Diary Of A Reluctant Dreamer

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Diary Of A Reluctant Dreamer

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Author : Alberto Ledesma
language : en
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Release Date : 2017

Diary Of A Reluctant Dreamer written by Alberto Ledesma and has been published by Mad Creek Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

From undocumented to "hyper documented," Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer traces Alberto Ledesma's struggle with personal and national identity from growing up in Oakland to earning his doctorate degree at Berkeley, and beyond.

Bird Of Paradise

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Author : Raquel Cepeda
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013

Bird Of Paradise written by Raquel Cepeda and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

An award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker chronicles her personal year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing her findings as well as her insights into controversies surrounding modern Latino identity.

Native Country Of The Heart

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Author : Cherríe Moraga
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2019-04-02

Native Country Of The Heart written by Cherríe Moraga and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

“[Written] with a poet’s verve. . . . This memoir’s beauty is in its fierce intimacy.” —Roy Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherríe Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation. As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where a relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother’s journey—from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s—she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity. As her mother’s memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a US Mexican diaspora, and an American story of cultural loss. Poetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to her mother. “A masterpiece of literary art.” —Michael Nava, Los Angeles Review of Books “Poignant, beautifully written.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A defiant, deep and soulful book about all our mothers, mother cultures, motherlands and languages.” —Julia Alvarez, national bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies

United States Of Banana

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Author : Giannina Braschi
language : en
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
Release Date : 2011

United States Of Banana written by Giannina Braschi and has been published by Amazon Crossing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Hispanic Americans categories.

"United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo. Segismundo has been imprisoned for more than one hundred years, hidden away by his father, the king of the United States of Banana, for the crime of having been born. But when the king remarries, he frees his son, and for the sake of reconciliation, makes Puerto Rico the fifty-first state and grants American passports to all Latin American citizens. This staggering show of benevolence rocks the global community, causing an unexpected power shift with far reaching implications."--P. [4] of cover.

Angelitos

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Author : Ilan Stavans
language : en
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Release Date : 2018

Angelitos written by Ilan Stavans and has been published by Mad Creek Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.

A graphic novel about the volatile nature of existence on the fringes of society in Mexico City.

Ahmed S Journey

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Author : Jill Apperson Manly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019

Ahmed S Journey written by Jill Apperson Manly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Anxiety in children categories.

Ahmed's Journey: A Story of Self-Discovery unfolds through the eyes of a young boy named Ahmed. The book tells of the Camel Races, a tradition in Ahmed's country and in much of the Middle East. While traveling to the Camel Races with his family and favorite camel, Jamal, Ahmed faces his fear of riding in the upcoming race. Watching Jamal calmly breathe, Ahmed finds his own breath, and in doing so he discovers he has a colorful array of emotions and feelings. By the end of the book, the reader learns that Ahmed is "grateful to be Ahmed."

Assimilation

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Author : Catherine S. Ramírez
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2020-12-08

Assimilation written by Catherine S. Ramírez and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-08 with Social Science categories.

For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media outlets. Noting society’s many exclusions and erasures, scholars in the second half of the twentieth century persuasively argued that only some social groups assimilate. Others, they pointed out, are subject to racialization. In this bold, discipline-traversing cultural history, Catherine Ramírez develops an entirely different account of assimilation. Weaving together the legacies of US settler colonialism, slavery, and border control, Ramírez challenges the assumption that racialization and assimilation are separate and incompatible processes. In fascinating chapters with subjects that range from nineteenth century boarding schools to the contemporary artwork of undocumented immigrants, this book decouples immigration and assimilation and probes the gap between assimilation and citizenship. It shows that assimilation is not just a process of absorption and becoming more alike. Rather, assimilation is a process of racialization and subordination and of power and inequality.

The Documented Child

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Author : Maya Socolovsky
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2025-02-04

The Documented Child written by Maya Socolovsky and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.

Immigrationis at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States’ perception of itself. In The Documented Child, scholar Maya Socolovsky demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has shifted over the first two decades of the twenty-first century in literary texts aimed at children and young adults and looks at how these shifts map onto broader changes in immigration policy and discourse. Through a critical inquiry into picture books and middle-grade and young adult literature, Socolovsky argues that the literary documentations of—and for—U.S. Latinx children have shifted over the decades, from an emphasis on hybrid transnationalism to that of a more American-oriented self. Socolovsky delves into texts written from 1997 to 2020, a period marked by tremendous changes in U.S. immigration policies, amplified discourses around nationhood, and an increasingly militarized border. The author shows how children’s and young adult books have shifted their depictions of the border, personal and national identity, and sovereignty. For students, scholars, and educators of Latinx studies and children’s literature, this work shows how the creators of children’s literature reflect new strategies for representing the undocumented Latinx child protagonist. While earlier books document the child as a transnational (sometimes global) subject, later books document her as both a transnational and U.S. national subject. The Documented Child explores this change as a necessary survival strategy, reflecting current awareness that cultural hybridity and transnational identity are not sufficient stand-ins for the stability and security of legal personhood.

Diary Of A Reluctant Dreamer

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Author : Alberto Ledesma
language : en
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Release Date : 2017

Diary Of A Reluctant Dreamer written by Alberto Ledesma and has been published by Mad Creek Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Illegal immigration categories.

The Oxford Handbook Of Comic Book Studies

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Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01

The Oxford Handbook Of Comic Book Studies written by Frederick Luis Aldama and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Art categories.

Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector of publishing. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies looks at the field systematically, examining the history and evolution of the genre from a global perspective. This includes a discussion of how comic books are built out of shared aesthetic systems such as literature, painting, drawing, photography, and film. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, it explores how the term "global comics" has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that will drive the field in the years to come. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.