This is a timely story for readers as it reminds us that America is a nation of immigrants, where we must learn about each other and celebrate our differences. Ruth Freeman grew up in rural Pennsylvania but now lives in Maine where she teaches students who are English language learners, incl...
Contemporary Mexican American Women Novelists: Toward a Feminist Identity. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.Griswold del Castillo, Richard: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Confict. Norman: U of Okalhoma P, 1990.Gutierrez, David. Walls and Mirrors: Mesican Americans, Mexican Immigrants,...
Didactic Books about Immigrants I’m an immigrant too! – fox. centered on australia, even the US version(?). “My parents come from China- they think Australia’s great. Now we live in Canberra and call out, “G’day mate!” Ooof. that rhyming. so painful. references cities(?) and...
The first of two bibliographies describes 20 children's books about Mexican Americans; the history, government, people and economics of Central and South A... I Schon - 《Journal of Youth Services in Libraries》 被引量: 0发表: 1989年 Librarians in Children's Literature, 1909-2000 Summary The...
🙂 Another one for your list might be Winifred Conklin’s SYLVIA & AKI, a non-fiction account of two girls–one a Mexican immigrant and the other a Japanese-American girl whose family is sent to an Internment camp during WWII. Reply mary says: January 16, 2015 at 8:40 pm Can you ...
The most distinguishedcompositionto issue from these endeavours wasGrandeza mexicana(1604; “Mexican Greatness” or “The Magnificence of Mexico City”), a long poem in praise of Mexico City byBernardo de Balbuena. A highly elaborate piece, Balbuena’s poem celebrates Mexico City as the crossroads...
The most distinguishedcompositionto issue from these endeavours wasGrandeza mexicana(1604; “Mexican Greatness” or “The Magnificence of Mexico City”), a long poem in praise of Mexico City byBernardo de Balbuena. A highly elaborate piece, Balbuena’s poem celebrates Mexico City as the crossroads...
Quinones moves around in the conversation from legit (and less legit) science labs to Mexican drug cartels and meth factories, from those suffering from inevitable relapse (getting off these modern-day versions of the drugs is so much harder than with other addictions) to the history of the ...
Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one student. But suddenly, Elizabeth’s own country took away the most important right a child has: a right to...
About the Author: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was born in the Rio Grande Valley to Mexican immigrants. She is the author of Beast Meridian, which received a Whiting Award, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award nomination, and the Texas Institute of Letters John A. Robertson Award. She was a 2021 Nat...