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2002., Greenwood Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents profiles of seventy-five artists from the U.S., the Caribbean, and Central and South America, many with artist photos, describing their lives and works and providing bibliographies and museum lists.
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2002., Greenwood Press Call No: Ref 920 Art Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents profiles of seventy-five artists from the U.S., the Caribbean, and Central and South America, many with artist photos, describing their lives and works and providing bibliographies and museum lists.
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2022., Adolescent, Charlesbridge Teen Call No: Historical Fic Charles Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1984 New Jersey, fifteen-year-old Beatriz Mendez dreams of becoming a professional dancer like her idol Debbie Allen. Then her gang-leader brother is murdered and the fierce Beatriz is forced to step into her brother's shoes to run the gang at a time when cocaine was the dominant force running the neighborhood. Her dreams of dancing are all but gone, and her mother, grieving over the loss of her son, has turned into a shell of her former self. Then a classmate asks Beatriz to join him in a dance competition and her passion for dance once again sneaks in.
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-- Latino popular culture2004., Greenwood Press Call No: Ref 305.868 Enc Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Contains entries that provide information about various aspects of Latino popular culture, covering people, celebrations, food,sports, events, literature and film, fashion, and other topics; arranged alphabetically in two volumes from A to Z.
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[2016]., ABC-CLIO Call No: 327.12 DIX Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Government surveillance as an issue exploded into modern consciousness with the revelations that Edward Snowden made about the activities of the National Security Agency in 2013. But government surveillance is actually an old issue with a long and tangled history reaching back through generations. The competing interests involved in government surveillance create deeply opposing tensions that never seem to get fully resolved or go away. Government wants to surveil in secrecy to protect home and country, and those being governed for their part want to be safe and protected. But individuals also want to have autonomy, privacy, and freedom from unfair intrusions or other abuses of government power. The nuanced and long-term interaction of this push and pull between the government's legitimate desire for surveillance and legitimate desire expressed by individuals and society as a whole for civil liberties and autonomy run deeply though America's history, laws, actions, and policies of government surveillance"--
