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Lila Banks Cockrell has been an important voice in San Antonio
politics and public life for more than six decades. In Love Deeper
Than a River, she recalls her life as a public servant in the city
she loves and, as member of the Greatest Generation, recounts how
coming of age during Prohibition, the Great Depression, World War
II, and the burgeoning civil rights movement influenced her
political views and kindled her passion to serve her country and
community. Love Deeper Than a River details the era of Cockrell's
life that many San Antonians are familiar with, including her four
terms as the first woman mayor of San Antonio, between 1975 and
1991, and her service on countless municipal commissions, civic
boards, foundations, and conservancies in the 1990s and into the
early twenty-first century. Her life stands as an inspiration for
everyone, including new generations of civic leaders.
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Roj Rodriguez - Mi Sangre (Hardcover)
Nadine Barth; Text written by Anne Wilkes Tucker; Henry Cisneros; Text written by Lila Downs, Dolores Huerta, …
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R1,158
Discovery Miles 11 580
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The series Mi Sangre by Roj Rodriguez started as a photo
documentation of a personal journey to retrace his Mexican heritage
and has evolved into a fine art project aimed at highlighting
Mexican culture on both sides of the US/Mexico border. It documents
everyday aspects of Mexican life, the culture and popular
iconography, both as they exist in Mexico and as reimagined by
Mexican Americans in the US. With each of the subjects portrayed,
Roj Rodriguez engaged in sometimes casual, sometimes insightful
conversations. Mi Sangre includes proud and elegant charros,
beautiful and skilled escaramuzas, joyful and coy children, wise
and innocent elders, vibrant and talented mariachi musicians,
loving and welcoming families, and even fine art re-interpretations
of Loteria iconography.
Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some
of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San
Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September
11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the
challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray
Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development
Administration following Hurricane Katrina. In Katrina's wake, New
Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous
proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic
infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of
Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of
New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained
that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the
statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble
well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining
population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a
failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems
worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical
damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a
racially divided, socially fractured community. My Storm is a
firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina
recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to
transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that
could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery
effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges
at hand and the work done-admitting that he sometimes stumbled,
especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of
the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and
would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary
tale.
Traditionally, institutions of higher education have been viewed as
the gateway to a better future, despite the fact that so many of
the neighborhoods surrounding them have been filled with
hopelessness and despair. In Promise and Betrayal, the authors want
nothing less than to start a revolution in higher education,
calling on partnerships between "town and gown" to create
sustainable urban neighborhoods. John I. Gilderbloom and R. L.
Mullins Jr. detail how higher education institutions can play an
important role in helping to revitalize our poor neighborhoods by
forming partnerships with public, private, and nonprofit groups.
They advocate leaving the "ivory tower" and supplying the community
with expert knowledge as well as creative and technical resources.
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