

The television series Gotham gave viewers a unique perspective on the fascinating world of Batman, the legendary comic book character. More than a simple "origin story," the series introduces viewers to a pre-Batman Gotham City, where young hero-cop James Gordon fights a one-man war on crime. In a city where crime is evolving from traditional organized crime to a city plagued by flamboyant and psychotic "super villains," there is a desperate need for a Batman. All of this is witnessed by Bruce Wayne, who was orphaned after his parents were murdered. This book details how characters and story lines throughout the series touch on modern America: our ethics and flaws, our fears and aspirations. Chapters also explore the show's unique twists to classic depictions of the franchise's characters, who have been adored by millions of fans across the decades. Throughout the text, the authors examine Gotham for its insight into 21st-century America, concluding in the exhilarating and frightening conclusion that "We ARE Gotham.

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McFarland

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1476647348

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9781476647340

Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels

By: José Maria Ponce-Ortega,José Ezequiel Santibañez-Aguilar

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Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels

By: José Maria Ponce-Ortega,José Ezequiel Santibañez-Aguilar

Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels presents several optimization models for the design and planning of sustainable biorefinery supply chains, including issues surrounding the potential of biomass feedstocks in multiple harvesting sites, availability and seasonality of biomass resources, different potential geographical locations for processing plants that produce multiple products using diverse production technologies, economies of scale for production technologies, demands and prices of multiple products, locations of storage facilities, and a number of transportation modes. Sustainability considerations are incorporated into the proposed models by including simultaneous economic, environmental and social performance in the evaluation of the supply chain designs. - Covers different optimization models for the strategic planning of biorefining systems - Includes the GAMS and MATLAB codes for solving various problems - Considers sustainability criteria in the presented models - Presents different approaches for obtained trade-off solutions - Provides general software that can be used for solving different problems

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Elsevier

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0128181796

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9780128181799

Fluid Geographies

Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico

By: K. Maria D. Lane

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Fluid Geographies

Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico

By: K. Maria D. Lane

An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system. Maria Lane’s Fluid Geographies traces New Mexico’s transition from a community-based to an expert-led system of water management during the pre-statehood era. To understand this major shift, Lane carefully examines the primary conflict of the time, which pitted Indigenous and Nuevomexicano communities, with their long-established systems of irrigation management, against Anglo-American settlers, who benefitted from centralized bureaucratic management of water. The newcomers’ system eventually became settled law, but water disputes have continued throughout the district courts of New Mexico’s Rio Grande watershed ever since. Using a fine-grained analysis of legislative texts and nearly two hundred district court cases, Lane analyzes evolving cultural patterns and attitudes toward water use and management in a pivotal time in New Mexico’s history. Illuminating complex themes for a general audience, Fluid Geographies helps readers understand how settler colonialism constructed a racialized understanding of scientific expertise and legitimized the dispossession of nonwhite communities in New Mexico.

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University of Chicago Press

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022629496X

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9780226294964

Gale Researcher Guide for: Attraction and Romantic Relationships

By: Maria Guarneri-White,Colette Jacquot

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Attraction and Romantic Relationships

By: Maria Guarneri-White,Colette Jacquot

Gale Researcher Guide for: Attraction and Romantic Relationships is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

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Gale, Cengage Learning

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1535859059

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Down the Banister

Tales of Fairies and Elves

By: Jennie Kent,Maria Akl,Maria Villegas,Benjamin Villegas

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Down the Banister

Tales of Fairies and Elves

By: Jennie Kent,Maria Akl,Maria Villegas,Benjamin Villegas

For ages 9-12. A delightful series of short tales, in which 2 children wind up in a lively, exotic universe, a land of 7 kingdoms populated by classic creatures of children's literature: fairies, gnomes, elves, kings, princes, dragons, magicians, witches, and genies.

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Villegas Asociados

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9588160197

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9789588160191

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations

By: Goran Putnik,Maria Manuela Cunha

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Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations

By: Goran Putnik,Maria Manuela Cunha

This book documents the most relevant contributions to the introduction of networked, dynamic, agile, and virtual organizational models; definitions; taxonomies; opportunities; and reference models and architectures. It creates a repository of the main developments regarding the virtual organization, compiling definitions, characteristics, comparisons, advantages, practices, enabling technologies, and best practices"--Provided by publisher.

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IGI Global Snippet

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159904885X

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9781599048857

Book's by Maria Montoya

Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force

Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts

Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts

The true life of Pablo Escobar

The true life of Pablo Escobar

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016)

Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America

Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America

We Are Gotham

We Are Gotham

Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels

Strategic Planning for the Sustainable Production of Biofuels

Fluid Geographies

Fluid Geographies

Gale Researcher Guide for: Attraction and Romantic Relationships

Gale Researcher Guide for: Attraction and Romantic Relationships

Down the Banister

Down the Banister

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations

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