El Barrio Remembered
Title | El Barrio Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Lopez |
Publisher | Page Publishing Inc |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2022-01-04 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1662458096 |
These stories depict true occurrences reflecting how teenagers dealt with the changes arising during these crucial times in our nation's history. A new world was arising and we had a front-row seat to political changes as well as racial and gender issues. As we traversed these issues of family, culture, and racism, we were bolstered by such things as music and art as well as religion and trying desperately to hold on to our traditional values. We clung to one another and our families as we made our way in an ever-changing landscape; and we progressed, we innovated, we adapted, and succeeded in becoming part of the mosaic that became New York City.
El Barrio Remembered
Title | El Barrio Remembered PDF eBook |
Author | Victor López |
Publisher | Page Publishing, Incorporated |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2021-10-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781662458088 |
These stories depict true occurrences reflecting how teenagers dealt with the changes arising during these crucial times in our nation's history. A new world was arising and we had a front-row seat to political changes as well as racial and gender issues. As we traversed these issues of family, culture, and racism, we were bolstered by such things as music and art as well as religion and trying desperately to hold on to our traditional values. We clung to one another and our families as we made our way in an ever-changing landscape; and we progressed, we innovated, we adapted, and succeeded in becoming part of the mosaic that became New York City.
All for the Better
Title | All for the Better PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholasa Mohr |
Publisher | Raintree |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
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When 11-year-old Evelina leaves Puerto Rico to live with an aunt in New York City, she must make many adjustments in her life.
Beyond El Barrio
Title | Beyond El Barrio PDF eBook |
Author | Gina M. Pérez |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2010-10-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0814768008 |
Freighted with meaning, “el barrio” is both place and metaphor for Latino populations in the United States. Though it has symbolized both marginalization and robust and empowered communities, the construct of el barrio has often reproduced static understandings of Latino life; they fail to account for recent demographic shifts in urban centers such as New York, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles, and in areas outside of these historic communities. Beyond El Barrio features new scholarship that critically interrogates how Latinos are portrayed in media, public policy and popular culture, as well as the material conditions in which different Latina/o groups build meaningful communities both within and across national affiliations. Drawing from history, media studies, cultural studies, and anthropology, the contributors illustrate how despite the hypervisibility of Latinos and Latin American immigrants in recent political debates and popular culture, the daily lives of America’s new “majority minority” remain largely invisible and mischaracterized. Taken together, these essays provide analyses that not only defy stubborn stereotypes, but also present novel narratives of Latina/o communities that do not fit within recognizable categories. In this way, this book helps us to move “beyond el barrio”: beyond stereotype and stigmatizing tropes, as well as nostalgic and uncritical portraits of complex and heterogeneous range of Latina/o lives.
Barrio
Title | Barrio PDF eBook |
Author | George Ancona |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780152010485 |
Welcome to José's neighborhood. In his barrio, people speak an easy mix of Spanish and English and sometimes even Chinese. The masked revelry of Halloween leads into the festive remembrances of the Day of the Dead. And murals on the walls and buildings sing out the stories of the people who live here. As familiar as any neighborhood yet as strange as a foreign country, Jose's barrio isn't in Mexico or Argentina--it's in San Francisco. Award-winning author and photographer George Ancona follows José through a season in the barrio, and in the process gives readers a glimpse of a community as rich and varied as America itself.
Stories from El Barrio
Title | Stories from El Barrio PDF eBook |
Author | Piri Thomas |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Fiction |
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Piri Thomas, who reached millions of readers with his bestselling autobiography, "Down These Mean Streets," now gives readers of all ages a vivid slice of the life in El Barrioa place where people face their problems with energy, ingenuity and love. He draws vivid stories from his past experiences and makes us feel what it means to be poor and proud and generous; to be streetwise and full of bravado but frightened, too; to struggle to go straight; to be ashamed of being ashamed; to dream. Speaking in the voice of the streets and from his heart, Piri captures the spirit, the laughter and the hope of his people.
Champion of the Barrio
Title | Champion of the Barrio PDF eBook |
Author | R. Gaines Baty |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015-02-09 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1623492661 |
Buryl Baty (1924–1954) was a winning athlete, coach, builder of men, and an early pioneer in the fight against bigotry. In 1950, Baty became head football coach at Bowie High School in El Paso and quickly inspired his athletes, all Mexican Americans from the Segundo Barrio, with his winning ways and his personal stand against the era’s extreme, deep-seated bigotry—to which they were subjected. However, just as the team was in a position to win a third district title in 1954, they were jolted by an unthinkable tragedy that turned their world upside down. Later, as mature adults, these players realized that Coach Baty had helped mold them into honorable and successful men, and forty-four years after the coach’s death, they dedicated their high school stadium in his name. In 2013, Baty was inducted posthumously into the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame. In this poignant memoir, R. Gaines Baty also describes his own journey to get to know his father. Coach Baty’s life story is portrayed from the perspectives of nearly one hundred individuals who knew him, in addition to many documented facts and news reports.