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Genre/Form: | Problems and exercises Problems, exercises, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sonia Maasik; J Fisher Solomon |
ISBN: | 0312114958 9780312114954 |
OCLC Number: | 33246358 |
Description: | xiv, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | California dreaming: myths of the golden land -- California: a place, a people, a dream / James J. Rawls -- California as paradise / Julián Marías -- Notes from a native daughter / Joan Didion -- Proofs / Richard Rodriquez -- Country voices / David Mas Masumoto -- The endangered dream / Jordan Bonfante -- An age of limits and definitions / Charlie Stoddard -- The great migration: immigrants in California history -- The welcome mat is threadbare / Yeh Ling-Ling -- Refine immigration policy to reflect history and the moment we live in / Rubén Martinez -- A letter home / Sylvia Martinez -- Ripon / Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez -- The organizer's tale / Cesar Chavez -- Vietnamese youths no longer look homeward / Nancy Wride -- Blacks vs. Browns / Jack Miles -- A tale of two cities: multicultural tensions and the L.A. riots -- Achieving diversity / Los Angeles 2000 committee -- Riot chronology / L.A. Weekly -- Justice for all? What about us? / Peter Nguyen -- Deciphering L.A. smoke signals: the word is class, not race / Luis Rodriguez -- Words to live or die by / Itabari Njeri -- Of us, them, and a myth exploded / Peter H. King -- How the rioters won / Midge Decter -- Learning to talk of race / Cornel West. Fault lines: Californians' fragile pact with nature -- The panic flight of a homeless host / Charles Morris -- Assembling California / John McPhee -- Living in the red zone / Michael Ventura -- Tragedy comes to the middle class / Richard Rodriguez -- Leaving the Limoges / Celeste Fremon -- No trespassing / Elisabeth Wickett -- Santa Barbara's poor feel sting of ongoing drought / Miles Corwin -- Developing the dream: issues in California land use -- Among kin / Malcolm Margolin -- The water game / Gerald W. Haslam -- Mulholland's phophecy / Margaret Leslie Davis -- Things fall apart / Marc Reisner -- Sunbelt Bolshevism / Mike Davis -- Drawing a line in the ashes / Les Hardie -- At loggerheads / Marie Gravelle -- Homeless in paradise / Rob Rosenthal -- The best-laid plans: higher education and the Californian dream -- Pay as you go: privatizing California's "public" higher education system -- Lilia / Mike Rose -- "Well, I guess they need their minority" / Ruben Navarrette, Jr. -- The retreat from race / Dana Y. Takagi -- Why do they study so hard, yet stay in America's basement? / Eduardo Munoz -- The ZIP code route into UC / Susan E. Brown -- More young Californians spurn their strained university system / Jane Gross. |
Responsibility: | [compiled by] Sonia Maasik, Jack Solomon. |
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