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Our Migrant Souls

Author : Héctor Tobar
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374609918
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Our Migrant Souls written by Héctor Tobar and published by MCD. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book by the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now. “Latino” is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States, and also one of the most rapidly growing. Composed as a direct address to the young people who identify or have been classified as “Latino,” Our Migrant Souls is the first account of the historical and social forces that define Latino identity. Taking on the impacts of colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, Our Migrant Souls decodes the meaning of “Latino” as a racial and ethnic identity in the modern United States, and gives voice to the anger and the hopes of young Latino people who have seen Latinidad transformed into hateful tropes and who have faced insult and division—a story as old as this country itself. Tobar translates his experience as not only a journalist and novelist but also a mentor, a leader, and an educator. He interweaves his own story, and that of his parents’ migration to the United States from Guatemala, into his account of his journey across the country to uncover something expansive, inspiring, true, and alive about the meaning of “Latino” in the twenty-first century.

Migrant Souls

Author : Arturo Islas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Souls written by Arturo Islas and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Strangers in Paradise

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150132
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book New Strangers in Paradise written by Gilbert H. Muller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbert Muller reveals how the intersections of peoples, regions, and competing cultural histories have remade the American cultural landscape in the aftermath of World War II. Muller focuses on the literature of Holocaust survivors, Chicanos, Latinos, African Caribbeans, and Asian Americans. In the quest for a new identity, each of these groups seeks the American dream and rewrites the story of what it means to be an American. New Strangers in Paradise explores the psychology of uprooted peoples and the relations of culture and power, addressing issues of race and ethnicity, multiculturalism and pluralism, and national and international conflicts. Examining the groups of immigrants in the cultural and historical context both of America and of the lands from which they originated, Muller argues that this "fourth wave" of immigration has led to a creative flowering in modern fiction. The book offers a fresh perspective on the writings of Vladimir Nabokov, Sual Bellow, William Styron, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Oscar Hijuelos, Jamaica Kincaid, Bharati Mukherjee, Rudolfo Anaya, and many others.

Race and the Borderlands in Arturo Islas's Migrant Souls

Author : Renato Rosaldo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and the Borderlands in Arturo Islas's Migrant Souls written by Renato Rosaldo and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature

Author : Luz Elena Ramirez
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140606
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature written by Luz Elena Ramirez and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

On Migration

Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619024330
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book On Migration written by Ruth Padel and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration. "We're all from somewhere else," she begins. "Migration builds civilization but also causes displacement." From the Holy Family's Flight into Egypt, the Lost Colony on Roanoke, and the famous photograph 'Migrant Mother', Padel turns to John James Audubon's journey from Haiti and France, heirlooms carried through Ellis Island, Kennedy's "society of immigrants" and Casa del Migrante on the Mexican border. But she reaches the human story through the millennia–old journeys of cells in our bodies, trees in the Ice Age, Monarch butterflies travelling from Alaska to Mexico. As warblers battle hurricanes over the Caribbean and wildebeest brave a river filled with the largest crocodiles in Africa, she shows that the truest purpose of migration for both humans and animals is survival.

Dancing with Ghosts

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243927
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Ghosts written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical biography of novelist, poet, and former Stanford professor Arturo Islas (1938-1991).

Race

Author : Steven Gregory
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521091
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Race written by Steven Gregory and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What unites these essays is a common focus on the 'social construction' of racial categories and a desire to expose the exercise of racism and its intersection with other forms of social domination such as class, gender, and ethnicity . . . Fascinating."--Multicultural Review "The coming together of theoretical, multiethnic, and 'on-the-ground' perspectives makes this book a particularly valuable contribution to the discourse on race."--Paula Giddings "Timely and thoughtful. . . contributes to our understanding of how race operates as a social process and in the contextualization of power and status."--Contemporary Sociology "A treasure chest full of gems. Virtually every article is fascinating and important, and as a collection, its impact is tremendous. Neo-conservative myths and fantasies fall like nine-pins before its well-researched and tightly argued papers."--Martin Bernal, author of Black Athena "A timely antidote to that reaction tome, The Bell Curve."--Daily News (New York) "Let's be clear from the start what this book is about," writes Roger Sanjek. "Race is the framework of ranked categories, segmenting the human population, that was developed by Western Europeans following their global expansion."To contemporary social scientists, this ranking is baseless, though it has had all-too-real effects. Drawing on anthropology, history, sociology, ethnic studies, and women's studies, this volume explores the role of race in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. The contributors show how racial ideologies intersect with gender, class, nation and sexuality in the formation of complex social identities and hierarchies. The essays address such topics as race and Egyptian nationalism, the construction of "whiteness" in the United States, and the transformation of racial categories in post-colonial Haiti. They demonstrate how social elites and members of subordinated groups construct and rework racial meanings and identities within the context of global political, economic, and cultural change. Race provides a comprehensive and empirically grounded survey of contemporary theoretical approaches to studying the complex interplay of race, power, and identity.

Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert

Author : Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653456X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert written by Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction – Multi-Author Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert addresses the tragic results of government policies on immigration. The contributors consist of a multidisciplinary group who are dedicated to the thousands of men, women, and children who have lost their lives while crossing the desert in search of a better life. Each chapter in this important new volume seeks answers to migrant deaths, speaking to the complexity of this tragedy via a range of community and scholarly approaches. The activists, artists, and scholars included in this volume confront migrant deaths and disappearances in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as they reflect on the startling realities of death, migration, and public policy. Chapters touch on immigration and how it is studied, community responses to crisis, government policy, definitions of citizenship, and the role of the arts and human expression in response to state violence. Collectively the contributions throw a spotlight on the multivocal, transdisciplinary efforts to address the historical silence surrounding this human tragedy. Despite numerous changes in the migration processes and growing attention to the problem, many people who attempt border crossings continue to disappear and die. This book offers a timely exploration of the ways that residents, scholars, activists, and artists are responding to this humanitarian crisis on their doorstep.

Border Matters

Author : José David Saldívar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918363
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Border Matters written by José David Saldívar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas. This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated. Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.

Trans-Americanity

Author : José David Saldívar
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350831
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Trans-Americanity written by José David Saldívar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author critiques the work of various writers within the framework of a globalized study of the Americas.

Arturo Islas

Author : Arturo Islas
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611920642
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Arturo Islas written by Arturo Islas and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prolific poet, essayist, and short story writer, Arturo Islas (1938-1991) is well known for his two insightful novels, The Rain God and Migrant Souls. His untimely death to AIDS truncated a productive and influential career that has left a yawning gap in Latino letters. Islas was a dedicated, thoughtful, and style-conscious writer, who promoted a sense of responsibility to community and art for both writers and critics. The quality of his commitment was matched by the example he set in delving into the esthetics and psychology of gay creativity, an exploration that took him to uncompromising confrontations with his own traditional upbringing. Islas has made his mark as a writer of the U.S.-Mexico border and a leader at the forefront of exploring more social, psychological and philosophical boundaries. As a Chicano from El Paso, as a gay Latino writer, Islas surmounted many boundaries, borders and established roles; in this, he is a standard-bearer for all of Latino literature. A seasoned scholar and professor in the English Department at Stanford University for most of his professional life, Islas maintained an extensive collection of works, records, and papers. The present volume is the product of another Stanford graduate, Frederick Luis Aldama, who combed through the Islas archive and recovered the short fiction, poetry, and essays on Chicano letters that Islas did not have the opportunity to publish. Aldama has organized these materials and edited them so that they may be accessible and ñbroaden the vision of Arturo Islas as writer and thinker.î

Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers

Author : Hector Avalos Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826340887
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Writers written by Hector Avalos Torres and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.

Luis Leal

Author : Mario T. García
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292779992
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Luis Leal written by Mario T. García and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance of Chicano literature, and, through his perceptive literary criticism, helped to legitimize it as a worthy field of study. His contributions to humanistic learning have brought him many honors, including Mexico's Aquila Azteca and the United States' National Humanities Medal. In this testimonio or oral history, Luis Leal reflects upon his early life in Mexico, his intellectual formation at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and his work and publications as a scholar at the Universities of Illinois and California, Santa Barbara. Through insightful questions, Mario García draws out the connections between literature and history that have been a primary focus of Leal's work. He also elicits Leal's assessment of many of the prominent writers he has known and studied, including Mariano Azuela, William Faulkner, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Tomás Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodríguez, and Ana Castillo.

Migrant Song

Author : Teresa McKenna
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788177
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Song written by Teresa McKenna and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration and continuity have shaped both the Chicano people and their oral and written literature. In this pathfinding study of Chicano literature, Teresa McKenna specifically explores how these works arise out of social, political, and psychological conflict and how the development of Chicano literature is inextricably embedded in this fact. McKenna begins by appraising the evolution of Chicano literature from oral forms—including the important role of the corrido in the development of Chicano poetry. In subsequent chapters she examines the works of Richard Rodriguez and Rolando Hinojosa. She also devotes a chapter to the development of the Chicana voice in Chicano literature. Her epilogue considers the parallel development of Chicano literary theory and discusses some possible directions for research. In McKenna's own words, "I believe that the future of this literature, as that of all literatures by people of color in the United States, rests largely on its being effectively introduced into the curricula at all levels, as well as its entrance into the critical consciousness of literary theory." This book will be an important step in that process.

Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature

Author : Rüdiger Heinze
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839440459
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature written by Rüdiger Heinze and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a number of academic fields, among them sociology, history, or ethnology. Surprisingly, literary and cultural studies have been somewhat more reluctant to approach the topic. While there is work on individual authors or, at the very most, particular ethnic groups, comparative approaches are rare. This monograph aims to amend this. It provides an extensive discussion of US-American literature about children of immigrants, comparing different authors, different ethnic groups and different literary and historical contexts.

Migrant Imaginaries

Author : Alicia Schmidt Camacho
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814716482
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Imaginaries written by Alicia Schmidt Camacho and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910. Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, Amrico Parede’s last published novel, The Shadow, the film Salt of the Earth, the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodriguez’s memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and testimonios of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphere’s most pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social change.