This debut story collection "masterfully navigates adverse conditions of migrant life while . . . managing to find joy and amusement, love and triumph" ( San Francisco Chronicle).Gordo brings readers inside a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. At the heart of these interrelated stories is a young, probably gay, boy named Gordo, who must find a way to contend with the notions of manhood imposed on him by his father. As ...

The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A young, probably gay, boy named Gordo puts on a wrestler’s mask and throws fists with a boy in the neighborhood, fighting his own tears as he tries to grow into the idea of manhood so imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, watches his father’s drunken fights, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-A...

In this collection, local experts use personal narratives and empirical data to explore the history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The essays focus on three themes: the historical context of segregated and inferior schooling for Latina/o/x students; the changing purposes and meanings of education for Latina/o/x students from the 1950s through today; and Latina/o/x resistance to educational reforms grounded in neoliberalism. Contri...

En México, el primer semestre de 2014 se vio marcado por los esfuerzos del Ejecutivo por controlar un país que, por momentos, parece escapársele de las manos. Muestra de ello es el envío de un comisionado plenipotenciario, fuerzas federales y una inversión multimillonaria para la intervención en el estado de Michoacán en un intento por frenar la inseguridad, restituir el estado de derecho, impulsar el desarrollo de la entidad y detener el crecimiento de las fuerzas de autodefensa. La puest...

This book is a compilation of articles written by renowned researchers who participated in the first International Conference on Applied Intelligent Robotic Systems (ICARIS 2025). ICARIS promotes the international participation of industry specialists, academic groups, and researchers in collaborations focused on technological advances and scientific research to develop mobile robot and intelligent systems applications. In this way, ICARIS can strengthen and influence directly the developm...