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This book reveals what young people are thinking and feeling. Expressing a range of emotions from hope to immense sadness, students write about family, identity, and community. With this project, students engage in both the critical process of self-reflection and the experience of connecting with the larger world. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Crime and Social Justice Associates on March 22, 1993. The length of the article is 2490 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Increasing automation in industrial production is causing adverse economic and policy shifts for the disadvantaged class. Latinos suffer the same impoverishment and police oppression that afflicts African Americans and other minority groups. Those dispossessed must unite across racial, national and language barriers to respond to the economic and social crisis. Latinos, as the fastest-growing population, have an important role in the struggle.

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Title: "Together, forever, tonight": Latinos and social revolution in the United States. (Rethinking Race)
Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publication: Social Justice (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1993
Publisher: Crime and Social Justice Associates
Volume: v20Issue: n1-2Page: p157(6)

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Reluctantly, young Monchi becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Progressive, published by The Progressive, Inc. on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1374 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Grace, power and beauty: a profile of Lila Downs.
Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publication: The Progressive (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: The Progressive, Inc.
Volume: 69Issue: 5Page: 40(2)

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This digital document is an article from The Progressive, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1978 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Laura isn't enough: George's gang policy shows the administration's true colors.(Laura Bush)
Author: Luis J. Rodriguez
Publication: The Progressive (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 69Issue: 8Page: 24(4)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tomás Rivera, Ana Castillo, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Rodolfo Gonzales, Alurista, Luis J. Rodriguez, Rigoberto González, M. Miriam Herrera, José Montoya, Alfred Arteaga, Carlos Cumpián, Luis A. López. Excerpt:Alfred Arteaga (1950-July 4, 2008) was a Chicano poet, writer, and scholar. Biography Arteaga was born in East Los Angeles and raised in Whittier, California. He attended Monte Vista High School which has since been converted to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's academy. He received a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Columbia University in 1974, and a master's degree and doctorate in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1977-87, Arteaga taught as an instructor of Mexican American Studies and English at San José City College. He served as an assistant professor of English at the University of Houston from 1987-90. Arteaga originally joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor of English and was tenured in the Department of Ethnic Studies in 1998. He became a Professor in 2008. His studies and teaching focused on the contributions of contemporary Chicano literature and music to American culture. He drew attention to the hybrid culture of Chicano writers by focusing on their hybrid use of language. He is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship (1993-94), a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry (1995), and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (1998). Bibliography Poetry Creative Non-Fiction Essays See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Alurista Alurista is the nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia (born August 8, 1947), a Chicano poet a... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 958 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Música Chicana.(Luis J. Rodríguez)(Reseña de libro)
Author: José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 7Issue: 83Page: 75(2)

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Luis J. Rodriguez tells it like it is.
Luis J Rodrigues, was on the today show a few months ago talking about his life. He goes around the country talking to kids, in hopes they will stay out of gangs.He tells it like it is, holds nothing back.
Excellent book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on June 11, 2004. The length of the article is 518 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Las tribulaciones de Zapatero ante el 13-J.(José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero)(elecciones parlamentarias europeas)
Author: Javier Arnal
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 11, 2004
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: 1008Page: 35(1)

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The anthology collects the poetry of San Diego students, along with poems by famous guest poets, read at the Border Voices Poetry Fair held March 24, 2006 at San Diego State University. ... Read more