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  • The Terror of the Machine

    Technology, Work, Gender, and Ecology on the U.S.-Mexico Border

    by Devon G. Peña ...
    Series series CMAS Border & Migration Studies Series
    Born of thirteen years of field research, this interdisciplinary work explores the complex intersections of technology, class, gender, and ecology in the transnational milieu of Mexico's maquiladoras, foreign-owned assembly plants located along the U.S. border.Devon Peña examines workplace and community struggles from the perspective of the women who work in the maquiladoras. He describes the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements

    Decolonial Perspectives

    Edited by Devon Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, Gabriel R. Valle ...
    Series series Food and Foodways
    Winner, 2018 ASFS (Association for the Study of Food and Society) Book Award, Edited VolumeThis collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities.The writers here take us from multigenerational acequia farmers, who trace their ancestry to Indigenous families in place well before the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace

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  • The Great Divide

    Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
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  • More Than Good Intentions

    Improving the Ways the World's Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy

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    by Ferial Haffajee ...
    In What if there were no whites in South Africa? Ferial Haffajee examines South Africa’s history and present in the light of a provocative question that yields some thought-provoking discussion and analysis. From round-table discussions with influential South Africans, to research, personal thoughts and powerful anecdotes, Ferial takes the reader through the rocky terrain of race rage in our ... Read more

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  • A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle

    Revelations of Indigenous Wisdom--Healing Plants, Practices, and Stories

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