Author: David Davila-Villers
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: thought, second, nafta
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1998-04-09
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0761810587
ISBN-13: 9780761810582

In this book, scholars from throughout North America analyze the North American integration process taking place under NAFTA. While NAFTA was originally conceived as a trade agreement only, the contributors argue, there are many other important issues raised by the agreement that are not being adequately addressed, including drug-trafficking, endangered species trafficking, labor mobility, and energy. The book also includes discussions of cultural issues such as education, Quebec’s cultural uniqueness, and California’s Proposition 187.

Author: Arlene Davila
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: whitewashing, race, image, public, spin, latino
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0814720072
ISBN-13: 9780814720073

Illegal immigrant, tax burden, job stealer. Patriot, family oriented, hard worker, model consumer. Ever since Latinos became the largest minority in the U.S. they have been caught between these wildly contrasting characterizations leaving us to wonder: Are Latinos friend or foe?Latino Spin cuts through the spin about Latinos’ supposed values, political attitudes, and impact on U.S. national identity to ask what these caricatures suggest about Latinos’ shifting place in the popular and political imaginary. Noted scholar Arlene Dávila illustrates the growing consensus among pundits,

Author: Jerry Dávila
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: brazil, 1917–1945, policy, social, whiteness, race, diploma
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2003-04
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822330709
ISBN-13: 9780822330707

In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition. Jerry Dávila explores the significance of this transition by looking at the history of the Rio de Janeiro school system between 1917 and 1945. He demonstrates how, in the period between the world wars, the dramatic proliferation of social policy initiatives in Brazil was subtly but powerfully shap

Author: Arlene Davila
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: puerto, rico, studies, rican, politics, identities, cultural, sponsored
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-10-16
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1566395496
ISBN-13: 9781566395496

"Now everybody loves Puerto Rican culture," says a Puerto Rican schoolteacher and festival organizer, "but that’s exactly the problem." Thus begins this major examination of cultural nationalism as a political construct involving party ideologies, corporate economic goals, and grassroots cultural groups. Author Arlene Davila focuses on the Institute for Puerto Rican Culture, the government institution charged with defining authenticated views of national identity since the 1950s, and on popular festival organizers to illuminate contestations over appropriate representations of culture in

Authors:Lori Davila, Margot King,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: perfect, hiring, phrases, employees, interviewing, hundreds, ready
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-06-27
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0071481702
ISBN-13: 9780071481700

The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every Time Hiring the right person is crucial to business success. You need to know what to say to attract the best applicants, what to ask during the interview, and how to communicate your expectations and goals. Perfect Phrases for Perfect Hiring arms you with the right words for every stage of the hiring process-from early recruiting and reference checking, to final interviews and orientation. Using the book’s hundreds of sample phrases and questions, you’ll find exactly what to say and do to find just the person you’re looking

Authors:Kieran T. Sullivan, Joanne Davila,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: relationships, intimate, processes, support
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-06-11
List price: $52.95
ISBN-10: 0195380177
ISBN-13: 9780195380170

In the past twenty years or so, research on support processes in relationships has emerged as a distinct development in the field. Researchers have drawn from studies in the fields of communication, social support, and intimate relationships to conduct research examining support processes in relationships on micro and macro levels. Theoretical models of support processes in intimate relationships have been developed and increasingly sophisticated methodologies and data analytic techniques are being used to accumulate considerable and convincing evidence of the importance and complexity of su

Authors:E. Buforn, J. Martin-Davila, A. Udias,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: topical, volumes, pageoph, tunisia, azores, geodynamics
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2004-05-14
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3764370432
ISBN-13: 9783764370435

The Azores-Tunisia region is formed by the western part of the plate boundary between Eurasia and Africa. This plate boundary presents a complex nature due to its proximity to the pole of rotation of the African plate. This condition produces crustal extensions and normal faulting at the Azores archipelago, transcurrent motion with strike slip faulting at the center part of the Azores-Gibraltar fault and at the eastern end, from the Gulf of Cadiz to Tunisia, plate convergence with reverse faulting. In this last part, the collision of Iberia with northern Morocco produces complex phenomena with