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Author(s): Seth Asumah, John Marah
Africana Studies: Beyond Race, Class, and Culture reflects a wide variety of topics regarding Africana Studies and addresses how Africana Studies are affected by a changing global “village.” The readings contribute a critical study of African people from many different points of view, each important in their own right.
Author(s): Duane Galloway, Robin Satterwhite, Janet Brooks
Unique in its selection of essays, song lyrics, and fiction excerpts, Humanities, Society and Technology: Living with Change explores the impact of technology on humans and society by written expression. From the days of the Cuneiform tablets, to the Industrial Revolution, through today and even a look beyond, this text encourages readers to analyze and think critically about technology’s impact on society. Ethical questions regarding science and medicine are explored as are the perils of technological advancements.
Author(s): Michael W. Schwartz
Whether we are aware of it or not, every utterance we produce is an expression of who we are as individuals and what we believe.
When we begin the process of learning an additional language, we are not only learning a new linguistic code (basic vocabulary and structures) that allow us to ask for directions, to shop for clothes, or to interact with a teacher, we are having to relearn how to be.
Author(s): Jose Amaro Hernandez, DRH Publishing Inc
A product of the authors 44 years of consistent community activity and government service, The Limits of Social Change: The Case of a Mexican American Community is intended for college students in Chicano Studies and related areas, political science, urban studies, and history classes.
This is a case study of the Mexican American community of San Fernando, a small city that has been the heart of Southern California’s progressive forces changing the city’s political landscape into a political base of Mexican Americans.
Author(s): Marco Portales
President James K. Polk and Congress declared war on Mexico in 1846, ten years after the Alamo. Two years later, the U.S. took 55 percent of Mexico’s land, including California, Arizona, New Mexico, and the southern parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. Mexicans living in the Southwest became Mexican Americans in 1849. In Mexico, people were impoverished, enjoyed few liberties, had no public school system, and lacked infrastructural amenities. In an effort to take over its rich resources, France forced Mexico into another war in the early 1860s.
Author(s): Andrew Rosa
Many Rivers to Cross provides a meticulously researched and outstanding foray to learning and understanding the complex formation of African American experiences that begins with pre-colonial Africa and ends with the American Civil War. Unlike other textbooks, Many Rivers to Cross helps us to understand how deep these rivers flow! The book offers readers access to important primary and historically rich documents that correspond to various important moments and periods. Such access allows readers to generate their own interpretations and generate a critical analysis that cr
