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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2006, held in Cancun, Mexico in November 2006. The 99 revised full papers presented together with three keynote articles were carefully reviewed and selected from 239 submissions. The papers cover ongoing research and mathematical methods.

Examines LatCrit’s emergence as a scholarly and activist community within and beyond the US legal academy Emerging from the US legal academy in 1995, LatCrit theory is a genre of critical outsider jurisprudence—a vital hub of contemporary scholarship that includes Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory, among other critical schools of legal knowledge. Its basic goals have been: (1) to develop a critical, activist, and inter-disciplinary discourse on law and society affecting Latinas/os/x, and (2) to foster both the development of coalitional theory and practice as well as the accessibility of this knowledge to agents of social and legal transformative change. This slim volume tells the story of LatCrit’s growth and influence as a scholarly and activist community. Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender offer a living example of how critical outsider academics can organize long-term collective action, both in law and society, that will help those similarly inclined to better organize themselves. Part roadmap, part historical record, and part a path forward, LatCrit: From Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activismshows that with coalition, collaboration, and community, social transformation can take root.

A Beast In Silence By: Yvonne Francisco In these short stories, the author conveys the feelings and anguish of women living under the yoke of domineering and abusive men, or, as she calls them, ‘men-beasts’, a new sub-species, which, in her own words, emerged as a hybrid between humans and some kind of wild animal. Through her tales, the author vividly shows that no specific social class or educational levels can prevent women from being caught up in the so-called cycle of violence, as reflected by increasingly shocking statistics worldwide, with so many women experiencing violence at the hands of their current and former partners or husbands on a daily basis. Readers will also be able to discover the particular characteristics that define this ‘man-beast’ or abuser. In a break from literary convention, the author does not name any of her characters, using just personal pronouns like ‘he’ or ‘she’ to help readers to identify with them. If they too are experiencing identical or similar situations, some readers might come to realize that what is going on in their own lives is not normal but part of that same vicious cycle of domestic violence.

A detailed history of the controversial explorer and his interactions with Aztec tribes and other groups in Central America.

Latino/a Thought brings together the most important writings that shape Latino consciousness, culture, and activism today. This historical anthology is unique in its presentation of cross cultural writings--especially from Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban writers and political documents--that shape the ideology and experience of U.S. Latinos. Students can read, first hand, the works or authors who most shaped their cultural heritage. They are guided by vivid introductions that set each article or document in its historical context and describe its relevance today. The writings touch on many themes, but are guided by this book's concern for a quest for public citizenship among all Latino populations and a better understanding of racialized populations in the U.S. today.

Para España, recuperar la última fase de la Ilustración tropieza con un inconveniente. La fascinación por la vida íntima de las personalidades que ocupan la cúspide del Estado. La narración de los acontecimientos viene, antes o después, a centrarse en los caprichos de la reina María Luisa de Parma; las indecisiones del indolente Carlos IV y las cualidades morales de Manuel Godoy, cuyo ascenso meteórico desconcertó a propios y extraños. El relato de la época semeja una crónica al gusto de lectores de prensa del corazón. La condena moral exime de otros análisis. El presente trabajo pretende exponer el cambio que experimenta la sociedad española sobre la base de releer las fuentes impresas para extraer las líneas argumentativas formuladas por los propios protagonistas de la historia. Sumario: Introducción.- Capítulo I. El laberinto del raciocinio político. El callejón sin salida del absolutismo. La Corona: dinastía, nación y patria.- II. El pensamiento científico en la última fase de la Ilustración. Pervivencia de la Ilustración- Los periódicos.- III. El universo de la ficción. La estética a finales de la Ilustración: los motivos goyescos. Literatura y cambio social: Por una nueva forma de convivencia. - Índice onomástico.