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 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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Meet 19-Year-Old Ismael Fernández, Elected to Idaho’s First All-Latino City Council
In Wilder, Idaho – where 75 percent of the population is Latino – a completely Latino city council has taken shape. And 19-year-old College of Idaho student Ismael Fernández is one of the council members who will influence law in Wilder. Mayor Alicia Almazán’s city council group includes Tila Godina, Robert Rivera, and Guadalupe García. Univision reports that this is the first all-Latino city council in Idaho…
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More Millennial Than Latino
More Millennial Than Latino
As millennials embrace progressive politics, the conservative Latino narrative is unraveling.
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton attend a rally during a campaign event, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015, in San Antonio.
A new generation is charting its own course in politics and ideology. Latinos represented 8.4 percent of voters in the 2012 presidential election, and because the Latino population is increasing, much ink has been spilled about their future influence on American electoral outcomes. But population size is just one moving target. One such monumental shift is that while only 46 percent of Latino 34-year-olds were born in the U.S., 81 percent of Latino 18-year-olds were, according to the American Community Survey…
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Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities
A Hurtado, M Sinha – 2016 – books.google.com
Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border,
machismo—a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men’s
attitudes and behavior—is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social …
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Both Mexico and the US Are to Blame for Ruthless Drug Lords Like El Chapo
Sean Penn, actor and activist, has made a name for himself as something of a renegade journalist, pursuing interviews with controversial figures such as Cuban leader Raul Castro, the late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, and most recently Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Penn’s interview with El Chapo is perhaps his most provocative, for the narcotics trafficker has been America’s most wanted man since the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. While the interview, printed in Rolling Stone, is certainly intriguing, it is important to remember how much of a point of contention the war on drugs has become for the United States and its southern neighbor. Since the 1960s, relations between the U.S. and Mexico have grown increasingly strained due to not only the growing presence of drug cartels in Mexico, but the seemingly endless flow of firearms south and the insatiable American appetite for marijuana, heroin, and cocaine. As the U.S. and Mexico negotiate the extradition of the world’s most powerful drug trafficker from his home base in Sinaloa state to a correctional facility somewhere north of the border, distrust between the two countries remains palpable, particularly after El Chapo’s previous escapes from two out of Mexico’s three maximum security prisons…
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Job Opportunities for Latinos — Marketing Specialist
Information is the key to success these days especially in business. Most companies, entrepreneurs and organization are even willing to spend millions just to gather important details they can use to know more and understand their customers. That’s why jobs that are inclined to its niche, like Market Specialists, have a projected demand increase of about 41 percent from 2010 to 2020…
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Latinos Who Won Big At The 73rd Golden Globe Awards
When the cameras weren’t at the heels of Jennifer Lopez in her swoon-worthy daffodil Giambattista Valli gown or catching America Ferrera and Eva Longoria’s classy shade for Latina’s in Hollywood, the cameras saw Latinos making their mark in film and television.
Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu (pictured above) won Best Director for the motion picture drama The Revenant, which also won Best Motion Picture Drama…
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Skin Protection Behaviors among Young Male Latino Day Laborers: An Exploratory Study Using a Social Cognitive Approach
JF Boyas, VK Nahar, RT Brodell – Dermatology Research and Practice, 2016
… 26]. If a Spanish version was a not available, the research team, which consisted
of two Mexican Americans, one Peruvian, and one Venezuelan, translated the
instruments. All translations were first carried out independently. …
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Mexican Astrophysicist Leticia Corral Recognized for ‘Cyclical Universe’ Discovery Which Corrects Stephen Hawking’s Mistake
A Latin American astrophysicist has debunked Stephen Hawking’s assertions about the origin of the universe.
Mexican cosmologist Leticia Corral has been recognized for her career-defining theory about how the universe came into existence. Contrary to what the world-renowned astrophysicist has been advocating over the years, Corral believes the universe is cyclical…
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Religion, Race/Ethnicity, and Norms of Intergenerational Assistance among Older Adults
CG Ellison, X Xu – Religions, 2015
… Results indicate that African Americans and Hispanics tend to express stronger support for
intergenerational assistance than non-Hispanic Whites. … Keywords: religion; race; African
Americans; Latinos; aging; intergenerational assistance 1. Introduction …
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Hispanic Heritage Foundation Honors Outstanding Local Student
Thomas Jefferson T-STEM Early College High School senior, Jessica Zamarripa, received a gold award from The Hispanic Heritage Foundation. She was one of 21 award recipients at the Rio Grande Valley regional Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards ceremony on Dec. 10. As the gold medalist in the engineering and mathematics category, sponsored by ExxonMobil, Zamarripa was awarded a $3,000 scholarship to support her plans to pursue a degree in aerospace engineering at The University of Texas at Austin…
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Mexico Stubbornly Resists Accountability
When he campaigned for the presidency of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto used the title of his book, “Mexico, the Great Hope,” to explain the record he hoped to achieve and the nation he hoped to build. More than three years into his presidency, it seems more likely that he will be remembered not as the transformational leader Mexicans thought they had elected, but as a politician who skirted accountability at every turn…
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One Test is not Enough: Getting to Really Know your Students
SL Osorio – … Early Childhood Education Research: Imagining New …, 2015
… Mexicans were not wanted here in the United States. This is a complicated issue for
many of my students since the majority of them are Mexican Americans. This
conversation between Alejandra and Lucia demonstrates the complex …
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Hispanic Chamber seeks scholarship applicants
The Solano Hispanic Chamber of Commerce seeks applicants for scholarships available to high school seniors and college students who attend schools in Solano County. Chamber leaders will award two $1,500 scholarships to college students, and two $750 scholarships to high school seniors. The scholarships are called “2016 Inspire Learning.”…
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