Mormon Women at the Crossroads

Mormon Women at the Crossroads
Title Mormon Women at the Crossroads PDF eBook
Author Caroline Kline
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Pages 335
Release 2022-06-28
Genre Religion
ISBN 0252053354

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Winner of the Mormon History Association Best International Book Award The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to contend with longstanding tensions surrounding gender and race. Yet women of color in the United States and across the Global South adopt and adapt the faith to their contexts, many sharing the high level of satisfaction expressed by Latter-day Saints in general. Caroline Kline explores the ways Latter-day Saint women of color in Mexico, Botswana, and the United States navigate gender norms, but also how their moral priorities and actions challenge Western feminist assumptions. Kline analyzes these traditional religious women through non-oppressive connectedness, a worldview that blends elements of female empowerment and liberation with a broader focus on fostering positive and productive relationships in different realms. Even as members of a patriarchal institution, the women feel a sense of liberation that empowers them to work against oppression and against alienation from both God and other human beings. Vivid and groundbreaking, Mormon Women at the Crossroads merges interviews with theory to offer a rare discussion of Latter-day Saint women from a global perspective.

Ethnic Recordings in America

Ethnic Recordings in America
Title Ethnic Recordings in America PDF eBook
Author American Folklife Center
Publisher
Pages 292
Release 1982
Genre Folk music
ISBN

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Composing Storylines of Possibilities

Composing Storylines of Possibilities
Title Composing Storylines of Possibilities PDF eBook
Author Martha J. Strickland
Publisher IAP
Pages 254
Release 2022-01-01
Genre Education
ISBN 1648027172

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In this book, internationally migrant families invite us to listen to the storylines of their mostly muted voices as they navigate the local schools in their new cultural context. They call us to hear them as they grapple with issues they encounter. They implore us to feel like an outsider and see the school as a foreign culture with language and communication barriers. The book is organized to enhance this carework. Each chapter begins with a vignette that includes the voices of one or more members of international migrating families, while introducing the context of the chapter. At the end of each chapter readers will find specific implications to consider. These are constructed with preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and educational administrators in mind. As you read each chapter, there is the call for school transformation. The families in this book entreat school personnel to engage with international migrant families and to embrace a risk and resilience model as we strive together for success. These storylines challenge us to examine our personal storylines for biases and deficit understandings and call us all to purposefully rewrite these in the spirit of possibilities as the families in this book have embodied for us.

Barrio Hollywood

Barrio Hollywood
Title Barrio Hollywood PDF eBook
Author Elaine Romero
Publisher Samuel French, Inc.
Pages 85
Release 2008
Genre Hispanic American families
ISBN 0573663904

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En Barrio Hollywood, un tenso drama familiar, un joven boxeador México-americano sueña con pelear para encontrar una salida a la difícil situación económica de su familia en el barrio. Su hermana, una apasionada bailarina de ballet folklórico y dedicada artista cultural, sueña con ser dueña de su propio estudio de baile para pasar sus tradiciones mexicanas a las próximas generaciones. Su excéntrica madre sueña con tomar sus ganancias del póker y tomar unas largas vacaciones en las Islas Canarias. Los sueños familiares se detienen cuando el joven boxeador sufre una lesión brutal en la cabeza en el ring de boxeo. Mientras la condición de su hermano empeora y su amor por el doctor americano crece inesperadamente, la bailarina y su familia aprenden que tan lejos pueden ir en el nombre del amor. In Barrio Hollywood, a tense family drama, a young Mexican-American boxer dreams of fighting his way out of his family¿s economic plight in his barrio neighborhood. His sister, a passionate ballet folklórico dancer and dedicated cultural artist, dreams of owning her own dance studio to pass her Mexican traditions on to another generation. Their flamboyant mother dreams of taking her poker winnings and going on an extended vacation to the Canary Islands. The family¿s dreams are deferred when the young boxer sustains a brutal head injury in the boxing ring. As her brother¿s condition worsens, and as she falls unexpectedly in love with a white doctor from out-of-state, the dancer and her family learn how far they are willing to go in the name of love.

Una vez fui tú (Once I Was You Spanish Edition)

Una vez fui tú (Once I Was You Spanish Edition)
Title Una vez fui tú (Once I Was You Spanish Edition) PDF eBook
Author Maria Hinojosa
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 400
Release 2020-09-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1982135212

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“El punto de vista de María es poderoso y vital. Hace años, cuando In the Heights empezaba a presentarse en teatros off-Broadway, María corrió la voz en nuestra comunidad para que apoyáramos este nuevo musical que trataba sobre nuestros vecindarios. Ella ha sido una campeona de nuestros triunfos, una crítica de nuestros detractores y una fuerza clave para enfrentar y corregir los errores de nuestra sociedad. Cuando María habla, estoy listo para escuchar y aprender de ella.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda La periodista ganadora de cuatro premios Emmy y presentadora de Latino USA de NPR, María Hinojosa, cuenta la historia de la inmigración en los Estados Unidos a través de las experiencias de su familia y décadas de hacer reportajes, con lo cual crea un riguroso retrato de un país en crisis. María Hinojosa es una periodista galardonada que ha colaborado con las cadenas más respetadas y se ha distinguido por realizar reportajes con un toque humano. En estas memorias escritas con gran belleza, nos relata la historia de la política de inmigración de los EE.UU. que nos ha llevado al punto en que estamos hoy, al mismo tiempo que nos comparte su historia profundamente personal. Durante treinta años, María Hinojosa ha informado sobre historias y comunidades en los Estados Unidos que a menudo son ignoradas por los principales medios de comunicación. La autora de bestsellers Julia Álvarez la ha llamado “una de las líderes culturales más importantes, respetadas y queridas de la comunidad Latinx”. En Una vez fui tú, María nos comparte su experiencia personal de haber crecido como mexicanoamericana en el sur de Chicago y documentar el páramo existencial de los campos de detención de inmigrantes para los medios de comunicación que a menudo cuestionaban su trabajo. En estas páginas, María ofrece un relato personal y revelador de cómo la retórica en torno a la inmigración no solo ha influido en las actitudes de los estadounidenses hacia los extranjeros, sino que también ha permitido la negligencia intencional y el lucro a expensas de las poblaciones más vulnerables de nuestro país, lo que ha propiciado el sistema resquebrajado que tenemos hoy en día. Estas memorias honestas y estremecedoras crean un vívido retrato de cómo llegamos aquí y lo que significa ser una superviviente, una feminista, una ciudadana y una periodista que hace valer su propia voz mientras lucha por la verdad. Una vez fui tú es un llamado urgente a los compatriotas estadounidenses para que abran los ojos a la crisis de la inmigración y entiendan que nos afecta a todos. También disponible en inglés como Once I Was You.

Invisible Women

Invisible Women
Title Invisible Women PDF eBook
Author Maria Alex Lopez
Publisher Palibrio
Pages 191
Release 2013-09-26
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1463355912

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This book is based on a phenomenological study on undocumented Mexican immigrant mothers of high school students who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years and received social services. Most of these mothers have emigrated from rural areas of the central and southern Mexican States of Guanajuato, Michoacan, Queretaro, among others. According to the participants, socio-economic conditions forced them to leave their homelands hoping to find a better life in the U.S.

Sexile = Sexilio

Sexile = Sexilio
Title Sexile = Sexilio PDF eBook
Author Jimmy Lam
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 133
Release 2017-06-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1543421776

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This book is a collection of poetry, memoires, essays, literary criticisms, and short stories.