Immigration and the growing Latino population of the United States have become such contentious issues that it can be hard to have a civil conversation about how Latinoization is changing the face of America. So in the summer of 2007, Louis Mendoza set out to do just that. Starting from Santa Cruz, California, he bicycled 8,500 miles around the entire perimeter of the country, talking to people in large cities and small towns about their experiences either as immigrants or as residents who have welcomed—or not—Latino immigrants into their communities. He presented their enlightening, sometimes surprising, firsthand accounts in Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States.
Now, in A Journey Around Our America, Mendoza offers his own account of the visceral, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of traveling the country in search of a deeper, broader understanding of what it means to be Latino in the United States in the twenty-first century. With a blend of first- and second-person narratives, blog entries, poetry, and excerpts from conversations he had along the way, Mendoza presents his own aspirations for and critique of social relations, political ruminations, personal experiences, and emotional vulnerability alongside the stories of people from all walks of life, including students, activists, manual laborers, and intellectuals. His conversations and his experiences as a Latino on the road reveal the multilayered complexity of Latino life today as no academic study or newspaper report ever could.
Автор: Hutchinson, Shaun David, Название: The apocalypse of Elena Mendoza / ISBN: 1481498541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781481498548 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: From the critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants and At the Edge of the Universe comes a mind-bending, riveting novel about a teen who was born to a virgin mother and realizes she has the power to heal--but that power comes at a huge cost. Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth. This can be scientifically explained (it's called parthenogenesis), but what can't be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she's had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking lot. Or why the boy who shot Freddie, David Combs, disappeared from the same parking lot minutes later after getting sucked up into the clouds. What also can't be explained are the talking girl on the front of a tampon box, or the reasons that David Combs shot Freddie in the first place. As more unbelievable things occur, and Elena continues to perform miracles, the only remaining explanation is the least logical of all--that the world is actually coming to an end, and Elena is possibly the only one who can do something about it.
Описание: A third outing for Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta sees him team up with the head of the Pacific Cartel and confront a killer delivering death to every dentist in the region
Автор: Mendoza, ?lmer Название: The Acid Test ISBN: 1681442884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681442884 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 1990.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Straffon, Mendoza Название: Art in the making ISBN: 9085550904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789085550907 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Provides a surprising answer to the origins of America`s most durable myth. For the first time, this book links the stories and lives of Abner Graves, a mining engineer, and Adam Ford, a medical doctor, two residents of Denver, Colorado. While the actual origins of the game of baseball are the subject of ongoing debate and study, new light is shed on the source of baseball`s durable creation myth.
Автор: Mendoza Paula Название: Play for Time: Poems ISBN: 0982814275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780982814277 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Selected by Vijay Seshadri as the winner of the 2019 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Playful and deliberate, innovative and strange, Play for Time, Mendoza`s debut collection of experimental lyric poems demolishes the literary commonplaces of "universality" and provides a timely introduction to an explosively original voice in poetry.
Автор: Mendoza, ?lmer Название: Silver Bullets ISBN: 1681446138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681446134 Издательство: Hodder Рейтинг: Цена: 1547.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
