“for this anniversary edition assembled during a pandemic, climate crises and world uprisings, it’s never been more important to have these shared conversations in verse and prose on the page”
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF SANDRA ALCOSSER
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These past few years we have seen the United States educational system making leaps and bounds in the teaching and treatment of other cultures, but we still have holes to fill. SDSU Press has always been devoted to publishing works from a diverse range of cultures, and that is no better shown than in our collection of Kumeyaay and Indigenous peoples centered publications.
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| Tipai Ethnographic Notes by William D. Hohenthal Jr. |
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| Footsteps From the Past into the Future a collection of stories written in English, Spanish, and Kumeyaay |
A Teacher's Guide to Historical and Contemporary Kumeyaay Culture by Geralyn Marie Hoffman and Lynn H. Gamble, Ph.D
Of the three main works we have on Indigenous tribes like the Kumeyaay, the teaching guide to the Kumeyaay culutre is the one that is most rooted in the type of educational practices every university press should be encouraging. This teaching guide to the Kumeyaay Culture works to spread information about the past to help better craft a more aware future.
The publication focuses on aiding teachers of third and fourth grade classrooms on how to better teach and articulate the way that the Kumeyaay people live. And not only how they lived hundreds of years ago, but how their culture is still present today.
Check out all of our Kumeyaay publications and order A Teacher's Guide to Historical and Contemporary Kumeyaay Culture via our AMAZON to begin teaching the minds of our future with stories from the past.
Soldier, OSS/CIA Agent, Ambassador ... the memoirs of a remarkable man who left his trace on...
Posted by San Diego State University Press on Sunday, August 28, 2022
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From the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the School of Art + Design at San Diego State University, comes a remarkable celebration of 50 years of art activism. This published catalogue, CHICANO/A/X PRINTMAKING: MAKING PRINTS AND MAKING HISTORY, documents four original exhibitions of Chicanx artwork in the San Diego area, compiling stunning images of the showcased works. The catalogue renders a beautiful array of print forms including: screenprints, lithographs, linoleum cuts, monoprints, mixed media etching, watercolor and more, through which the development and growth of the Chicano/Chicana movement can be observed. Side-by-side English and Spanish translation allow readers to personalize their experience in the language that suits them most. Undeniably a great coffee table addition or wonderful gift! Buy direct from SDSU Press via our Amazon.com site: https://amzn.to/3RBJW5Z
ONLINE SPECIAL via Amazon.com! "Thanks to the erudition and detective work of Alan K. Brown and the high scholarly standards of SDSU Press, we no longer have to depend on a flawed version of this essential account of the founding of Spanish California. This is the definitive edition, in English AND Spanish."
David J. Weber, Dedman Professor of History, Southern Methodist University, and author of The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992) and many other books on the Spanish-Mexican borderlands.
"This work will be an integral part of any collection of basic California historical materials. Researchers in related fields such as anthropology, historical geography, and ethnobotany, along with history buffs and mission aficionados will seize upon it as a Îmust read itemâ and it becomes an instant Îmust possessâ title for any California library reference collection. Alan K. Brown deserves immense credit for his monumental research, editing, and analytical effort that produced this volume."
Harry W. Crosby, author of Antigua California, Mission Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, (1994).
"Alan K. Brown has provided historians, scholars, and researchers with a tremendous gift. His monumental and authoritative translation of Crespí's complete journals will quickly become an indispensable work for all who study the history of California. The introduction to Brown's work is, in and of itself, a masterful piece of research and writing. The extensive and thorough footnotes attest to Brown's careful attention to detail and desire to include the latest scholarship in his work. Brown's translations from the original Spanish texts are superbly done. They remain faithful to the Spanish but are "reader-friendly." Having the Spanish version of the original journals available in the text for comparison purposes greatly increases the value of Brown's contribution to researchers."
