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Fighting Colors

The Creation of Military Aircraft Nose Art

By: Gary Velasco

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Fighting Colors

The Creation of Military Aircraft Nose Art

By: Gary Velasco

Since the early days of flight, military pilots have personalized aircraft with artistic creations, giving each plane a unique identity and aircrews a sense of pride in ""their war bird."" This comprehensive volume covers the technical aspect on how nose art was applied to vintage military aircraft, with hundreds of fighters and bombers pictured. The uses of materials, supplies, and development of nose art designs are discussed with surviving nose artists. The author examines and analyzes WWII–era photographs and reveals their content along with numerous photos never before published. Recreating step-by-step flying war bird nose art restorations is outlined for the first time. Fighting Colors is an enjoyable read for military personnel and a graphic tool for all enthusiasts of pinup and vintage aircraft nose art.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1596529989

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9781596529984

The Lieutenant Nun

Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso

By: Sherry Velasco

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The Lieutenant Nun

Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso

By: Sherry Velasco

Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastián, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, "went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about." Her long service fighting for the Spanish empire in Peru and Chile won her a soldier's pension and a papal dispensation to continue dressing in men's clothing. This theoretically informed study analyzes the many ways in which the "Lieutenant Nun" has been constructed, interpreted, marketed, and consumed by both the dominant and divergent cultures in Europe, Latin America, and the United States from the seventeenth century to the present. Sherry Velasco argues that the ways in which literary, theatrical, iconographic, and cinematic productions have transformed Erauso's life experience into a public spectacle show how transgender narratives expose and manipulate spectators' fears and desires. Her book thus reveals what happens when the private experience of a transgenderist is shifted to the public sphere and thereby marketed as a hybrid spectacle for the curious gaze of the general audience.

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260

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University of Texas Press

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029277379X

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9780292773790

Urban Indians in a Silver City

Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810

By: Dana Velasco Murillo

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Urban Indians in a Silver City

Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810

By: Dana Velasco Murillo

In the sixteenth century, silver mined by native peoples became New Spain's most important export. Silver production served as a catalyst for northern expansion, creating mining towns that led to the development of new industries, markets, population clusters, and frontier institutions. Within these towns, the need for labor, raw materials, resources, and foodstuffs brought together an array of different ethnic and social groups—Spaniards, Indians, Africans, and ethnically mixed individuals or castas. On the northern edge of the empire, 350 miles from Mexico City, sprung up Zacatecas, a silver-mining town that would grow in prominence to become the "Second City of New Spain." Urban Indians in a Silver City illuminates the social footprint of colonial Mexico's silver mining district. It reveals the men, women, children, and families that shaped indigenous society and shifts the view of indigenous peoples from mere laborers to settlers and vecinos (municipal residents). Dana Velasco Murillo shows how native peoples exploited the urban milieu to create multiple statuses and identities that allowed them to live in Zacatecas as both Indians and vecinos. In reconsidering traditional paradigms about ethnicity and identity among the urban Indian population, she raises larger questions about the nature and rate of cultural change in the Mexican north.

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327

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Stanford University Press

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0804799644

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9780804799645

Queering the Global Filipina Body

Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora

By: Gina K. Velasco

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Queering the Global Filipina Body

Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora

By: Gina K. Velasco

Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization. Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052358

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9780252052354

Mixtec Transnational Identity

By: Laura Velasco Ortiz

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Mixtec Transnational Identity

