Good News from the Barrio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good News from the Barrio write by Harold Joseph Recinos. This book was released on . Good News from the Barrio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Barrio America
Barrio America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barrio America write by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. This book was released on 2019-11-12. Barrio America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.
Where the Sidewalks Meet
Where the Sidewalks Meet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Where the Sidewalks Meet write by Harold J. Recinos. This book was released on 2021-12-23. Where the Sidewalks Meet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recinos’s love for poetry began on the streets of the South Bronx and the experience of being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on them. On the streets, Recinos discovered a world of extreme poverty and drugs, until four years later he was taken into the family of a White Presbyterian minister and guided back into school. In graduate school in New York City, Recinos befriended the Nuyorican poets the late Miguel Piñero and Pedro Pietri who encouraged him to write and read poetry at the Nuyorican poets café. In Where the Sidewalks Meet, Recinos uses poetry like graffiti on public culture, to make references to the invisible in plain sight, and talk about border crossings. These poems delicately string together the disregarded world of excluded, muted, and rejected human beings and “shouts out the names” of those the world only cares to look at sideways.
Voices on the Corner
Voices on the Corner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voices on the Corner write by Harold J. Recinos. This book was released on 2015-11-06. Voices on the Corner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had discovered the God of the oppressed while active in civil rights marches in the 60s. The minister took Recinos into his family, helped him kick a heroin habit, and enrolled him in school. Voices on the Corner documents life at the edges of American society in ways that are both personal and universal in the human experience. The poems provide a fresh insight into the existential experiences of people excluded from mainstream society. In a celebration of dazzling texture, poems here address issues of police brutality, gun violence, immigrants' rights, the blighted urban landscape, death, hunger, religious violence, drug addiction, pluralism, spirituality, family life, hope, and the pulse of everyday life in overlooked places.
Any Small Goodness
Any Small Goodness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Any Small Goodness write by Tony Johnston. This book was released on 2001. Any Small Goodness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor.
