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Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants: A Texas History

Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants: A Texas History

Martha Menchaca

Martha Menchaca's groundbreaking research examines such facets as U.S.-Mexico relations following the U.S. Civil War and the schisms created by Mexican abolitionists; the anti-immigration stance that marked many suffragist appeals; the ...
The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of ...

The Mexican Outsiders: A Community History of ...

Martha Menchaca

In this study, covering the Spanish colonial period to the present day, Martha Menchaca delves deeply into interethnic relations in Santa Paula, California, to document how the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin ...
Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, ...

Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, ...

Martha Menchaca

Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from prehispanic times to the present.
Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science

Cuban Journal of Agricultural Science

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R.O. Martinez and M.A. Menchaca 25 The effect of the grazing schedule and concentrate fractioning on the performance of Holstein cows. R. Garcia Lopez, R. Ruiz, A. Elias, M.A. Menchaca and E. Gomez 105 A study on the habit of selection ...
Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas ...

Recollections of a Tejano Life: Antonio Menchaca in Texas ...

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Revealing how Tejanos perceived themselves and the revolutionary events that defined them, this wonderfully edited volume presents Menchaca’s remembrances of such diverse figures as Antonio López de Santa Anna, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, ...
Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, ...

Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, ...

Martha Menchaca

"In this book it is my intent to write about the Mexican American people's Indian, White, and Black racial history.
Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature

Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature

Sheila Marie Contreras

26. Gloria Anzaldúa acknowledges this feature of Chicana/o history repeatedly in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. More recently, Martha Menchaca has conducted an auto-ethnographic examination of the presence, and absence, ...
Latino Politics in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies and ...

Latino Politics in Massachusetts: Struggles, Strategies and ...

Carol Hardy-Fanta

Chapter 1 in Barrio Ballots: Latino Politics in the 1990 Elections, edited by Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Martha Menchaca, and Louis DeSipio, 1-41. Boulder, CO : Westview Press. . (1996). "Latinos and the 1992 Elections: A National Perspective.
The Politics of Dependency: US Reliance on Mexican Oil and ...

The Politics of Dependency: US Reliance on Mexican Oil and ...

Martha Menchaca

Mexico’s economic dependence on the United States is well-known, but The Politics of Dependency makes a compelling case that the United States is also economically dependent on Mexico.
Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the ...

Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the ...

James G. Gimpel

Boulder: Westview. de la Garza, Rodolfo. and Louis DeSipio. 1994. "Overview: the link between individuals and electoral institutions in five Latino neighborhoods." In Barrio Ballots, edited by Rodolfo De La Garza, Martha Menchaca. and Louis ...
Martha Stewart: A Biography

Martha Stewart: A Biography

Joann F. Price

In her Newsweek article, Laura Shapiro described Martha as “the Barbara Cartland (well-known British romance author) of food, and she has a succinct explanation for her phenomenal success—“My ideas are good,” she (Martha) states.
Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Agnes De Mille

The author, a celebrated choreographer and a friend of Martha Graham for more than sixty years, traces Graham's life and career and discusses her training as a student, her early successes, and her development of a new language of dance
Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Claudie Servian

201 Martha Graham, in Alice Helpern, op., cit., p. 9. « I wanted significant movement, I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid. I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge. » 202 Id., Ibid., p.215. 203 Martha Graham ...
The American descendants of Henry Luce, 1640 to 1978

The American descendants of Henry Luce, 1640 to 1978

Martha Fletcher McCourt

MARTHA'S VINEYARD-16<*0-1978" by Martha Fletcher McCourt, has been donated free of charge to the fDllouing libraries and historical societies: 1. The GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS— sent to the Historian ...
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Jan Greenberg

A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman ...
Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong

Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong

Martha Nochimson

2007 by Martha P. Nochimson blackwell publishing 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Martha P. Nochimson to be ...
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha ...

Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha ...

Martha Harris

This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and together over many years.
Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria

Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria

Kyra E. Hicks

Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria is the true story of Martha Ann Ricks, an ex-slave who spent fifty years saving spare coins to fulfill her dream of meeting the Queen of England.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

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Martha Fletcher McCourt. Vol I. The American Descendants of Rev. John Smith of Martha's Vineyard- Those who Went West. 1976. Vol. II. Martha Fletcher McCourt. Tillamook History a Sequel to Tillamook Memories. Lila V. Cooper Boge. 1975 ...
Color Atlas and Synopsis of Womens Cardiovascular Health

Color Atlas and Synopsis of Womens Cardiovascular Health

Martha Gulati

... .1 5 Nkechinyere Ijioma, MBBS, and Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA 1 Heart Disease in Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Kavita Sharma, MD, and Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA 2 Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease ...
Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Martha E. Kropf

Kimball, David C. and Martha Kropf. Forthcoming. “Voter Competence with Cumulative Voting.” Social Science Quarterly. Kimball, David C., Martha Kropf and Lindsay Battles. 2006. “Helping America Vote? Election Administration, Partisanship ...
Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-scientific Approaches to ...

Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-scientific Approaches to ...

Philip Francis Esler

Lazarus, Martha, and Mary: reframing the discussion -- Social identity and prototypes: a social-scientific model for historical and theological application -- Johannine processing of the past in relation to Lazarus, Martha, and Mary -- ...
Discovering Martha

Discovering Martha

Joanne Rocklin

Does the mysterious purple guitar possess magic or does learning to play it merely motivate Martha, a sixth-grader going through an awkward stage, to change her life a little?
Ramus, Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature

Ramus, Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature

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... the age of the former Jupiter 26 MARTHA MALAMUD Martha Malamud.
Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach

Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach

Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international.
Martha's Journey

Martha's Journey

Maureen Lee

Martha's journey there will be a tough one, but with courage and the support of her friends and family, it will be the most important undertaking of her life.
Just Desserts -- Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography

Just Desserts -- Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography

Jerry Oppenheimer

Domestic Goddess, Martha Stewart, once considered the epitome of perfection, has done a one-eighty.
Political Emotions

Political Emotions

Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good?

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