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Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations

The Viable System Method

By: Perez Rios Jose

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Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations

The Viable System Method

By: Perez Rios Jose

How can organizations and their managers face the tremendous complexity of the current environment? How can their compliance with the requirements of sustainability be evaluated? And how can new organizations be structured to ensure their viability? This book addresses these questions in a very practical way, essentially combining systems theory with cybernetics to help managers to evaluate and shape organizations by making accessible the wealth of knowledge contained in these fields. Importantly, it also provides guidelines for its practical application.

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Design and Diagnosis for Sustainable Organizations

The Viable System Method

By: Perez Rios Jose

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The Viable System Method

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Confessional Cinema

Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975

By: Jorge Perez

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Confessional Cinema

Religion, Film, and Modernity in Spain’s Development Years, 1960–1975

By: Jorge Perez

In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Pérez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Pérez interrogates the assumption that after 1957, when the Franco regime recast itself in a secular and modernizing fashion, religion vanished from the cultural field. Instead, Spanish cinema addressed the transformation within Spanish Catholicism following Vatican II and Spain’s modernization processes. Confessional Cinema offers the first analysis of a neglected body of Spanish films, "nun films," which focus on the active role of religious women in the transformation of Spanish Catholicism. Pérez argues that commercial films, despite being less aesthetically accomplished, delved more than oppositional, art-house films into the fluctuating zeitgeist of the development years regarding the transformations within Spanish Catholicism. Confessional Cinema offers a provocative and original analysis of the significance of religion not from a theological point of view, but rather as a socio-political force and cultural determinant in the Spanish public sphere of this period, known as desarrollismo (development years) from 1960-1975.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487512457

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9781487512453

King Ranch

A Legacy in Art

By: Noe Perez

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King Ranch

A Legacy in Art

By: Noe Perez

Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas and American history. Since its founding by the energetic and visionary Richard King, it has indelibly captured for generations the essence of the American West. As Tom Lea asserted in his epic 1953 history, the spirit of the place “is alive in the land itself, in the far quietness of growing grass and grazing herds.” In King Ranch: A Legacy in Art, editors Bob Kinnan, William E. Reaves, and Linda J. Reaves have assembled a team of collaborators to present a beautiful, informative account of the ranch and its place in the artistic heritage of the region. Pairing original paintings by artist Noe Perez with insightful essays from curators Bruce Shackelford and Ron Tyler, this book celebrates the many ways “King Ranch culture” has enriched appreciation for the decorative, practical, and fine arts in Texas and the greater American West. Opening with a foreword by Jamey Clement, former chair of the board for King Ranch, Inc., and continuing with a brief introduction to the ranch’s history by Bob Kinnan, King Ranch: A Legacy in Art will heighten appreciation of the natural beauty and artistic influence of this legendary place.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623499534

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9781623499532

Colonial Intimacies

Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885

By: Erika Perez

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Colonial Intimacies

Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885

By: Erika Perez

“A gem of historical scholarship!”—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America How do intimate relationships reveal, reflect, enable, or enact the social and political dimensions of imperial projects? In particular, how did colonial relations in late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century southern California implicate sexuality, marriage, and kinship ties? In Colonial Intimacies, Erika Pérez probes everyday relationships, encounters, and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns. Her work reveals, through the lens of social and familial intimacy, subtle tools of conquest and acts of resistance and accommodation among indigenous peoples, Spanish-Mexican settlers, Franciscan missionaries, and European and Anglo-American merchants. Concentrating on Catholic conversion, compadrazgo (baptismal sponsorship that often forged interethnic relations), and intermarriage, Pérez examines the ways indigenous and Spanish-Mexican women helped shape communities and sustained their culture. She uncovers an unexpected fluidity in Californian society—shaped by race, class, gender, religion, and kinship—that persisted through the colony’s transition from Spanish to American rule. Colonial Intimacies focuses on the offspring of interethnic couples and their strategies for coping with colonial rule and negotiating racial and cultural identities. Pérez argues that these sons and daughters experienced conquest in different ways tied directly to their gender, and in turn faced different options in terms of marriage partners, economic status, social networks, and expressions of biculturality. Offering a more nuanced understanding of the colonial experience, Colonial Intimacies exposes the personal ties that undergirded imperial relationships in Spanish, Mexican, and early American California.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806160837

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9780806160832

Diaz-Llanos Saavedra

By: Juan Antonio Gonzalez Perez

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Diaz-Llanos Saavedra

By: Juan Antonio Gonzalez Perez

The architects Saavedra and Díaz-Llanos produced a marvelous adaptation of the architectural style to the environment without compromising its essence.

