Every Day is Magic: Ada Limón
In her 2015 collection, Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award finalist for poetry, Ada Limón writes of moving to Kentucky: “Confession: I did not want to live here.” It’s perhaps not a surprising sentiment coming from a coastally oriented person who was raised in Northern California, attended college in Seattle, and then spent over a decade in New York City.
But Limón and her husband, Lucas, have been in Lexington for seven years now and the effects of settling into this place are noticeable in her new book, The Carrying (Milkweed, Aug.). It’s a phenomenally lively and attentive collection replete with the trappings of living a little closer to nature. While Bright Dead Things is marked by a preponderance of light, such as images of fireflies and neon signs, The Carrying features numerous appearances by various trees, birds, and beetles. Limón also demonstrates a greater willingness to be explicit in naming colors, particularly green. “It’s crazy green, the whole book,” she says. “Lexington is the greenest place I’ve ever lived.” Similarly, where in Bright Dead Things, Limón tells a lot of stories and anecdotes, in The Carrying she is very present in her thoughts and experiences.
As it turns out, these shifts in focus have another, altogether unexpected source. While putting Bright Dead Things together, Limón was diagnosed with chronic vestibular neuronitis, which can cause bouts of vertigo. “If I’m really having vertigo, it’s pretty intense and I really have to focus,”
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In this town, it’s as if Hollywood tries not to cast Latinos
In Hollywood, there is no Magical Latino.
That honey-tongued Mexican American dude who can help the white guy with his golf game while, more important, imparting life lessons before disappearing over the horizon? He doesn’t exist. That Salvadoran woman wisely guiding the “Chosen One” — another white guy — through an alternate-reality maze to his appointed destiny? You won’t find her…
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu is Best Director Oscar 2016 Winner for The Revenant
This is the sixth Academy Award nomination for Alejandro G. Iñárritu and his fourth win. During his acceptance speech, Iñárritu thanked his father and gave a shout out to Oscar nominee, Leonardo DiCaprio…
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INCORPORTATION OF LATINO POLICE OFFICERS INTO THE M ILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT: HOW A GROUP OF LATINO POLICE OFFICERS SHED THE “BLUE SHIELD” FOR A LATINO IDENTITY
AG Guajardo jr – 2015
… 87 ZERO SUM HIRING 90 CONCLUSION 91 Page 6. v CHAPTER 3 MILWAUKEE POLICE
AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS 94 MEXICAN AMERICANS 100 PUERTO RICANS 104
ORGANIZING THE LATINO COMMUNITY IN MILWAUKEE 105 …
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Internet Flips Over College Gymnast’s Almost Perfect Routine
UCLA gymnast Sophina DeJesus not only helped her team squeak out a victory against Utah on Saturday, but her floor performance has managed to win the Internet.
Judges gave the 21-year-old senior a near-perfect 9.925 for her magnificent flips, tumbles and splits, according to Popsugar.
But it’s the hip-hop moves she made in between those physical feats that have made her a viral sensation…
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Mechanisms of declining intra-ethnic trust in newly diverse immigrant destinations [ post-print]
AF Williamson – 2015
… 23 whether the local schools should employ bilingual education as opposed to English immersion.
In Yakima, some prominent Mexican-Americans who experienced the Chicano movement eschew
cooperation with Anglo institutions for fear of co-optation. More recent Mexican …
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Ancestry variation and footprints of natural selection along the genome in Latin American populations
L Deng, A Ruiz-Linares, S Xu, S Wang – Scientific Reports, 2016
… 2. Basu, A. et al. Genome-wide distribution of ancestry in Mexican
Americans . Hum. Genet. 124, 207–214 (2008). …
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Intergenerational Influences in Body Image Among Mexican American Obese Adolescent Females and Their Maternal Caregivers: ¿ Llenita no más ?
YA Marroquin
… Grounded Theory and thematic analysis were utilized to examine interview responses from
Mexican and Mexican American adolescent females with obesity, their … family members, peers
and friends, and medical professionals). In addition, the messages …
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How being a bilingual speaker might make your brain stronger
During a presentation this past weekend at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC, Judith Kroll, a psychologist at Penn State who studies bilingualism, described how speaking both English and Spanish “changes the architecture of your brain,” and that being bilingual could literally making your brain stronger…
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Jessica Alba’s father is Mexican American. She is an actress and founder of The Honest Company
Jessica Alba is a Golden Globe-nominated actress whose career includes roles in films such as “Fantastic Four” and “Little Fockers,” as well as television series like “Dark Ang Jessica Alba | Founder
Jessicel,” “The Office” and “Entourage.”
