Mexican Lives - 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 Mexican Lives write by Judith Adler Hellman. This book was released on 1995. Mexican Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A portrait of the Mexican experience illuminates such topics as NAFTA, political assassinations, the Chiapas rebellion, and national election fraud, and considers the impact of these events on the bordering United States. Reprint.
Mexican Americans and the Environment
Mexican Americans and the Environment - 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 Mexican Americans and the Environment write by Devon G. Peña. This book was released on 2022-09-13. Mexican Americans and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life—activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others—who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteño land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Peña contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.
We Heard It When We Were Young
We Heard It When We Were Young - 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 We Heard It When We Were Young write by Chuy Renteria. This book was released on 2021-11. We Heard It When We Were Young available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We Heard It When We Were Young tells the story of a young boy, first-generation Mexican American, who is torn between cultures: between immigrant parents trying to acclimate to midwestern life and a town that is, by turns, supportive and disturbingly antagonistic.
Mexican Enough
Mexican Enough - 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 Mexican Enough write by Stephanie Elizondo Griest. This book was released on 2008-08-05. Mexican Enough available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Growing up in a half-white, half-brown town and family in South Texas, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cultural identity. Upon turning thirty, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do some root-searching and stumbled upon a social movement that shook the nation to its core. Mexican Enough chronicles her adventures rumbling with luchadores (professional wrestlers), marching with rebel teachers in Oaxaca, investigating the murder of a prominent gay activist, and sneaking into a prison to meet with indigenous resistance fighters. She also visits families of the undocumented workers she befriended back home. Travel mates include a Polish thief, a Border Patrol agent, and a sultry dominatrix. Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the lessons to be learned along the way.
Life in Mexico
Life in Mexico - 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 Life in Mexico write by Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca. This book was released on 1982-09-30. Life in Mexico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico–from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help–Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.
