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  • Becoming Mexican American

    Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945

    by George J. Sanchez ...
    Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sánchez explores the process by ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Becoming Mexican American

    Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945

    by George J. Sanchez ...
    Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sánchez explores the process by ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Boyle Heights

    How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy

    by George J. Sánchez ...
    Series Book 59 - American Crossroads
    The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood.“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”—George J. SánchezThe vision for America’s cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the "great melting pot." That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districts ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Sky That Sings

    by Anita Sanchez, George Steele ...
    Illustrated by Emily Mendoza ...
    Mia, a blind girl who enjoys identifying birds by their distinct calls and songs, leads her aunt through the park on a bird-listening adventure!Mia and her tía are spending a sunny afternoon at the park bird-listening! Some people enjoy bird-watching but as a blind person, Mia uses her other senses to identify different birds by their unique calls and songs. She calls it bird-listening.Mia loves ... Read more

    $29.54 CAD

  • Martial Arts in Latin Societies

    Edited by Augusto Rembrandt Rodríguez-Sánchez, Joaquín Piedra, George Jennings ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This is the first book to explore martial arts and combat sports in Latin societies. Covering well-known and rarely studied forms of fighting systems, it considers how the schools of thought, organisation, and stylistics of martial arts can shine new light on the culture, history, and social issues of Latin countries and postcolonial societies.Featuring the work of leading international martial ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Building Collective Leadership for Culture Change

    Stories of Relational Organizing on Campus and Beyond

    by Maria Avila ...
    Series series Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices
    Building Collective Leadership for Culture Change shows how five community engagement research projects in the greater Los Angeles area were able to create more collaborative and participatory cultures in their academic institutions and nonacademic settings by using community organizing, research in action, and narrative inquiry. These projects focused on incorporating civic engagement into the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Beyond Alliances

    The Jewish Role in Reshaping the Racial Landscape of Southern California

    Edited by George J. Sanchez, Bruce Zuckerman ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    This volume focuses on the special role that Jews played in reshaping the racial landscape of southern California in the twentieth century. Rather than considering this issue in terms of broad analyses of organizations or communities, each contribution instead approaches it by examining the activity of a single Jewish individual, and how he or she navigated the social terrain of a changing ... Read more

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    by Matthias Röhrig Assunção ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
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  • Radical Care

    Leading for Justice in Urban Schools

    by Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen ...
    Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • City of Quartz

    Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This new edition of the visionary social history of Los Angeles is “as central to the L.A. canon as anything that . . . Joan Didion wrote in the seventies” (New Yorker).No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, “Los Angeles brings it all together.” To detractors, L.A. is a sunlit mortuary where “you can rot without feeling it.” To Mike Davis, the author of this ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • Stahl's Deprescriber's Guide

    by Jeffrey R. Strawn, Stephen M. Stahl ...
    For decades, psychiatry has focused on initiating treatment—which medication to prescribe, in what dose, and for how long. But what happens when treatment needs to stop? How a medication is stopped is just as important as how it is started, and abrupt discontinuation can lead to unnecessary suffering, relapse, and often preventable withdrawal symptoms. Based on the principles of the bestselling ... Read more

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  • The Moral Imperative of School Leadership

    Edited by Michael Fullan ...
    Michael Fullan examines themoral purpose of school leadership and its critical role in "changing the context" in which the principalship is embedded.Michael Fullan examines themoral purpose of school leadership and its critical role in "changing the context" in which the principalship is embedded. ... Read more

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