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Actar D, Inc.

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1638408386

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9781638408383

Structure of Cuban History

Meanings and Purpose of the Past

By: Louis A. Pérez,Louis A. Perez, Jr.

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Structure of Cuban History

Meanings and Purpose of the Past

By: Louis A. Pérez,Louis A. Perez, Jr.

In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of

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UNC Press Books

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1469606925

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9781469606927

The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics

From Doping to Cyborgs

By: Jose Luis Perez Trivino

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The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics

From Doping to Cyborgs

By: Jose Luis Perez Trivino

The book attempts to provide a wide overview of key ethical matters in the philosophy of sport: What is fair play? Is strategic fouling legitimate? What is the role of cheating and gamesmanship in sport? What can be said about doping and physical enhancement? How can we approach gender issues that come from the core of the practice of sport? Does sport share any common characteristics, or even roots, with racism, violence or nationalism? Should cyborgathletes compete in equal conditions with organic athletes? What can we do with new technologies in sport? In the book there is an analyse of all possible solutions that the main authors or contemporary sport philosopher has brought forward on a topic, and after having laid out the current panorama, the author deal with each of them directly and personally.

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Lexington Books

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0739179993

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9780739179994

A Brief History of Central America

By: Hector Perez-Brignoli

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A Brief History of Central America

By: Hector Perez-Brignoli

This is the first interpretive history of Central America by a Central American historian to be published in English. Anyone with an interest in current events in the region will find here an insightful and well-written guide to the history of its five national states—Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Traces of a common past invite us to make generalizations about the region, even to posit the idea of a Central American nation. But, as Hector Perez-Brignoli shows us, we can learn more from a comparative approach that establishes both the points of convergence and the separate paths taken by the five different countries of Central America. The author offers a concise overview of the region's history from the sixteenth century to the present, beginning with human and cultural geography in the first chapter and ending with the present crisis in the last. He deals with the fundamental themes and problems of the area: the characteristics of the colonial heritage, independence and the crisis of the Federal Republic, the formation of nation-states during the nineteenth century, and the development of export agriculture based on coffee and bananas. The narrative moves finally into the twentieth century to look at the growing impoverishment that multiplies inequalities and leads to the shipwreck of liberal democracy. The case of Costa Rica, exceptional in more ways than one, receives special attention.

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Univ of California Press

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0520909763

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9780520909762

Blood, Land and Power

The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period

By: Manuel Perez-Garcia

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Blood, Land and Power

The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Nobility and Lineages in the Early Modern Period

By: Manuel Perez-Garcia

The historical data and vast information in the historical sources is arranged in this book using software to make clusters of data and quantification. This serves as illustrative example for future research on how to apply such methods to historical research. The analysis of formation of new elites and powerful families, and the social networks they belonged to, serves to understand in the long run how groups and families in localities of southern Europe have consolidated their power and how political institutions (then and now) have served to the perpetuation of such families in the exercise of power. Disputes and rivalry between factions, elites and groups of power to control land (as main economic source of power) and political institutions have not ceased since the early modern period until today. Southern and Mediterranean Europe localities are a good example in which fierce struggles between elite groups have lasted across space and time.

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University of Wales Press

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1786837129

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9781786837127

Colonial Dis-Ease

US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941

By: Anne Perez Hattori

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Colonial Dis-Ease

US Navy Health Policies and the Chamorros of Guam, 1898–1941

By: Anne Perez Hattori

A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions—sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex—resulted from the U.S. Navy’s introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam’s native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers the histories of Chamorro leprosy patients exiled to Culion Leper Colony in the Philippines, hookworm programs for children, the regulation of native midwives and nurses, and the creation and operation of the Susana Hospital for women and children. Changes to Guam’s traditional systems of health and hygiene placed demands not only on Chamorro bodies, but also on their cultural values, social relationships, political controls, and economic expectations. Hattori effectively demonstrates that the new health projects signified more than a benevolent interest in hygiene and the philanthropic sharing of medical knowledge. Rather the navy’s health care regime in Guam was an important vehicle through which U.S. colonial power and moral authority over Chamorros was introduced and entrenched. Medical experts, navy doctors, and health care workers asserted their scientific knowledge as well as their administrative might and in the process became active participants in the colonization of Guam.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824828089

