Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRAn NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the authorWho are Latinos and where do they fit in America's racial order? In this "timely and important examination of Latinx identity" ( Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mex...

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRAn NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the authorWho are Latinos and where do they fit in America’s racial order? In this “timely and important examination of Latinx identity” (Ms.), Laura E. Gómez, a leading critical race scholar, argues that it is only recently that Mex...

Manifest Destinies is an essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States.This is the history of the original Mexican Americans—the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The war abruptly came to an end two years later, and 115,000 Mexicans became American citizens overnight. Yet their status as full-fledged American...

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines.

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those implications for research and suggests ways...

Presents a number of new and potentially useful self-learning (adaptive) control algorithms and theoretical as well as practical results for both unconstrained and constrained finite Markov chains-efficiently processing new information by adjusting the control strategies directly or indirectly.

The Sisters’ Fight:  A Poetic Anthology of Awareness Written by: Danica N. Worthy Deidra D.S. Green Jamila E. Gomez Tammie T. Bell-Davis Synopsis The Sisters’ Fight; A Poetic Anthology was written by four women that came together through their love of writing and creativity to bring added awareness to the ongoing battle of fighting Cancer and Bullying.  This book of poetry and short stories represents the love and strugg...

The worlds of Volumes I and II collide to give readers the pleasure of reading both works at once. Favorites, such as "Contemptible You", "Be Alone", and "Songs of Tranquility" join forces with "Critically Acclaimed", "Illicit Permissible Solicitation", and "Muse", along with a few new editions.

Responding to the current national concern for enhanced commitments to early education, this book examines what states are currently doing, what has proven effective, and what the existing body of knowledge offers educators, policymakers, and others seeking successful approaches to governance. Featuring chapters by prominent, thoughtful scholars and practitioners, this is the first volume to specifically focus on early childhood governance. Reflective and prospective, this seminal contribu...

Pieces of me, is a poetic colletion expressing a very personal and intimate perspective on love and how these four letters have completely changed and influenced the life of Emmanuel Netu. The book strives to express these overwhelming emotions that sometimes push us to have various types of experiences and sometimes unrealistic expectations. Each piece is different for every single reader. The words you'll find within these pages express universal thoughts and emotions we all feel through...

Everyday, someone suffers from depression, loneliness and pain. The poetic words of this book will enrich a person to find worth and success through the very trials that befall them. This book is a thirty day program, where one can find strength, joy, laughter, love, motivation and reasons to live. Life can be hard and unfair, however, through this thirty day enrichment book, one can conquer all obstacles and smile while doing it.RAYMOND STURGIS is the author of BLACK LIVES MATTER,...

"Yes, I am Woman" is a collection of poems, which touch on women's emotions. Heartfelt and very candid, these poems explore the emotions women feel but do not always express. The words in the poems paint descriptions of a woman's triumph, victories, success, and failures. These poems empower women to understand how they relate to other women who experience similar situations in their own personal lives. The poems explore how some women feel when they fall in love, have their heart broken, ...