Looking out, looking in : anthology of latino Poesía
The poems included in this comprehensive anthology run the gamut of styles and themes, but all are by Latinos writing from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Some deal with issues specific to the Hispanic experience, such as displacement, identity and language. Others ponder universal concerns, such as love, Familia and humanity.
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Our lost border : essays on life amid the narco-violence
En su ensayo lamentando la pérdida de la Tijuana de su juventud, Richard Mora recuerda las noches festivas en la Avenida Revolución, donde los turistas se mezclaban con los lugareños en los bares. Ahora, los turistas se han ido, al igual que los vendedores ambulantes indígenas que vendían artesanías hechas a mano a lo largo de la amplia avenida. En su lugar, las calles están llenas de puestos de control del ejército y soldados armados con rifles de asalto. "Abundan múltiples verdades y, por lo tanto, me veo obligado a forjar mi propia verdad a partir de los relatos mediáticos: los soldados encapuchados, como los pequeños soldados de plástico verde que solía guardar en una caja de zapatos de cartón, son héroes o villanos, víctimas o victimarios, dependiendo de la hora del día", escribe.
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In defense of my people : Alonso S. Perales and the development of Mexican-American public intellectuals
One of the most influential Mexican Americans of his time, Alonso S. Perales (1898-1960) is the subject of this engrossing collection of scholarly essays. A graduate of George Washington University School of Law, he was one of the earliest Mexican-American attorneys to practice law in Texas and was sworn into the bar in 1926. Perales helped found the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), served his country in several diplomatic capacities and was a prolific writer. In Defense of My Peoplesheds light on Perales' activism and the history of Mexican-American and Latino civil rights...
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To the last man I slept with and all the jerks just like him
With dark, knife-in-the ribs humor and poignant glimpses of youth and early adulthood, Gwendolyn Zepeda"s first book is the literati"s version of television variety shows of the 1970s. Chock full of sharp observations in a narrative that jumps from personal essay to a parody of romance novels to inventive fiction, this collection spans a wide range of themes: the complications of being a "half-white child of hippies born in Houston in 1971" and raised in a largely Mexican barrio. . . "How to Be a Trailer Trash Housewife". . . and a midnight dance with a giant cockroach. Though her creations aren"t...
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To the last man I slept with and all the jerks just like him
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Falling in love with fellow prisoners : poems
"Drive back and forth/A rush-hour tide/I strive to regain that feeling I felt/When I thought that this was worth it. /The drive is gray. /I cry. " Gwendolyn Zepeda, a Houston native who has struggled to escape the inner-city barrio she grew up in, wonders why she"s crying about her long commute to the suburbs. "I"m driving towards something I sure/Can"t complain about, something my/Parents could never have had. "
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The accidental native
When Rennie"s parents die in a freak accident, he does what they would have wanted and buries them in Puerto Rico, their homeland. There, he"s shocked to discover that the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. A high-powered attorney, his birth mother Julia is determined to reclaim the son she gave up many years before. Adrift, with no Familia in New York and haunted by memories, Rennie is swayed by Julia"s constant pleading that he move to the island. A teaching job at a college in Puerto Rico decides it, and he finds himself flying "home" to a place and culture he knows only through...
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River of Angels
The West was always described as a place where anything was possible, and Los Angeles was the heart of that promise. Alejandro Morales introduces two very different families, and an unpredictable river, to tell of the promise and allure of Southern California, where the unexpected is the norm, where names tell a hidden story. From these two families of bridge builders emerges a story of interconnectedness, a unique system of relations linking both sides of the river. Through the Rivers and the Kellers" families, we enter a multi-cultural sphere of darkness and despair juxtaposed with hope and joy;...
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Confessions of a book burner : personal essays and stories
La escritora y activista Lucha Corpi tenía cuatro años cuando comenzó el primer grado junto a su hermano mayor, quien se negó a ir a la escuela sin ella. El director de la pequeña escuela en Jáltipan de Morelos, en el estado mexicano de Veracruz, conocía a la familia y le dio permiso a la niña para acompañar a su hermano "solo por un tiempo". Le asignaron un pupitre en la parte trasera del aula, donde se sentaba en silencio en su pequeño rincón. Tan silenciosamente como aprendió a sumar y restar, a leer y escribir. En esta conmovedora memoria, Corpi escribe sobre el papel fundamental que la lectura y la escritura desempeñaron en su vida. Como joven madre viviendo en un país extranjero, lamentando la pérdida de su matrimonio y temiendo su capacidad para cuidar financieramente a su hijo, recurrió a la escritura para dar voz a su dolor.
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The nature of truth
A graduate student at Yale University, Helmut Sanchez has discovered an ugly truth about his boss, a world-renowned German professor. In a letter written more than fifty years ago, Professor Werner Hopfgartner absolved Austria of any guilt for its participation in the Second World War. What kind of sick mind would rationalize away the murder of millions of Jews, gypsies and other subversives, Helmut wonders. And how can it be that he has been helping, and even admiring, such a person? As the young researcher continues his quest for answers, he uncovers something even more horrific, something that...
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The little devil and the rose : Lotería poems = El diablito y la rosa : Poemas de la lotería
Cálidos recuerdos de familiares se entrelazan a lo largo de esta colección de 54 poemas, en inglés y español, que utiliza las imágenes de las cartas de la lotería para rendir homenaje a la vida en pequeñas localidades de la comunidad mexicoamericana a lo largo de la frontera entre Texas y México.
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The little devil and the rose : Lotería poems = El diablito y la rosa : Poemas de la lotería