[PDF] In Search Of History Carlos E Castaneda And The Mexican American Experience eBook

Author : Matt S. Meier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313088608

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Mexican Americans are rapidly becoming the largest minority in the United States, playing a vital role in the culture of the American Southwest and beyond. This A-to-Z guide offers comprehensive coverage of the Mexican American experience. Entries range from figures such as Corky Gonzales, Joan Baez, and Nancy Lopez to general entries on bilingual education, assimilation, border culture, and southwestern agriculture. Court cases, politics, and events such as the Delano Grape Strike all receive full coverage, while the definitions and significance of terms such as coyote and Tejano are provided in shorter entries. Taking a historical approach, this book's topics date back to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, a radical turning point for Mexican Americans, as they lost their lands and found themselves thrust into an alien social and legal system. The entries trace Mexican Americans' experience as a small, conquered minority, their growing influence in the 20th century, and the essential roles their culture plays in the borderlands, or the American Southwest, in the 21st century.

Author : Félix Díaz Almaráz
Publisher : TAMU Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A biography of twentieth-century Hispanic historian Carlos Castaneda, discussing his humble origins, his work on behalf of the poor, his rise to prominence in the field of education, and his prolific publishing career.

Author : Emilio Zamora (ed)
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :

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Old roads, new horizons: Texas history and the new world order / David Montejano -- Occupied Texas: Bexar and Goliad, 1835-1836 / Paul D. Lack -- Mexicanos in Texas during the Civil War / Miguel Gonzalez Quiroga -- Uni.

Author : Richard Griswold del Castillo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292779135

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This historical study examines how Mexican American experiences during WWII galvanized the community’s struggle for civil rights. World War II marked a turning point for Mexican Americans that fundamentally changed their relationship to US society at large. The experiences of fighting alongside white Americans in the military, as well as working in factory jobs for wages equal to those of Anglo workers, made Mexican Americans less willing to tolerate the second-class citizenship that had been their lot before the war. Having proven their loyalty and “Americanness” during World War II, Mexican Americans began to demand the civil rights they deserved. In this book, Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard Steele investigate how the wartime experiences of Mexican Americans helped forge their civil rights consciousness and how the US government responded. The authors demonstrate, for example, that the US government “discovered” Mexican Americans during World War II and began addressing some of their problems as a way of ensuring their willingness to support the war effort. The book concludes with a selection of key essays and historical documents from the World War II period that provide a first-person perspective of Mexican American civil rights struggles.

Author : Marybeth Gasman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136976531

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The first volume in the Core Concepts of Higher Education series, The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past is a unique research methods textbook that provides students with an understanding of the processes that historians use when conducting their own research. Written primarily for graduate students in higher education programs, this book explores critical methodological issues in the history of American higher education, including race, class, gender, and sexuality. Chapters include: Reflective Exercises that combine theory and practice Research Method Tips Further Reading Suggestions. Leading historians and those at the forefront of new research explain how historical literature is discovered and written, and provide readers with the methodological approaches to conduct historical higher education research of their own.

Author : Juan Sánchez Muñoz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135236690

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Providing a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship relevant to educational issues which impact Latinos, this Handbook captures the field at this point in time. Its unique purpose and function is to profile the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary studies and theory, the volume is organized around five themes: history, theory, and methodology policies and politics language and culture teaching and learning resources and information. The Handbook of Latinos and Education is a must-have resource for educational researchers, graduate students, teacher educators, and the broad spectrum of individuals, groups, agencies, organizations and institutions sharing a common interest in and commitment to the educational issues that impact Latinos.

Author : Carlos Castaneda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1439121842

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In Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda introduces readers to this new approach for the first time and explores, as he comes to experience it himself, his own final voyage into the teachings of don Juan, sharing with us what it is like to truly “stop the world” and perceive reality on his own terms. Originally drawn to Yaqui Indian spiritual leader don Juan Matus for his knowledge of mind-altering plants, bestselling author Carlos Castaneda immersed himself in the sorcerer’s magical world entirely. Ten years after his first encounter with the shaman, Castaneda examines his field notes and comes to understand what don Juan knew all along—that these plants are merely a means to understanding the alternative realities that one cannot fully embrace on one’s own.