By: Laura Velasco Ortiz

As Mexican migrants have found new lives in the United States, the appearance of migrant organizations reflects the revitalization of ancestral community life. One example, the Binational Oaxacan Indigenous Front, includes participants from cities along the border and represents diverse organizations of indigenous migrants from Oaxaca. Its creation reflects the vast changes that have taken place in migrants’ lives in less than thirty years. Mixtec Transnational Identity is the first book to describe in detail the emergence of a wide range of transnational indigenous organizations and communities in the greater Mexico–U.S. border region. It documents and analyzes the construction of novel identities formed within transnational contexts that may not conform to identities in either the “sending” or “receiving” societies. Laura Velasco Ortiz investigates groups located on both sides of the border that have maintained strong links with towns and villages in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca in order to understand how this transformation came about. Through a combination of survey, ethnography, and biography, she examines the formation of ethnic identity under the conditions of international migration, giving special attention to the emergence of organizations and their leaders as collective and individual ethnic agents of change. Velasco Ortiz reconstructs the Mixtec experience through three lines of analysis: the formation of organizations beyond the confines of home communities; the emergence of indigenous migrant leaders; and the shaping of ethnic consciousness that assimilates the experiences of a community straddling the border. Her research brings to light the way in which the dispersion of members of different communities is offset by the formation of migrant networks with family and community ties, while the politicization of these networks enables the formation of both hometown associations and transnational pan-ethnic organizations. An important focus of her analysis is gender differentiation within the ethnic community. There has been little research into the relationship between the process of collective agency and the reconstitution of the migrants’ ethnic identity. Mixtec Transnational Identity should stimulate further study of Latino migration to the U.S. border region and its consequences on ethnic identity.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816551235

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9780816551231

All-Star 1

By: Linda Lee,Stephen Sloan,Grace Tanaka,Shirley Velasco,Kristin Sherman

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All-Star 1

By: Linda Lee,Stephen Sloan,Grace Tanaka,Shirley Velasco,Kristin Sherman

All-Star is a four-level, standards-based series for adult English learners featuring a picture-dictionary approach to vocabulary building. Big picture scenes in each unit provide springboards to a wealth of activities that develop all the language skills. An accessible, step-by-step sequence of lessons in each unit systemically builds language and math skills around life-skill topics. The series presents a family, work, or community application in each unit, and provides two alternate lesson applications in each of the All Star Workbooks.

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McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT

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0072846666

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9780072846669

All-Star 3 Los Angeles

By: Linda Lee,Bernard Jean,Stephen Sloan,Kristin Sherman,Grace Tanaka,Shirley Velasco

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All-Star 3 Los Angeles

By: Linda Lee,Bernard Jean,Stephen Sloan,Kristin Sherman,Grace Tanaka,Shirley Velasco

All-Star" is a four-level, "standards-based" series for adult English learners featuring a picture-dictionary approach to vocabulary building. "Big picture" scenes in each unit provide springboards to a wealth of activities that develop all the language skills. An accessible, step-by-step sequence of lessons in each unit systemically builds language and math skills around life-skill topics. The series presents a family, work, or community application in each unit, and provides two alternate lesson applications in each of the "All Star" Workbooks. This Los Angeles workbook is designed to accompany the intermediate level student book.

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McGraw-Hill

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007335564X

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9780073355641

All-Star 4 Los Angeles Workbook

By: Linda Lee,Kristin Sherman,Mari Vargo,Laura Chardiet,Sloan Stephen,Jill Gluck,Tanaka Grace,Velasco Shirley

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All-Star 4 Los Angeles Workbook

By: Linda Lee,Kristin Sherman,Mari Vargo,Laura Chardiet,Sloan Stephen,Jill Gluck,Tanaka Grace,Velasco Shirley

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McGraw-Hill

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0073355658

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All-Star

By: Linda Lee,Jean Bernard,Stephen Sloan,Kristin Sherman

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All-Star

By: Linda Lee,Jean Bernard,Stephen Sloan,Kristin Sherman

All-Staris a four-level,standards-basedseries for adult English learners featuring a picture-dictionary approach to vocabulary building.Big picturescenes in each unit provide springboards to a wealth of activities that develop all the language skills. An accessible, step-by-step sequence of lessons in each unit systemically builds language and math skills around life-skill topics. The series presents a family, work, or community application in each unit, and provides two alternate lesson applications in each of theAll StarWorkbooks. This is the beginning level student book with audio highlights.

