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Gabacho

Author : Richard Jewkes
Publisher : WildBlue Press
ISBN 13 : 1948239280
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Gabacho written by Richard Jewkes and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man’s rebellion lands him in a Mexican prison, where theater becomes a lifeline in this memoir of angst, crime, friendship and redemption. Richard Jewkes was in his senior year as a University of Utah theater student when he became disenchanted with his strict Mormon upbringing. Over Christmas break, he and a college friend took off for Mexico seeking adventure. If the adventure hadn’t included smuggling drugs, it might have just been another college road trip. But after a disastrous encounter with a drug cartel, the two young men ended up arrested by Mexican Federales while trying to make it to the US border. When Jewkes and his friend are tossed into a Mexican prison, they anticipate torture, assault, and even death. After a fight with a notorious killer and struggles with tormenting guards, they make a disastrous escape attempt. But ultimately, Jewkes finds his path to survival when he starts a theatre group with a rag-tag bunch of fellow convicts.

Ask a Mexican

Author : Gustavo Arellano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416540032
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Ask a Mexican written by Gustavo Arellano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ASK A MEXICAN ? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clich s of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power. WHY SHOULD I READ ASK A MEXICAN ? At 37 million strong (or 13 percent of the U.S. population), Latinos have become America's largest minority -- and beaners make up some two-thirds of that number. I confront the bogeymen of racism, xenophobia, and ignorance prompted by such demographic changes through answering questions put to me by readers of my Ask a Mexican column in California's OC Weekly. I challenge you to find a more entertaining way to immerse yourself in Mexican culture that doesn't involve a taco-and-enchilada combo. OKAY, WHY DO MEXICANS PARK THEIR CARS ON THE FRONT LAWN? Where do you want us to park them? The garage we rent out to a family of five? The backyard where we put up our recently immigrated cousins in tool-shack-cum-homes? The street with the red curbs recently approved by city planners? The driveway covered with construction materials for the latest expansion of la casa? The nearby school parking lot frequented by cholos on the prowl for a new radio? The lawn is the only spot Mexicans can park their cars without fear of break-ins, drunken crashes, or an unfortunate keying. Besides, what do you think protects us from drive-bys? The cops?

The Gringo Champion

Author : Aura Xilonen
Publisher : Europa Editions UK
ISBN 13 : 1787700313
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book The Gringo Champion written by Aura Xilonen and published by Europa Editions UK. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million Dollar Baby meets The Brief Life of Oscar Wao Liborio has to leave Mexico, a land that has taught him little more than a keen instinct for survival. He crosses the Rio Bravo, like so many others, to reach "the promised land." And in a barrio like any other, in some gringo city, this illegal immigrant tells his story. As Liborio narrates his memories we discover a childhood scarred by malnutrition and abandonment, a youth during which he has nothing to lose. In his new home, he finds a job at a bookstore, where of all places he begins to doubt the usefulness of words. He falls in love with a woman so intensely that his fantasies of her verge on obsession. And, finally, he finds himself on a path that just might save him: he becomes a boxer. Liborio's story is constructed in a dazzling language that reflects the particular culture of border towns and expresses both resistance and fascination. This is a migrants' story of deracination, loneliness, fear, and, finally, love – a thoroughly contemporary take on the picaresque novel – told in sparkling, innovative prose.

Ask a Mexican

Author : Gustavo Arellano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416562060
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Ask a Mexican written by Gustavo Arellano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning columnist and favorite talking head Gustavo Arellano, comes this explosive, irreverent, smart, and hilarious Los Angeles Times bestseller. ¡Ask a Mexican! is a collection of questions and answers from Gustavo Arellano that explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power. At a strong eighteen percent of the U.S. population, Latinos have become America's largest minority—and Mexicans make up a large part of that number. Gustavo confronts the bogeymen of racism, xenophobia, and ignorance prompted by such demographic changes through answering questions put to him by readers of his ¡Ask a Mexican! column in California's OC Weekly. He challenges readers to find a more entertaining way to understand Mexican culture that doesn't involve a taco-and-enchilada combo. From lighter topics like Latin pop and great Mexican food to more serious issues like immigration and race relations, ¡Ask a Mexican! runs the gamut. Why do Mexicans call white people gringos? Are all Mexicans Catholic? What's the best tequila? Gustavo answers a wide range of legitimate and illegitimate questions, in the hopes of making a few readers angry, making most of us laugh, sparking a greater dialogue, and enhancing cross-cultural understanding.

Taco USA

Author : Gustavo Arellano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439148627
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Taco USA written by Gustavo Arellano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a narrative history of Mexican cuisine in the United States, sharing a century's worth of anecdotes and cultural criticism to address questions about culinary authenticity and the source of Mexican food's popularity.

The Magic Journey

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1466859601
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Journey written by John Nichols and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning forty years, the second book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, The Magic Journey, tells the tale of how relentless progress transformed a rural backwater into a boomtown. Boom times came to the forgotten little southwestern town of Chamisaville just as the rest of America was in the Great Depression. They came when a rattletrap bus loaded with stolen dynamite blew sky-high, leaving behind a giant gushing hot spring. Within minutes, the town's wheeler-dealers had organized, and within a year, Chamisaville was flooded with tourists and pilgrims, and the wheeler-dealers were rich. At first, it was a magic time for Chamisaville—almost as if every day were a holiday. But the euphoria gradually dissipated, and the land-hungry developers, speculators, and interlopers moved in. Finally, the day came when Chamisaville's people found themselves all but displaced, their children no longer heirs to their land or their tradition. With mounting intensity, The Magic Journey reaches a climax that is tragically foreordained. A sensitive, vital, and honest chronicle of life in America's Southwest, it is also an incisive commentary on what America has become on its road to progress. The Magic Journey is part of John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, which includes The Milagro Beanfield War and The Nirvana Blues.

