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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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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How The SAG Awards Nailed What the Oscars Could Never Get Right
Amid the controversy enveloping the Oscars this year, the Screen Actors Guild Awards made diversity the big winner Saturday night [January 30, 2016].
Among the winners were Queen Latifah for her role in HBO’s Bessie, Viola Davis for her work as Annalise Keating on How to Get Away with Murder and Uzo Aduba who took the prize for Best Actress in a TV Comedy for Orange Is the New Black…
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Latina Lives in Milwaukee
T Delgadillo – 2015 – books.google.com
102 days ago – … people of many different backgrounds and experiences but that there are many
forms of achievement—personal, professional, communal—large … local troupe, whether it involved
actors posing as French and Mexican or actual Mexican or Mexican American performers …
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Case Studies in Teaching Evolution: The Intersection of Dilemmas in Practice
RJ Fisher – nabt.org
36 days ago – … and had a large population of Mormon students, while the other district was urban,
with a large majority Mexican/Mexican- American students. … This study’s findings will inform
in-service and pre-service teachers’ future practice and professional development tools to aid …
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Racial and ethnic differences in leaving and returning to the parental home: The role of life course transitions, socioeconomic resources, and family connectivity
L Lei, S South – Demographic Research, 2016
… Using the answers to the question of whether a respondent has Spanish, Hispanic,
or Latino background, we divide the respondents into three groups: non-Hispanics,
Mexicans (including Mexican Americans) and other Hispanics. …
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IDENTIDAD RASGADO Y LA LENGUA PERDIDA : THE IMPACT OF A TRADITIONAL LITERARY CANON ON LATINO PERCEPTIONS OF IDENTITY
A Hernandez – 2015
… Web. 8 Dec. 2015. Urrieta, Luis. “Identity Production in Figured Worlds: How Some Mexican
Americans Become Chicana/O Activist Educators.” Urban Review 39.2 (2007): 117- 144.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 8 Dec. 2015…
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latina/o Sociology
R Sáenz, KM Douglas, MC Morales – Expanding the Human in Human Rights: …, 2015
… Due in part to the lobbying efforts of Mexican American leaders who argued that
Mexican Americans were white (Snipp 2003, 69), the issue of how to classify the
Latina/o population of the United States remained a work in progress. …
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Millennials Make Up Almost Half of Latino Eligible Voters in 2016
Hispanic millennials will account for nearly half (44%) of the record 27.3 million Hispanic eligible voters projected for 2016—a share greater than any other racial or ethnic group of voters, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data…
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