Rose Marie Beebe, President, California Mission Studies Association and Professor of Spanish, Santa Clara University
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Posted by San Diego State University Press on Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Preston Turegano is a retired newspaper journalist, having previously written with The San Diego Union-Tribune, referred to as "U-T." Now an author, his memoir “The Associated Preston” details gossip of many groups in San Diego, including, but not limited to, military officials, journalists, and politicians. “The Associated Preston” is published and available for sale on Amazon or through the SDSU Press website.
This interview was conducted in June of 2022 over email by Toki Lee, editorial intern and marketing associate of SDSU Press.
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SDSU Press: Please introduce yourself and your upcoming book in as many or few words as you'd like.
Preston: Preston Turegano (Tu-ri-gano), retired newspaper journalist. My memoir of my 50-year writing career begins with four years as a U.S. Navy journalist, including the final year of a four-year enlistment serving in Vietnam during the American war there. I wrote and occasionally edited The Jackstaff News, a biweekly newspaper for Naval forces throughout South Vietnam. After receiving a honorable discharge, I worked for the San Diego (California) Union-Tribune Publishing Co., first as an editorial assistant followed by a general assignment reporter for the Evening Tribune (later The Tribune).
In 1992, The Tribune merged with The San Diego Union to become The San Diego Union-Tribune in 1992. For the next 14 years, I was an arts and entertainment reporter/critic/columnist until retirement in 2006. During my entire U-T employment, I collected documents, bulletin board memos, and copies of stories that never saw the light of day. Eventually, I had eight boxes of items in moving boxes I kept at home because I told myself for years, “Someday I am going to write about me and the U-T.”
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| Preston Turegano as the cover of the January 13, 1994 issue of San Diego Gay and Lesbian Times. |
SDSU Press: What was it like writing this book compared to your previous work in journalism and news? Did you have to adapt your style?
Preston: Writing a memoir requires time and patience. Sometimes, recollections occur in the middle of the night, so you wake up and dash to the desktop PC and write. My journalistic skill was that of a reporter. “Writers” waxed poetically in their newspaper prose. I was entrenched into facts. The most nagging, frustrating, part was encountering fellow retirees who did not want to talk about anything that had happened in the past. I refer to them as “spineless bitches” in my mem.
SDSU Press: Gossip often has a negative connotation. Did you have any hesitancy in moving forward with that word, or did you always know you wanted to use it?
Preston: Many news stories are the result of tidbits (news tips) of information; i.e. gossip whispered into your ear or written down on a piece of paper. As I say in my mem, often gossip is something that has occurred or is going to occur that an individual or individuals don’t want others to know. A secret that should be exposed. At the U-T, my nicknames were “Gossip Central” and “The Associated Preston,” the latter a mocking take off of the Associated Press. Becoming a gossip requires you to own the name or title. A “So, what?” attitude to detractors. Some people love gossips or are gossips themselves, but won’t admit it.
SDSU Press: Did you find any unique challenges in writing what is, essentially, a memoir? What parts were you certain you wanted to keep in? What parts were you hesitant about?
SDSU Press: Is there anything specific you want to say about your book that you haven't said yet? Any closing remarks?
Preston: In closing, I feel (I know, TV”s “Judge Judy” doesn’t care about how litigants before her “feel”) I have written something no one else would dare write. My memoir is part historical, part biographical, and part entertaining/amusing, and overall outrageous. If readers don’t talk (GOSSIP) about it, trash it, or praise it, then I have failed, huh? Lastly, I did not write it to make money. I wrote it because I had a story—or two — to tell.
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Perversions on Parade 
Perversions on Parade is a 2005 Hyperbole Books Volume. Christened in 2004 as an imprint of San Diego State University Press, Hyperbole Books is dedicated to publishing cutting-edge, over-the-top experiments in critical theory, literary criticism and graphic narrative. Imagine some odd, bastard child of SEMIOTEXT[e], Taschen, and Fantagraphics Books raised in the dumpster behind Powells, and you begin to wide the wave of Hyperbole Books. Remember, "Buy the Hype."
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