Jose Clemente Orozco
Author: José Clemente Orozco
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780486418193
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Agent of Change
Author: Cynthia E. Orozco
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2020-01-10
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1477319867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901–1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas’s Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. At last presenting the full story of Sloss-Vento’s achievements, Agent of Change revives a forgotten history of a major female Latina leader. Bringing to light the economic and political transformations that swept through South Texas in the 1920s as ranching declined and agribusiness proliferated, Cynthia E. Orozco situates Sloss-Vento’s early years within the context of the Jim Crow/Juan Crow era. Recounting Sloss-Vento’s rise to prominence as a public intellectual, Orozco highlights a partnership with Alonso S. Perales, the principal founder of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Agent of Change explores such contradictions as Sloss-Vento’s tolerance of LULAC’s gender-segregated chapters, even though the activist was an outspoken critic of male privilege in the home and a decidedly progressive wife and mother. Inspiring and illuminating, this is a complete portrait of a savvy, brazen critic who demanded reform on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed
Author: Cynthia E. Orozco
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0292774133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A refreshing and pathbreaking [study] of the roots of Mexican American social movement organizing in Texas with new insights on the struggles of women” (Devon Peña, Professor of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington). Historian Cynthia E. Orozco presents a comprehensive study of the League of United Lantin-American Citizens, with an in-depth analysis of its origins. Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, LULAC is often judged harshly according to Chicano nationalist standards of the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed presents LULAC in light of its early twentieth-century context. Orozco argues that perceptions of LULAC as an assimilationist, anti-Mexican, anti-working class organization belie the group's early activism. Supplemented by oral history, this sweeping study probes LULAC's predecessors, such as the Order Sons of America, blending historiography and cultural studies. Against a backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, World War I, gender discrimination, and racial segregation, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed recasts LULAC at the forefront of civil rights movements in America.
Mexican Muralists
Author: Desmond Rochfort
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1998-03-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811819282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Los tres grandes: Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Now legendary, these men have emerged as the most prominent figures of the famed Mexican mural movement, which lasted from the '20s through the early '70s and was hailed as the most significant achievement in public art of the 20th century. The dramatic story of the movement is told here in a fascinating history of the artists, accompanied by over 100 spectacular color reproductions of the murals. Showcasing popular as well as lesser-known works from around the US and Mexico, this is the first high-quality paperback to do justice to a subject that will captivate every lover of Mexican art and culture, Rivera fan, and art historian, as well as anyone who appreciates a beautiful, intelligent art book.
Gabriel Orozco
Author: Ann Temkin
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780870707629
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Orozco's American Epic
Author: Mary K. Coffey
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781478002987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1932 and 1934, José Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.
Investigating the Death of Innocents
Author: Michael Orozco
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781935437222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →February 18, 2007: the remains of a child are discovered in a Rubbermaid tub inside a rental storage unit in Tucson, Arizona. Thus begins the child abuse/murder investigation that resulted in new legislation governing Child Protective Services. This is not a dramatic retelling of events, but the day-by-day facts as reported by the lead detective on the case. While certainly of interest to anyone who feels strongly about protecting our children, Investigating the Death of Innocents will also appeal to anyone interested in seeing exactly how a police investigation is carried out, and how it proceeds from the first phone call through to the trial and sentencing of the criminals. This is a story that will break your heart, but also leave you respecting the police investigators and prosecuting attorneys whose dedication and hard work brought this case to a successful conclusion.
Children of Immigration
Author: Carola Suárez-Orozco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0674044126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now in the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, America, mythical land of immigrants, is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role in reworking the fabric of the nation. At the center of this prospect are the children of immigrants, who make up one fifth of America's youth. This book, written by the codirectors of the largest ongoing longitudinal study of immigrant children and their families, offers a clear, broad, interdisciplinary view of who these children are and what their future might hold. For immigrant children, the authors write, it is the best of times and the worst. These children are more likely than any previous generation of immigrants to end up in Ivy League universities--or unschooled, on parole, or in prison. Most arrive as motivated students, respectful of authority and quick to learn English. Yet, at the same time, many face huge obstacles to success, such as poverty, prejudice, the trauma of immigration itself, and exposure to the materialistic, hedonistic world of their native-born peers. The authors vividly describe how forces within and outside the family shape these children's developing sense of identity and their ambivalent relationship with their adopted country. Their book demonstrates how "Americanization," long an immigrant ideal, has, in a nation so diverse and full of contradictions, become ever harder to define, let alone achieve.
Orientation and Other Stories
Author: Daniel Orozco
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2011-05-24
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1429995211
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Breakfast's boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break—daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed—by a coworker's taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge—cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown. Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination. Orientation introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction. Orientation is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections title.
José Clemente Orozco
Author: Clemente Orozco V.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2004-09-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780292702493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fully illustrated volume documents Jose Clemente Orozco's finest work as a printmaker in lithography and intaglio.