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9780824828080

Creating a Campus-Wide Culture of Student Success

An Evidence-Based Approach to Supporting Low-Income, Racially Minoritized, and First-Generation College Students

By: Ronald E. E. Hallett,Adrianna Kezar,Joseph A. A. Kitchen,Rosemary J. J. Perez

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Creating a Campus-Wide Culture of Student Success

An Evidence-Based Approach to Supporting Low-Income, Racially Minoritized, and First-Generation College Students

By: Ronald E. E. Hallett,Adrianna Kezar,Joseph A. A. Kitchen,Rosemary J. J. Perez

Offering a new approach to institutional practices, this book describes evidence-based strategies to create a campus culture conducive to truly supporting all students. We are at a critical crossroads in higher education, where large numbers of low-income, racially minoritized, and first-generation college students – referred to in this book as "at-promise students" – are attending college in greater numbers than ever, yet access has not translated to significantly improved retention and graduation rates. This book, therefore, proposes a realignment of existing initiatives to create campus-wide support through a new model of coordination. The ideas presented in this book are the culmination of one of the largest studies of comprehensive college support programs for at-promise students. Chapters include illustrations of the key concepts and promising practices of the Promoting At-promise Student Success (PASS) Project, as well as guiding questions that can be used to facilitate conversations on campus. In this helpful resource, the authors address how student supports are delivered in validating ways, rather than focusing solely on what supports are offered, as has typically been the way institutions address the issues that at-promise students face. This book is intended to provide guidance and support to educators who want to be a part of changing how higher education supports at-promise students toward increased equity.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000982661

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9781000982664

Becoming Julia de Burgos

The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

By: Vanessa Perez Rosario

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Becoming Julia de Burgos

The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

By: Vanessa Perez Rosario

While it is rare for a poet to become a cultural icon, Julia de Burgos has evoked feelings of bonding and identification in Puerto Ricans and Latinos in the United States for over half a century. In the first book-length study written in English, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096924

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9780252096921

Nuestra Historia en PoesÍa

Un Homenaje a Mi Padre, Legado para la Humanidad

By: Rodolfo E. Perez Curotto

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Nuestra Historia en PoesÍa

Un Homenaje a Mi Padre, Legado para la Humanidad

By: Rodolfo E. Perez Curotto

Nuestra Historia en Poesía" es la compilación de los poemas escritos por mi Padre en 20 años de su vida. Aunque fue destacado comerciante, le encantaba transmitir sus sentimientos en poesías, con ese don tan hermoso de redactar con sencillez y transparencia. Mi sueño es dar a conocer tu obra literaria que para mí es bella y valiosísima. Ojalá el mundo entero te hubiera conocido personalmente, porque todos los que tuvieron esa dicha, guardan recuerdos hermosos de las huellas que dejaste en sus vidas; pero, para los que no tuvieron esa suerte, quedan tus poemas que estoy segura tocarán muchos corazones y ayudarán a más de uno a encontrar motivos para superarse, para vencer obstáculos, para celebrar la vida, para orar a Dios... gracias a tu inspiración y a tu capacidad de transmitir en forma hermosa tus más sublimes sentimientos. ¡¡¡TE AMO PAPITO Y SIEMPRE TE LLEVARE EN MI CORAZON!!!

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Palibrio

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1463332556

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9781463332556

Island in the Light/Isla en la luz

By: Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation

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Island in the Light/Isla en la luz