Chicano Ethnicity

Author : Susan Emley Keefe
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780826309921
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Chicano Ethnicity written by Susan Emley Keefe and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex relationships among ethnicity, acculturation, and assimilation. In the process of setting forth the first empirical measures of what it means to be a Chicano, the authors overturn many previous research assumptions and conclusions.

Border People

Author : Oscar J. Martínez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816545510
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Border People written by Oscar J. Martínez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the U.S.-Mexico borderlands resemble border regions in other parts of the world, nowhere else do so many millions of people from two dissimilar nations live in such close proximity and interact with each other so intensely. Borderlanders are singular in their history, outlook, and behavior, and their lifestyle deviates from the norms of central Mexico and the interior United States; yet these Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Anglo-Americans also differ among themselves, and within each group may be found cross-border consumers, commuters, and people who are inclined or disinclined to embrace both cultures. Based on firsthand interviews with individuals from all walks of life, Border People presents case histories of transnational interaction and transculturation, and addresses the themes of cross-border migration, interdependence, labor, border management, ethnic confrontation, cultural fusion, and social activism. Here migrants and workers, functionaries and activists, and "mixers" who have crossed cultural boundaries recall events in their lives related to life on the border. Their stories show how their lives have been shaped by the borderlands milieu and how they have responded to the situations they have faced. Border People shows that these borderlanders live in a unique human environment shaped by physical distance from central areas and constant exposure to transnational processes. The oral histories contained here reveal, to a degree that no scholarly analysis can, that borderlanders are indeed people, each with his or her own individual perspective, hopes, and dreams.

Jornalero

Author : Juan Thomas Ordonez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520277856
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Jornalero written by Juan Thomas Ordonez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. These sites, typically frequented by immigrant Latin American men---mostly taken to be 'undocumented' immigrants--constitute an important source of unskilled manual labor that sustains building, landscaping, and moving activities in the country. Despite their ubiquitous presence in urban areas, however, much of the research on immigration overlooks day laborers' very existence. While standing inplain view, these men live and work in a precarious environment: As they try to make enough money to send home, they are at the mercy of unscrupulous employers, doing dangerous and underpaid work, and, ultimately, experiencing great threats to their identities and social roles as men. Born and raised in Colombia by an American mother and Colombian father, Juan Thomas Ord‰oŠnez spent two years on an informal labor site in the Bay Area, documenting the harsh lives led by some of these men during the worst economic crisis the country has seen in decades. Another Latin American among mainly Mexican and Central American day laborers, he gained a vantage on the immigrant experience based on close relationships with a cohort of men whose lives unravel in a setting of competition, stress, loneliness, and resilience. Both eye-opening and heart-breaking, this account offers a unique perspective on how the informal economy of undocumented labor truly functions in American society"--Provided by publisher.

The spaniards and their country

Author : Richard Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The spaniards and their country written by Richard Ford and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chicanas of 18th Street

Author : Leonard G. Ramirez
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209302X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Chicanas of 18th Street written by Leonard G. Ramirez and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overflowing with powerful testimonies of six female community activists who have lived and worked in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Chicanas of 18th Street reveals the convictions and approaches of those organizing for social reform. In chronicling a pivotal moment in the history of community activism in Chicago, the women discuss how education, immigration, religion, identity, and acculturation affected the Chicano movement. Chicanas of 18th Street underscores the hierarchies of race, gender, and class while stressing the interplay of individual and collective values in the development of community reform. Highlighting the women's motivations, initiatives, and experiences in politics during the 1960s and 1970s, these rich personal accounts reveal the complexity of the Chicano movement, conflicts within the movement, and the importance of teatro and cultural expressions to the movement. Also detailed are vital interactions between members of the Chicano movement with leftist and nationalist community members and the influence of other activist groups such as African Americans and Marxists.

Fraser's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Fraser's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

US Guys

Author : Charlie LeDuff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143113065
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book US Guys written by Charlie LeDuff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy “A fearless, clear eyed companion into parts of America that rarely see print.”—Entertainment Weekly Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people and places he profiles. US Guys is his odyssey in search of the truth behind the American man, from a jaded homicide detective in Detroit to a two-bit jockey at a racetrack in Miami to a pair of lovers at a gay rodeo. With audacity, humor, and no small amount of physical pain, he captures a broad diversity of voices as they wrestle with an America they love but increasingly fail to understand.

De colores

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De colores written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Ethnic Revival

Author : Jack F. Kinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book American Ethnic Revival written by Jack F. Kinton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tortilla Curtain

Author : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143119079
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Tortilla Curtain written by T. Coraghessan Boyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of two different couples--wealthy Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, and Candido and America Rincon, a pair of Mexican illegals--suddenly collide, in a story that unfolds from the shifting viewpoints of the various characters.