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• Publisher : Arte Publico Press
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1997

The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that,

• Publisher : Good Press
• File Size : 26,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 December 2023

"Who Would Have Thought It?" details the struggles of a Mexican-American girl born in Indian captivity, Lola, in an American society obsessed with class, religion, race and gender. The first

• Publisher : DigiCat
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• Release Date : 29 May 2022

The Squatter and the Don is Ruiz de Burton's most notable novel. The subjugated Californio inhabitants are unfairly moved from their homes, economically stifled and oppressed, while a few heroic

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 06 May 2016

In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new

• Publisher : Random House LLC
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

“The Squatter and the Don, like its author, has come out a survivor,” notes Ana Castillo in her Introduction. “The fact that it has resurfaced after more than a century

• Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 23 February 2021

The Squatter and the Don (1885) is a novel by Mexican American author María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. The novel, Ruiz de Burton’s second, explores the consequences of the

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 31 December 2021

The house is free...but it comes with a price. Single mom, Molly Greene, is forced to close her Michelin star restaurant due to the Covid 19 pandemic. To escape the

• Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
• File Size : 37,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 1992

Signed in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico and gave a large portion of Mexico’s northern territories to the United States.

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 45,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2005

"A delightful novel...impossible to resist." —Barbara Kingsolver, Los Angeles Times Book Review Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 April 2013

This novel adopts the narrative perspective of a conquered Californio population that is a "capable, cultured, even heroic people who were unjustly deterritorialized, economically strangled, liguistically oppressed, and politically marginalized"