La Otra Cara de America: Historias de los Immigrantes Latinoamericanos Que Estan Cambiando A Estados Unidos

Prasad Khanolkar (Author)

Passages of Play in Urban India: People, Media, Objects and Spaces in Mumbai's Slum Localities

This book offers a new way of thinking about 'slums' and southern cities based on the everyday li

Ijeoma Oluo (Author)

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

4,NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discussed the ways in which white male supremacy has had an impact on our systems, our culture, and our lives throughout American history. But now that we better understand these systems of oppression, the question is this: What can we do about them?With Be A Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--and How You Can, Too, Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems--like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more--she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change ...

Jorge Duany (Author)

Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)

7,In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jorge Duany unravels the fascinating and turbulent past and present of an island that is politically and economically tied to the United States, yet culturally distinct. Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a US Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the US has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much of its recent history. Though they are US citizens, Puerto Ricans do not have their own voting representatives in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections (although they are able to participate in the primaries). In recent years, Puerto Rico's colossal public debt sparked an economic crisis that catapulted it onto the national stage and intensified the exodus to the US, bringing to the fore many of the unresolved remnants of its colonial history. In the second edition of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jorge Duany provides a succinct, authoritative introduction to the island's rich history, culture, politics, and economy, as well as its ...