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Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In JAMAICA AND TAMARINDO: AFRO TRADITION IN THE HEART OF MEXICO, we meet five people to explore African heritage in Mexico City, an identity that goes beyond the color of one's skin.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What do people seek when they step into the unknown? LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE is a striking observational documentary that follows an international tour group trekking through Peru. Travelers enjoy the beauties of historic Cuzco, the mysteries of a rain forest, and the splendor of Machu Picchu; however, their interactions with Peruvians are primarily short, staged, or commodified, with few significant connections. As the tourists journey through the...
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between Spain’s Asian and American colonies. Sailing from the Philippines to Mexico and back, these Spanish trading ships also facilitated the earliest migrations and displacements of Asian peoples to the Americas. Hailing from Gujarat, Nagasaki, and many places in between, both free and enslaved Asians boarded the galleons and made the treacherous...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
CIA torture, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and other examples of U.S. military abuse, have a history. A key part of it is revealed in Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins. Through his extraordinary life and daring actions we learn about Fr. Roy Bourgeois and his struggle to find and reveal the truth about the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), and growing efforts by grassroots activists and Congress to shut it down. PBS "Global Voices"...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
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"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American,...
68) Papi's gift
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Graciela's Papi has been working in the United States for so long that she has almost forgotten his face, so when the box he promised for her seventh birthday does not arrive, she is very upset and nearly loses hope that he--and the rain--will someday return.
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In RADICAL CITIES, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving. Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of modernist...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin libros en rústica
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Presents the authors' retellings of traditional tales. Este hermoso texto tiene como objetivo mostrarles a los m s peque os del hogar las historias m s fant sticas que han pasado de generaci n en generaci n gracias a la cultura oral que a n prevalece en las abuelas de todas las familias. El libro cuenta con doce cuentos populares de la cultura, hebrea, africana, rabe, y espa ola. Cada una de ella permite conocer aquellos relatos que muchos adultos...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Filmmakers Loren and Matt Feinstein provide an eye-opening account of the downside of alternative, food-based fuel sources. Delving deep into the world of agrofuels and monocrops, they explore how the increasingly common practice of diverting food crops to the industrial production of cellulose-based fuels is devastating indigenous communities, undermining small farmers, and endangering the environment across Latin America. Turning to the promise...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Las mujeres que luchan se encuentran es una invitación a participar activamente en una conversación que está más vigente que nunca: el feminismo. En este libro, Catalina Ruiz-Navarro, una de las voces más destacadas de este movimiento en Latinoamérica, recorre, a partir de un testimonio profundamente honesto y agudo, un camino que aborda el cuerpo, el poder, la violencia, el sexo, la lucha activista y el amor. A su vez, once heroínas, entre...
73) What if Latin America ruled the world?: how the South will take the North through the 21st century
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
For too many of us, Latin America exists "below the fold," an echo barely heard beyond the roar of U.S. economics, politics, and culture; the source of little more than dance steps, mesmerizing soccer, spicy food, and questionable politics. But Latin America has been a vital part of the global community since the seventeenth century, when the Spanish silver peso became the world's first global currency instrument. Today it is home to six hundred million...
74) Latin America's democratic crusade: the transnational struggle against dictatorship, 1920s-1960s
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
" By emphasizing Latin American reformers’ decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region’s political evolution. Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the Global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who...
Publisher
Maria Farinha Filmes
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
There is a market where childhood may be traded in for anything of lesser value. Everybody knows about it, but it appears to be something easy to ignore. Brazil takes second place on a world ranking of childhood sexual exploitation cases. In an urgent investigation, journalist and Youtuber, Jout Jout; TV show host, Luciano Huck; doctor and author Dráuzio Varella and Gail Dines, professor in sociology at Wheelock College join forces with people who...
77) The Cloud Forest
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Sometimes, ordinary people can create extraordinary positive change. The people of a small community in Veracruz are the guardians of one of the ecosystems facing the most risk in the country: the cloud forest. Hoping to save their sacred and fog-laden land, they work for a simpler and sustainable life. Sixteen families redesign their needs, food, education and relationship with other people and with nature. They create an entirely self-sustaining...
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Systemic killings continue in Mexico - a genocide covered up or even perpetrated by the Mexican government. Carlos Spector, a U.S. immigration lawyer in El Paso, Texas fights to obtain political asylum for Mexicans fleeing the violence. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Costa Rica's motto is Pura Vida - Pure Life - and it boasts some of the most spectacular wildlife in the world. Venture across the nation's rugged landscapes, from volcanic peaks to coastal jungle to misty cloud forests and get to know Costa Rica's dazzling diversity of hummingbirds. Discover these astonishing little birds' outsize ripple effects on macaws, quetzals, monkeys, tapirs and more.
80) The Territories
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The desire to bear witness to the world's great tragedies is addressed playfully by Ivan Granovsky in humorous THE TERRITORIES. It's a miracle that this road movie even exists, it seems. The three previous times that director and protagonist attempted to make a film, he relates with a sense of self-mockery, turned into fiascos. An engrossing exploration into what it means to be a journalist, the film is about how we approach the conflicts - not the...
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