Mexicans on death row
Me robaron 15 años de mi vida. Ricardo Aldape Guerra, originario de Monterrey, México, fue condenado a muerte en 1982 por el asesinato en primer grado de un oficial de policía de Houston que tuvo lugar tres meses antes. Pasó 15 años en una prisión de máxima seguridad en Huntsville, Texas, antes de que su sentencia de muerte fuera anulada y quedara en libertad. Ricardo Ampudia, ex Cónsul General de México en Houston, Texas, explora la historia y la ética de la pena de muerte en esta mirada a su impacto en los mexicanos condenados a muerte en los Estados Unidos. Ampudia, un opositor de la pena de muerte, llegó a sus creencias debido a su participación en la defensa de Aldape.
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My demons were real : constitutional lawyer Joseph Calamia's journey
"Even as a teenager, Joseph Albert Calamia understood the need to live by the rule of law. In high school, a class bullys continual harassment of a skinny Hispanic kid led Joseph to confront him. But he wisely did so with the coachs permission, challenging the boy to a boxing match. The tormentor went down quickly and Calamia settled the score under the jurisdiction of the high school coach. Calamia began his career as a criminal defense attorney in El Paso, Texas, in 1949. He was a crusader for justice, considered by many to be akin to Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. But he disagreed, The big...
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Recovering the Hispanic History of Texas
The eight essays included in this volume examine the dominant narrative of Texas history and seek to establish a record that includes both Mexican men and women, groups whose voices have been notably absent from the history books. Finding documents that reflect the experiences of those outside of the mainstream culture is difficult, since historical archives tend to contain materials produced by the privileged and governing classes of society. The contributing scholars make a case for expanding the notion of archives to include alternative sources. By utilizing oral histories, Spanish-language...
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic linguistic heritage : sociohistorical approaches to Spanish in the Estados Unidos
A diferencia de lo que comúnmente se cree, el primer idioma europeo hablado en suelo americano no fue el inglés, sino el español. El explorador Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca y sus compañeros de tripulación desembarcaron en la costa de Florida en 1513, casi 100 años antes de que los británicos establecieran una colonia permanente en Virginia. En esta fascinante exploración del desarrollo del idioma español desde una perspectiva sociohistórica en el territorio que se ha convertido en los Estados Unidos, los lingüistas y editores Balestra, Martínez y Moyna llaman la atención sobre la larga tradición de multilingüismo en los Estados Unidos, con la esperanza de desmentir el mito de que los EE. UU. alguna vez fueron una nación monolingüe.
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. II
"Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage is a compendium of articles by the leading scholars on Hispanic literary history of the Estados Unidos. The anthology functions to acquaint both expert and neophyte with the work that has been done on this literary history, to outline the agenda for recovering the lost Hispanic literary heritage and to discuss the pressing questions of canonization, social class, gender, and identity that must be addressed in restoring the lost or inaccessible history and literature of any people. As such, this volume of research illustrates Hispanic ethnic and...
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. III
"This third volume of academic essays addresses the broad topics of Rewriting the Present: Nineteenth-Century Historical Novels
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. VII
This volume of essays is the seventh in the series produced under the auspices of the Recovering the U. S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. This ongoing and comprehensive program seeks to locate, identify, preserve, and disseminate the literary contributions of U. S. Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. The eleven essays included in this volume examine key issues relevant to the exploration of Hispanic literary production in the Estados Unidos, including cultural identity, exile thought, class and womens issues.
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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, Vol. VIII
"These twelve pieces explore the meaning of "Nuestra América"our Americaas José Martí posited in his well-known essay on U. S. expansionism and imperialistic ploys. Scholars from the U. S. and aborad explore the "contact zones" that originated from the clash and/or syntheses between the U. S. and Latin America. Divided into four sections, this collection focuses on themes such as "Contesting the Canon, " "Mapping Latino Voices in the Estados Unidos, " "Postcoloniality in AutoBiografías" and "Nationalism in Contact Zones. ""
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Selected Poems = Poesía selecta
Although today Luis Palés Matos is virtually unknown to most American readers, the eminent U. S. poet and writer William Carlos Williams once praised his younger contemporary as one of the most important poets out of Latin America. Palés Matos was a native, and lifelong resident, of Puerto Rico. Though he was not black, he became one of the Caribbeans leading advocates of poesía negra (black Poesía). His landmark 1937 collection Tuntún de Pasa y Grifería: Poesía Afro-Antillana (Tom-Tom of Kinky Hair and Black Things: Afro-Caribbean Poesía) joyously celebrated the African aspects and sources of...
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The Adventures of Don Chipote, or, When parrots breast-feed
Originally published in 1928, and written by journalist Daniel Venegas, Las aventuras de Don Chipote is an unknown classic of American literature, dealing with the phenomenon that has made this nation great: immigration. It is the bittersweet tale of a greenhorn who abandons his plot of land (and a shack full of children) in Mexico to come to the Estados Unidos and sweep the gold up from the streets. Together with his faithful companions, a tramp named Policarpo and a dog called Skinenbones. Don Chipote (whose name means bump on the head) stumbles from one misadventure to another. Along the way,...
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