The California native comes from modest beginnings, and never lost her zeal to share her good fortune with others. She is actively involved with with charities such as Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, ONE, Habitat for Humanity, Project HOME and more…
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THE INTERSECTION OF AGRICULTURE, LATINAS/OS, AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE LAND GRANT SYSTEM: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
SL Archibeque-Engle – 2016
… The life span of a Mexican farm laborer is 56- he lived to be 38.” Gloria Anzaldúa in
Borderlands La Frontera, p. 112 … They went to bed as Spanish speaking Mexican citizens
and woke up as Spanish speaking American citizens (or at least …
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Writing the Good Life: Mexican American Literature and the Environment
PS Ybarra – 2016
… Writing 3 1 epistemological hierarchy and the environment: erasure of Mexican American
Knowledge in … The professionals at the New Mexico State Archives answered questions before
I … I have met so many colleagues at conferences and through professional organizations …
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Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention
Overview of Mexican Americans
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SALUD, GÉNERO Y EMPODERAMIENTO hiv risk behavior knowledge among Mexican and Mexican American women along the U. S.-Mexico border Implications for health practices in clinical and community settings
BM Mancera, H Mata, LK Robbins… – SALUD
… The role of the fe- male is clearly defined within the Mexican and Mexican American cultures. …
Mental health professionals in El Paso, Texas have reported to us that their caseload of Mexican
refugees and traumatized mi- grants has exploded over the past two years–especially …
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John G. Florez Chemical engineering has taken this ACS Scholar around the world
Mexican American chemical engineer John G. Florez, 39, grew up with his parents working seven long days each week in their car body shop in the town of Las Cruces, N.M., close to the Mexican border. “We were pretty challenged financially,” Florez says. Neither of his parents had a college education. But both encouraged their son to get one as a vehicle to a better life…
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United States, Canada and Mexico to recognize each other’s arquitects
Architectural licensing bodies in the United States, Canada and Mexico have forged an agreement to allow architects to work across North American borders.
Following a decade of negotiations, the Canadian Architectural Licensing Authorities (CALA), the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) in the US and the Federacion de Colegios de Arquitectos de la Republica Mexicana (FCARM) have finalised an agreement that will allow registered architects to work across all three countries.
Currently, individuals have to register with the governing body of each country to be able to legally call themselves architects when working abroad…
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Study: Biculturalism has positive effect on Mexican-American youth
COLUMBIA, Mo., Feb. 10 (UPI) — New research suggests biculturalism has positive effects on young Mexican-Americans.
According to new survey data, Mexican-Americans who are connected to both American and Latino culture tend to have higher self-esteem and engage in prosocial behaviors, like empathizing with others.
The surveys were conducted researchers at the University of Missouri and included the responses of 574 Mexican-American adolescents living in Phoenix, Ariz…
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The Collision of Cultural Memories on the Texas_Mexico Border
GW Gómez – How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in …, 2016
… Texan memory carries traces of the coun-terdiscursive practices voiced in the nineteenth-and
early twentieth-century corrido,“a Mexican folk ballad that celebrates the resistance of Mexican
Amer-ican everyman against the oppression of Anglo Americans”(Sorensen 112). …
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Eating Together, Separately: Intergroup Communication and Food in a Multiethnic Community
A Wenzel – International Journal of Communication, 2016
… feeling ‘other.’ And you feel like your neighborhood is being invaded by people who are other
‘other’—and they seem to be the ones that everybody’s interested in.” He said he’s seen similar
divisions before, such as between African Americans and Mexican immigrants in …
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The Health of Mexican-American in South Texas
ER Dean
… Care Physicians Engaged in Direct Patient Care as Major Professional Activity: December … Health
Program Resources and Financing,” we discuss the health professionals and facilities … Conditions
Among Mexican-Americans in South Texas The Mexican-American population of …
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LULAC Hits Goal of 10,000 Iowa Latinos Pledging to Caucus
Leaders of a group that has been trying to increase Latino participation in Iowa’s caucuses said Monday they hit their goal of getting at least 10,000 Latinos to pledge to participate.
Joe Enriquez Henry, LULAC’s national vice president for the Midwest region, was upbeat when reached by NBC News Latino Monday morning as LULAC Iowa made its final push to get Latinos out to the first-in-the-nation caucus for their choices of presidential nominees…
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