By: Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation

Island in the Light / Isla en la luz is a fascinating and insightful compilation that pairs contemporary Cuban visual art and literature by having 30 prominent writers respond to the works of 35 renowned artists. Contemporary Cuban art, literature, and music come together in Island in the Light / Isla en la luz. This bilingual compilation of the work of 35 artists and 30 writers began by selecting artwork by renowned artists and asking prominent writers to create original stories, poems, or essays in response. The result is a thoroughly original and captivating selection of visual arts and literature in dialogue that conveys a sense of the essence and energy of Cuban arts today. Artists represented include Tania Bruguera, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Yoan Capote, Teresita Fernández, Roberto Fabelo, Carlos Garaicoa, and Enrique Martinez Celaya. Among the writers are Wendy Guerra, José Kozer, Jorge Enrique Lage, Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, Achy Obejas, Leonardo Padura, and Reina María Rodríguez. The works are drawn from the Jorge M. Pérez Art Collection; the majority have been gifted to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), while the others are promised gifts to PAMM. The volume also includes music: Pavel Urkiza composed original scores inspired by several of the selections that readers link to through QR codes. In addition to the short stories, poems, and essays inspired by the artwork, the volume includes commentary and critical essays by Jorge M. Pérez, Carlos Garaicoa, and Wendy Guerra and Leonardo Padura. Proceeds benefit The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation, which will redirect the funds to arts organizations.

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Tra Publishing

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1732297851

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9781732297852

Quantifying Sustainable Development

The Future of Tropical Economies

By: Carlos Leon Perez,Grégoire Leclerc

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Quantifying Sustainable Development

The Future of Tropical Economies

By: Carlos Leon Perez,Grégoire Leclerc

CD-ROM contains: Data sets and programs -- Color images -- Animated models -- Photographic tour of Costa Rica.

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Academic Press

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0123188601

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9780123188601

Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Mexican Students

By: William Perez,Rafael Vásquez

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Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Mexican Students

By: William Perez,Rafael Vásquez

This book uncovers the social and educational experiences of an increasing yet understudied population of young immigrants in the US, focusing on multilingual students who speak one of three Indigenous languages: Zapotec, Mixtec and P’urhépecha. It explores students’ ethnoracial identities, Indigenous language use and transnational practices and the influence of these factors on school adjustment, academic achievement and educational pathways. This three-year mixed-methods study in semi-urban, urban and rural contexts assesses student interviews, teacher interviews and survey data to provide an account of how Indigenous students develop their social identities and examines the influence of their non-Indigenous Mexican peers and teachers. It highlights new developments in Latinx cultural and linguistic heterogeneity and intragroup race/ethnic relations, informing policymakers and educators about Indigenous immigrant students and how to effectively support their multilingualism, ethnic identity development and educational success. It will be of interest to researchers working in related fields such as education, Latin American studies and immigration studies.

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Channel View Publications

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1800417551

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9781800417557

A Geography of Hard Times

Narratives about Travel to South America, 1780-1849

By: Angela Perez-Mejia

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A Geography of Hard Times

Narratives about Travel to South America, 1780-1849

By: Angela Perez-Mejia

This fascinating glimpse into South America's past focuses on the works of four European voyagers who came to South America and left a legacy of travel writing in their wake: José Celestino Mutis, a Spanish botanist and doctor; Alexander von Humboldt, a German geographer; Maria Graham, a British historian; and Flora Tristán, a French feminist and labor activist whose father was Peruvian. Each took on his or her voyage as a personal endeavor, and collectively their travels covered the Andes from its northern traces in Venezuela to the southern heights of Chile and Arequipa. Their writing contributed to the construction of a complex map of the Andes in which many levels of physical and social geography may be read. By analyzing the travelers' narratives, illustrations, and maps, Ángela Pérez-Mejía unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience, explores its impact on both the object of description and the traveler's subjectivity, and the collective readership seeking a discourse of nationhood.

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State University of New York Press

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0791485455

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9780791485453

Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

By: Domino Renee Perez

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Fatherhood in the Borderlands

A Daughter's Slow Approach

By: Domino Renee Perez

2023 Finalist Best Academic Themed Book, College Level – English, International Latino Book Awards A contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media. As a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films—and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the basis of Perez’s “slow” research approach to race, class, and gender in the borderlands. Part cultural history, part literary criticism, part memoir, Fatherhood in the Borderlands takes an incisive look at the value of creative inquiry while it examines the nuanced portrayal of Mexican American fathers in literature and film. Perez reveals a shifting tension in the literal and figurative borderlands of popular narratives and shows how form, genre, and subject work to determine the roles Mexican American fathers are allowed to occupy. She also calls our attention to the cultural landscape that has allowed such a racialized representation of Mexican American fathers to continue, unopposed, for so many years. Fatherhood in the Borderlands brings readers right to the intersection of the white cultural mainstream in the United States and Mexican American cultural productions, carefully considering the legibility and illegibility of Brown fathers in contemporary media.

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University of Texas Press

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1477326367

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