Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 9781545654286
My full name: Amaryllis Sánchez Wohlever, MD
My website: www.faithfulMD.com
Recapturing Joy in Medicine is a unique, practical, and uplifting companion to a physician's practice and a valuable resource for all medical professionals and leaders in healthcare. Written by a physician still navigating the dizzying reality of the U.S. healthcare crisis, the book inspires a proactive journey toward personal wellness, professional fulfillment, and a deeper sense of meaning in medicine and in life. Informed yet not disheartened by modern hurdles, Dr. Sánchez confronts barriers and highlights what must be done to preserve the patient-physician relationship, restore the heart of the physician, and rekindle the sacred in this noble profession.
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"It's like chicken soup for the physician's soul!" - K. Barton, MD
Author: Sylvia Mendoza
Publisher: Zest Books
ISBN: 978-1-942186-09-0
The Supreme Court’s first Latina Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, rose to this position of power on her own merits, and despite the many obstacles that stood in her way. Diagnosed with diabetes when she was just eight years old, she lived in housing projects in the Bronx in her youth and fought against blatant discrimination throughout her career. The experiences that shaped her and the events that shook her led her to the highest court in the U.S., to uphold the law of the land.
*This was the first book in the “Living History” series for young adult readers, which celebrates inspiring men and women of color.
Author: Josephine Caminos Oría
Publisher: Scribe Publishing Company
ISBN: 978-1735305189 (Hardcover), 978-1735305196 (eBook)
The term sobremesa —the purposeful lingering after a meal with family and loved ones—is a cornerstone of Latin and Hispanic cultures for which there is no English equivalent. It’s an evocative medium that provides a refuge for culture, self-discovery, and an edible memory of the past.
Oría’s memoir is the true story of a daughter’s love, loss, and cross-cultural, multi-generational legacy that unfolds like a magical realism novel à la Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate.
Sobremesa is for women who hear their childhood beckoning them to reconnect with their roots to find themselves and for anyone who ever felt tempted to chuck a professional life they loathe in pursuit of their true passion.
Author: Compiled/edited by Rubens Pantano Filho, Rodrigo de Oliveira and Alejandro “Turco” Sueya
Publisher: Editorial Universitaria La Plata
ISBN: 9789875952782
This book explores Argentinean Tango and Brazilian Samba through the eyes of a variety of experienced dance teachers and artists who reflect on the poetic, artistic, musical and cultural aspects of these two dance forms. Both Tango and Samba use the body to express strong emotions and communicate sentiments, as all dance forms do. Tango and Samba are also recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, given the richness of their cultural roots. Both dance forms are a fusion of genres brought by various immigrant communities to Argentina and Brazil. They are both also strongly influenced by the rhythms, dances and customs that were brought by African slaves and passed down by their descendants. Thus, although Tango and Samba developed in different countries, they are brothers thanks to their similar immigrant and Afro-descendent roots.
Author: Edited by Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Hardcover ISBN 13: 9781683402046
Link to original publication: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683402046
This volume presents how digital technologies are being used by people of African descent in South America and the Caribbean.
Afro-Latinx Digital Connections includes both research articles and interviews with practitioners who are working to create opportunities for marginalized communities. Projects discussed herein range from an Afrodescendant digital archive in Argentina, blog networks in Cuba, an NGO dedicated to democratizing technology in Brazilian favelas, and the recruitment of digital media to fight racism in Peru.
Digital connections are shown here as a means to achieve social justice and to create complex self-representations that challenge racist images of Afrodescendant peoples and monolithic conceptions of humanity.
Author: Christopher N. Matthews
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780813066684
Link to original publication: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813066684
Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American community on Long Island’s north shore. Through excavations of the Silas Tobias and Jacob and Hannah Hart houses in the village of Setauket, Christopher Matthews explores how the families who lived here struggled to survive and preserve their culture despite consistent efforts to marginalize and displace them over the course of more than 200 years. He discusses these forgotten people and the artifacts of their daily lives within the larger context of race, labor, and industrialization from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Author: Edited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780813066202
As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund “space joyrides” rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA’s goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. It provides new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad.
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement offers important lessons from history as today’s activists grapple with the distance between social movements like Black Lives Matter and scientific ambitions such as NASA’s mission to Mars.
Author: Susan D. Greenbaum
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780813024660
Link to original publication: https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813024660
This engaging ethnography follows Cuban exiles from Jose Marti's revolution to the Jim Crow South in Tampa, Florida, as they shape an Afro-Cuban-American identity over a span of five generations.
Unlike most studies of the Cuban exodus to the United States, which focus on the white, middle-class, conservative exiles from Castro's Cuba, More Than Black is peopled with Afro-Cubans of more modest means and more liberal ideology.
Building on Marti's declaration that being Cuban was "more than white, more than black," this study views, from the vantage of a community unique in time and place, the joint effects of ethnicity and gender in shaping racial identities. Highly readable text.
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