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Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society

Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society

Leo R. Chavez

Janice E. Stockard & George Spindler, CSCA Series Coeditors, 2006 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Leo R. Chavez was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico. His family has a long history in New Mexico. Chavez is a thirteenth—generation New Mexican ...
Handbook of South American Archaeology

Handbook of South American Archaeology

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These styles were categorized by Karen and Sergio Chavez with the Quechua term, "Yaya-Mama" (K. Chavez 1988; S. Chavez and K. Chavez 1975); Portugal Ortiz used the Aymara term "Pa'Ajano" (1981) as did Browman writing "Pajano" ...
Ancient South America

Ancient South America

Karen Olsen Bruhns

186 12.2 Site of Pucara, Peru (photograph courtesy of Karen Mohr Chavez and Sergio Chavez) 187 12.3 Kidder Temple, Pucara (photograph courtesy of Karen Mohr Chavez and Sergio Chavez) 188 12.4 Pucara-style figure 189 12.5 Recuay  ...
The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez

The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez

Angelico Chavez

This anthology is the first collection of fiction published since 1957 by one of New Mexico's leading men of letters.
The migrant workers and Cesar Chavez

The migrant workers and Cesar Chavez

Jan Young

Describes the causes and events of the California grape picker's strike and the role of Cesar Chavez in its successful resolution.
La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue

La Conquistadora: The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue

Angelico Chavez

Fray Angelico Chavez has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken.
Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

Ginger Wadsworth

During the Great Depression, many people had to work long hours and were barely paid enough to survive. Cesar Chavez felt this treatment was unfair and worked to secure more rights.
Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez

Lola M. Schaefer

Simple text and photographs depict the life of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.
Chávez: A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico

Chávez: A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico

Angelico Chavez

Following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Chvez performed the difficult duties of an isolated back-country pastor, an army chaplain in World War II, and became an author of note, as well as something of an artist and muralist ...
Recovering the U. S Hispanic Literary Heritage Series: ...

Recovering the U. S Hispanic Literary Heritage Series: ...

Angelico Chavez

This collection contains poems composed during the years 1925 through 1932 and gathered privately by the poet Fray (or Friar) Angélico Chávez of New Mexico who gained wide renown as an artist and man of letters.
Cesar Chavez: A Photo-illustrated Biography

Cesar Chavez: A Photo-illustrated Biography

Lucile Davis

Presents the biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.
Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change

Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change

Brenda Haugen

Presents the life of Cesar Chavez, focusing primarily on his work organizing the National Farm Workers Association and working for improved working and living conditions for all Mexican Americans.
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium

Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium

Leo Strauss

The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than thirty years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did.
Cesar Chavez: Champion of Workers

Cesar Chavez: Champion of Workers

Tyler Schumacher

"A brief introduction to the life of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American activist who founded the first successful farm workers' union in the United States"--Provided by publisher.
César Chávez

César Chávez

Elizabeth Hudson-Goff

Elizabeth Hudson-Goff, Kerri O'Hern, Jonatha A. Brown. Chávez began to believe that farm workers did not have to live in terrible conditions. They could organize and work together. Poor people could change their own lives! In i952, the CSO ...
Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books

Teaching With Favorite Leo Lionni Books

Kathleen M. Hollenbeck

(From Between Worlds: The Autobiography of Leo Lionni. Knopf, 1997, pp. 12-13 ) In fact, Leo Lionni's bedroom itself might have been the birthplace. In cages and containers across the room lived snails, caterpillars, fish, frogs, and mice that ...
The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing ...

The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing ...

Luis D. Leon

The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez: Crossing Religious Borders maps and challenges many of the mythologies that surround the late iconic labor leader.
Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca

Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca

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The YatjoMama Religious Tradition as an Antecedent of Tiwanaku, Sergio Chavez 3,1; Map concept by Karen and Sergio Chavez, drawn by Sue Cary, Melissa Nethery, and Jennifer Shonrz; 3.2-4^ Drawings and photos by Karen and Sergio ...
Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and ...

Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and ...

Sergio Chávez

In Border Lives, Sergio Chávez moves past Tijuana's notorious image as a hub of sex, drugs, and crime to tell the story of the diverse group of individuals who use both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border as a resource to construct their ...
Homos

Homos

Leo Bersani

Reviews of this book: "Perhaps no one since Leo Bersani in 'Is the Rectum a Grave?' has written so convincingly against the danger of homosexual assimilation as Leo Bersani in Homos.
Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient ...

Heads of State: Icons, Power, and Politics in the Ancient ...

Denise Y Arnold

35–69. Eds. Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002). Courtesy of Sergio Chávez. From Sergio Chávez (2002:41). (Marx 1973 [1894], Vol. 3:337–38). So, for Marx, fetishism would seem ...
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes

Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes

Juan Felipe Herrera

In this volume: Adelina Otero-Warren, Bernardo de Galvez, Cesar Chavez, David Farragut, Dennis Chavez, Desi Arnaz, Dolores Huerta, Ellen Ochoa, Helen Rodríguez Trías, Hero Street USA, Ignacio Lozano, Jaime Escalante, Joan Baez, Judy Baca, ...
Good Night, Leo: A Swashbuckling Bedtime Adventure

Good Night, Leo: A Swashbuckling Bedtime Adventure

Charise Mericle Harper

IT’S TIME FOR BED, and Leo must get out of his pirate costume and into his pjs, and as he removes each item of clothing, Leo fondly says good night. (“Good night, green bandana .
小雷和波波生活故事: 第一輯

小雷和波波生活故事: 第一輯

Helen Oxenbury

A collection of 3 of Helen Oxenbury illustrated stories of Leo et Popi: Leo et Popi chez le docteur (Leo and Popi go to the doctor), Le toboggan (The slide), and Popi perdu et retrouv (Lost and Found Popi).
Reading with Leo Lionni (Author Study) Gr. 1-2

Reading with Leo Lionni (Author Study) Gr. 1-2

Natalie Regier

Kids love Leo Lionni's books because they entertain and deal with emotions, feelings and issues that are important to kids, all at the same time. Our author study is designed to explore the award winning books and artwork of Leo Lionni.
At Long Last Leo

At Long Last Leo

Mark Stein

THE STORY: Leo Beagle has recently completed a 638-page manifesto on harmony for humanity which he hopes will be the impetus for the next major social movement for the world.
Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism

Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism

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Panitch, Leo and Sam Gindin (2003) 'Global Capitalism and American empire' in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds) The New imperial Challenge: Socialist Register 2004 (London: Merlin), 1– 42. Panitch, Leo and Sam Gindin (2004) ' Finance ...
Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays

Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays

Leo Bersani

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work.
Sir Alf

Sir Alf

Leo McKinstry

By placing Ramsey in an historical context, award-winning author Leo McKinstry provides a thought-provoking insight into the world of professional football and the fabric of British society over the span of his life.

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