{"product_id":"the-tip-of-the-pyramid-unearthing-community-cultural-capital-9781608012404","title":"The Tip of the Pyramid: Unearthing Community Cultural Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eCommunity organizing ten years after the Librotraficante Caravan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Book was written five hundred years after the Mexica relented governance of their land to the spanish pirates who razed our libraries, burned our books and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Book comes twenty-five years after the creation of Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say in Houston, where our voices and stories were silenced and ignored.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis Book is published ten years after Arizona officials enforced a ban on Mexican American Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese erasures--and our resistance to them--have long themselves been erased. That ends now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tip of the Pyramid\u003c\/i\u003e renders the power of community to shatter the generalizations, clichés, and stereotypes that sentence us. It unpacks metaphors that are over 500 years old. And it documents the self-empowerment of our gente.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs new attacks loom, \u003ci\u003eThe Tip of the Pyramid\u003c\/i\u003e impels our Community and allies to unite.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of New Orleans Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781608012404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280","brand":"Tony Diaz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42200690327733,"sku":"9781608012404","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f8edd9fc-a89e-496f-8c96-284277109030.jpg?v=1655218935","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-tip-of-the-pyramid-unearthing-community-cultural-capital-9781608012404","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}