Alejandria Fights Back! / La lucha de Alejandria! - Couverture rigide

The, Rise Home Project; Hernandez-Linares, Leticia

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ISBN 10 : 1558617043 ISBN 13 : 9781558617049

Editeur : Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2021

Synopsis

Join nine\-year\-old Alejandria as she fights to save her neighborhood from gentrification! For nine\-year\-old Alejandria, home isn\x27t just the apartment she shares with Mami and her abuela, Tita, but rather the whole neighbourhood. Home is the bakery where Ms. Beatrice makes yummy picos; the sidewalk where Ms. Alicia sells flowers with her little dog, Duende; and the corner store with friendly Mr. Amir. But lately the city has been changing, and rent prices are going up. Many people in el barrio are leaving because they can no longer afford their homes, and \x27For Sale\x27 signs are popping up everywhere. Then the worst thing happens: Mami receives a letter saying they\x27ll have to move out too. Alejandria knows it isn\x27t fair, but she\x27s not about to give up and leave. Join Alejandria as she brings her community together to fight and save their neighbourhood!

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

The Rise-Home Stories Project is an innovative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and social justice advocates from several grassroots organizations who work at the nexus of housing, land, and racial justice in the US. It came together in 2018 to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about land and home. To that end, the Rise-Home Stories Project is creating a body of multimedia projects aimed at diverse audiences that expose the generational impacts of racist land and housing policy while planting a long-term vision for our collective future. Alejandria Fights Back! is one of those projects.

Leticia Hernández-Linares is an educator, interdisciplinary artist, and author of the poetry collection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. She is also the coeditor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Her work appears in collections and journals such as Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, Street Art San Francisco, Huizache, and Pilgrimage. A 2017 San Francisco Library Laureate, she is the recipient of four San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grants, and has received support from the Creative Work Fund and the Zellerbach Family Foundation. A longtime community worker and Mission resident, she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

Robert Liu-Trujillo is a lifelong Bay Area resident. Born in Oakland, California, he is the child of student activists who watched lots of science fiction and took him to many demonstrations. Always drawing, Rob grew up to be an artist, falling in love with graffiti, fine art, illustration, murals, and children's books. Through storytelling, he's been able to scratch the surface of so many untold stories. He is the author and illustrator of Furqan's First Flat Top.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1558617043
• ISBN 13: 9781558617049
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Liu-Trujillo Robert
• Nombre de pages: 48
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