21 Miles of Scenic Beauty ... and Then Oxnard

21 Miles of Scenic Beauty ... and Then Oxnard
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Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : 0692980458
ISBN-13 : 9780692980453
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Book Synopsis 21 Miles of Scenic Beauty ... and Then Oxnard by : Martín Alberto Gonzalez

Download or read book 21 Miles of Scenic Beauty ... and Then Oxnard written by Martín Alberto Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its wonderful everyday weather and beautiful surf-ridden beaches, Oxnard, California, has a reputation of being dangerous and demoralizing due to its gang presence. In this book, Mart�n Alberto Gonzalez takes this reputation head on through a series of social justice-oriented stories loosely based on his experiences and observations growing up in Oxnard as a first-generation Xicano. Rather than focusing on everything that deems the city bad, such as its overabundance of undereducated Brown people, Mart�n flips the script through counterstorytelling and testimonies in order to shed light on various injustices directly impacting his community, such as inequitable schooling practices, segregation, gentrification, and many more.


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