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McGraw-Hill Esl/Elt

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0073048712

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9780073048710

All-Star - Book 1 (Beginning) - Los Angeles Workbook

By: Linda Lee,Kristin Sherman,Stephen Sloan,Grace Tanaka,Shirley Velasco

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All-Star - Book 1 (Beginning) - Los Angeles Workbook

By: Linda Lee,Kristin Sherman,Stephen Sloan,Grace Tanaka,Shirley Velasco

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0073384615

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9780073384610

All Star 2

By: Linda Lee,Jean Bernard,Kristin Sherman

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All Star 2

By: Linda Lee,Jean Bernard,Kristin Sherman

All-Star is a four-level, standards-based series for adult English learners featuring a picture-dictionary approach to vocabulary building. Big picture scenes in each unit provide springboards to a wealth of activities that develop all the language skills.. .An accessible, step-by-step sequence of lessons in each unit systemically builds language and math skills around life-skill topics. The series presents a family, work, or community application in each unit, and provides two alternate lesson applications in each of the All Star Workbooks.. .This workbook is designed to accompany the high beginning level student book.

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McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT

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0072846755

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9780072846751

All-Star - Book 3 (Intermediate) - USA Post-Test Study Guide

By: Linda Lee,Bernard Jean,Kristin Sherman,Stephen Sloan

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All-Star - Book 3 (Intermediate) - USA Post-Test Study Guide

By: Linda Lee,Bernard Jean,Kristin Sherman,Stephen Sloan

All-Star is a four-level, standards-based series for adult English learners featuring a picture-dictionary approach to vocabulary building. Big picture scenes in each unit provide springboards to a wealth of activities that develop all the language skills.. .An accessible, step-by-step sequence of lessons in each unit systemically builds language and math skills around life-skill topics. The series presents a family, work, or community application in each unit, and provides two alternate lesson applications in each of the All Star Workbooks.. .This USA post-test study guide is designed to accompany the intermediate level student book.

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McGraw-Hill Esl/Elt

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0073138150

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9780073138152

All Star 3

By: Linda Lee,Kristin Sherman,Jean Bernard,Shirley Velasco,Grace Tanaka,Stephen Sloan

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All Star 3

By: Linda Lee,Kristin Sherman,Jean Bernard,Shirley Velasco,Grace Tanaka,Stephen Sloan

All-Star is a four-level, standards-based series for adult English learners featuring a picture-dictionary approach to vocabulary building. Big picture scenes in each unit provide springboards to a wealth of activities that develop all the language skills.. .An accessible, step-by-step sequence of lessons in each unit systemically builds language and math skills around life-skill topics. The series presents a family, work, or community application in each unit, and provides two alternate lesson applications in each of the All Star Workbooks.. .This workbook is designed to accompany the intermediate level student book.

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McGraw-Hill ESL/ELT

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0072846801

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9780072846805

All Star 3 SB

By: Linda Lee,Jean Bernard,Kristin Sherman,Stephen Sloan,Grace Tanaka

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All Star 3 SB

By: Linda Lee,Jean Bernard,Kristin Sherman,Stephen Sloan,Grace Tanaka

All-Star is a four-level, standards-based series for adult English learners featuring a picture-dictionary approach to vocabulary building. Big picture scenes in each unit provide springboards to a wealth of activities that develop all the language skills.. .An accessible, step-by-step sequence of lessons in each unit systemically builds language and math skills around life-skill topics. The series presents a family, work, or community application in each unit, and provides two alternate lesson applications in each of the All Star Workbooks.. .This is the intermediate level student book.

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0072846798

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Book's by Velasco Shirley

Fighting Colors

Fighting Colors

The Lieutenant Nun

The Lieutenant Nun

Urban Indians in a Silver City

Urban Indians in a Silver City

Queering the Global Filipina Body

Queering the Global Filipina Body

Mixtec Transnational Identity

Mixtec Transnational Identity

All-Star 1

All-Star 1

All-Star 3 Los Angeles

All-Star 3 Los Angeles

All-Star 4 Los Angeles Workbook

All-Star 4 Los Angeles Workbook

All-Star

All-Star

All-Star - Book 1 (Beginning) - Los Angeles Workbook

All-Star - Book 1 (Beginning) - Los Angeles Workbook

All Star 2

All Star 2

All-Star - Book 3 (Intermediate) - USA Post-Test Study Guide

All-Star - Book 3 (Intermediate) - USA Post-Test Study Guide

All Star 3

All Star 3

All Star 3 SB

All Star 3 SB

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