La Florida : five hundred years of hispanic presence / / edited by Viviana Díaz Balsera and Rachel A. May

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459914903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8130-5048-0; 0-8130-5505-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.9
• Soggetti: Spaniards - Florida - History; Hispanic Americans - Florida - History; Electronic books.; Florida History Spanish colony, 1565-1763
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Florida quincentennial book"--Title page verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Ponce's ghosts : Spain and Florida, 1513-2013 / Gary R. Mormino -- ; Part I. La Florida : first and second Spanish periods. Introduction : three hundred years of La Florida / Viviana Díaz Balsera -- Charting Juan Ponce de León's 1513 voyage to Florida : the Calusa Indians amid latitudes of controversy / Jerald T. Milanich -- "Until the land was understood" : Spaniards confront La Florida, 1500-1600 / Paul E. Hoffman -- On the trail of texts from early Spanish Florida : Garcilaso's La Florida del Inca and Ore's Relación de los mártires / Raquel Chang-Rodríguez -- A land renowned for war : Florida as a maritime marchland / Amy Turner Bushnell -- "Giving liberty to all" : Spanish Florida as a Black sanctuary, 1673-1790 / Jane Landers -- The experience of a loss : Spain, Florida, and the United States (1783-1833) / Carmen de la Guardia Herrero -- ; Part II. Postcolonial and contemporary Florida. Introduction : Florida in the modern world / Rachel A. May -- Fireworks over Fernandina : the Atlantic dimension of the Amelia Island episode, 1817 / Karen Racine -- The old world in the new : Florida discovers the arts of Spain, 1885-1930 / Richard L. Kagan -- Performing diasporas, or Cubanidad meets Jim Crow : Miami in a ; period of demographic transition before the Cuban Revolution / Darien J. Davis -- Mickey Ricans? The recent Puerto Rican diaspora to Florida / Jorge Duany -- Miami in the twenty-first century : still on the edge? / Alex Stepick and Marcos Feldman -- How Cubans transformed Florida politics and gained national influence / Susan Eckstein.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Commemorating Juan Ponce de León's landfall on the Atlantic coast of Florida, this ambitious volume explores five centuries of Hispanic presence in the New World peninsula, reflecting on the breadth and depth of encounters between the different lands and cultures. The contributors, leading experts in a range of fields, begin with an examination of the first and second Spanish periods. This was a time when La Florida was an elusive possession that the Spaniards were never able to completely secure; but Spanish influence would nonetheless leave an indelible mark on the land. In the second half of this volume, the essays highlight the Hispanic cultural legacy, politics, and history of modern Florida and expand on Florida's role as a modern transatlantic cross roads." -- Publisher's description.

Among murderers [[electronic resource] ] : life after prison / / Sabine Heinlein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786019303321
• Autore: Heinlein Sabine <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95477-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.80973
• Soggetti: Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Freedom day -- At the garden -- Street code -- Talking murder -- Poster boys -- Dinner with bruce -- Work readiness -- Prisoners still -- The penis monologues -- At the barber -- Causalities -- The new coat -- A haunted house -- Waiting for nothing -- Growing old -- Silent forgiveness -- Lies and good luck ; -- Sex, love, and race -- From attica to broadway -- The new home -- On guard -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References.
• Sommario/riassunto: What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos and his friends Bruce and Adam-three men convicted of some of society's most heinous crimes-as they return to the free world.Heinlein spent more than two years at the Castle, a prominent halfway house in West Harlem, shadowing her protagonists as they painstakingly learn how to master their freedom. Having lived most of their lives behind bars, the men struggle to cross the street, choose a dish at a restaurant, and withdraw money from an ATM. Her empathetic first-person narrative gives a visceral sense of the men's inner lives and of the institutions they encounter on their odyssey to redemption. Heinlein follows the men as they navigate the subway, visit the barber shop, venture on stage, celebrate Halloween, and loop through the maze of New York's reentry programs. She asks what constitutes successful rehabilitation and how one faces the guilt and shame of having taken someone's life.With more than 700,000 people being released from prisons each year to a society largely unprepared-and unwilling-to receive them, this book provides an incomparable perspective on a pressing public policy issue. It offers a poignant view into a rarely seen social setting and into the hearts and minds of three unforgettable individuals who struggle with some of life's harshest challenges.