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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Syndicated Chicano cartoonist to visit WNMU
SILVER CITY, N.M. — Political cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz, who has been described as perhaps the most prolific Chicano artist in the nation, will be on the Western New Mexico University campus as part of the Raza Alumni Reunion for Homecoming 2015.
On Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m., Alcaraz will give a presentation at the Global Resource Center on campus. He will speak about his experience as a writer and then premiere the first episode of Bordertown, an upcoming American adult animated sitcom. The premiere will be followed by a Q&A opportunity…
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‘Breakout Moment’: More Books Reflect Mexican American Kids, Teens by Juan Castillo
SAN MARCOS, TX. – The growing movement to reflect the lives of Mexican American children and young adults through the power of words has come a long way.
Just ask new U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, who over the weekend told a rapt audience of writers, illustrators and multicultural children’s book advocates at Texas State University, “This is our breakout moment.”
The first Mexican American to hold the position, Herrera spoke at the 2015 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award, which celebrated its 20th anniversary. Herrera spoke excitedly about mounting positive bellwethers – more Latino authors, more interest from Hollywood and from corporate America, “more global interest, more global writers and voices.” …
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From Factory To Classroom: A Worker, A Student — And A Mother
Today, Noramay Cadena is a mechanical engineer, fitted with multiple degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But she came by her motivation in a place much different from the MIT classrooms: a factory in Los Angeles where her mother brought her one summer as a teenager…
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Hispanic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Opens Her Dream Dance School
NEW YORK, NY — Just two years ago, Lily Urzúa came to Queens, New York from Mexico to pursue her dreams of owning a dance company. With one suitcase and $200 in hand, she founded the Urzúa Queens Center of Performing Arts.
She’s realizing her dream, but the Latina entrepreneur concedes it requires more hard work than she expected.
“You just want it that bad that you think, ‘when I’m there everything is going to be nice,'” said Urzúa. “I just want to be enjoying it without suffering it.”…
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George I. Sánchez: The Long Fight for Mexican Integration by Carlos Kevin Blanton (review)
JL Pycior – Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2015
… Today the University of Texas education building bears Sánchez’s name. What really matters,
though, as this definitive account makes clear, is that his words and deeds contributed mightily
to the civil rights advances of Mexican Americans. [End Page 231]. …
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The Effect of Bilingualism on Self-Perceived Multicultural Counseling Competence
R Form, TPC More
… Language switching and Mexican Americans’ emotional expression. Journal of Multicultural
Counseling and Development, 35, 154–168. … Counselor bilingual ability, counselor ethnicity,
acculturation, and Mexican Americans’ perceived counselor credibility. …
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Report: Minority Teachers Are Quitting at Rapid Rates
Although small strides have been made toward diversifying the U.S. school system over the past couple of decades, a new report shows there’s still a long way to go.
At a national level, schools have made progress in the hiring of minority teachers, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute, “The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education.” The attrition amongst minority teachers, however, is higher…
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Mexican Immigrant Family Life in a Pre-emerging Southern Gateway Community
HM Helms, ND Hengstebeck, Y Rodriguez, JL Mendez… – 2015
… This is no less true for Mexican Americans, who are the largest subgroup of Hispanics and make
up the largest group of immigrants in the United States.5 These programs also do not address
the larger contexts in which parents’ marriages and children’s development are …
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CUIDANDO A LOS NUESTROS: ELDER CARE IN THE CONTEMPORARY LATINO FAMILY
J Medina – 2015
… For many Euro-Americans, there exists little difference between Chicana/o, a Mexican
American, a Central American or a Spanish Caribbean native. … For example, Mexican-
Americans reside in the Southwest (eg, California and Texas); Puerto Ricans …
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Coming to America: An Examination of the U.S. Immigration Debate in its Historical Context
JR Davidson – Kaleidoscope, 2015
… arriving in large numbers. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, Americans
in the Southwest, particularly in Los Angeles, believed that Mexican immigrants were
draining the welfare system (Boisson, 2006). In a time when …
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Bilingual Education In California
“They say that if you speak two languages, you’re bilingual. If you speak three or more languages, you’re multilingual,” said Texas Sen. Judith Zaffirini. “And if you speak only one language, well then, you’re an American.”…
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Engaging San Francisco’s Western Addition in a Community Needs Assessment : A Field Work Report
B Walsh-Dahlberg – 2015
… diverse. While large numbers of Filipinos and Mexican Americans populated the
diversified Western Addition, it was the African American and Japanese whose lived
experiences created toady’s Western Addition. The Japanese …
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Exhibit in Dallas to honor Mexican-American veterans
DALLAS (AP) — In 1967, Albert Valtierra, a working-class kid from West Dallas, joined the U.S. Air Force and headed to Vietnam.
The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/1LXLfoQ ) reports his younger sister, Rosemary, marched defiantly to protest the war.
Their mother, Serapia, simply lit velas and prayed the rosary.
Rosemary would marry Ramiro Hinojosa, and together they raised a son named after his father. Ram, as the son was called, enlisted in the Army in 2004 and headed for Iraq. He was motivated by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and by the service of others in his family.
“What did I do wrong?” Rosemary thought.
Then she found herself lighting velas in prayer.
The family’s story is one of many portrayed in a photo and video exhibit and lecture series highlighting Mexican-American veterans from the Dallas area. The montage covers more than 100 years in more than 1,000 photos portraying about 400 service members…
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FACTORS DIETETICS STUDENTS CONSIDER WHEN APPLYING TO INTERNSHIP
RS Flores – 2015
… obesity and disease, and their current data show that, among adults, Mexican Americans are
more likely to be obese compared to non-Hispanic Whites and Asians. … compared Mexican
Americans in a settled community to Mexican American migrant farm workers. They …
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Racial Wealth Gap Persists Despite Degree, Study Says
Study by researchers at Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis finds that while black and Hispanic graduates accumulate more wealth than non-graduates, they fare far worse than their white and Asian counterparts during periods of financial trouble; findings undermine long-held concept of college education as an economic equalizer…
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WAGE DISPARITY OF NON – HISPANIC WHITE AND MEXICAN POPULATIONS IN CALIFORNIA
B Huang – 2015
… and Wealth, 52(1), 17-42. Cobb-Clark, DA, & Hildebrand, VA (2006b). The Wealth of Mexican
Americans. Journal of Human Resources, 41(4), 841-868. Page 39. … Trejo, SJ (1997). Why do
Mexican Americans earn low wages?. Journal of Political Economy, 105(6), 1235-1268. …
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Epidemiology of Headache
U Uygunoglu, A Siva – Pharmacological Management of Headaches, 2015
… In the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which was conducted by the National Center
for Health Statistics, overall prevalence was estimated as 14.3% in Whites, 14.0% in Blacks, 9.2%
in Asians, 12.9% in Hispanics, 11.9% in Mexican Americans, and 17.7% in Native …
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Patterns of Variation in Botanical Supplement Use among Hispanics and Latinos in the United States
KR Faurot, AC Filipelli, C Poole, PM Gardiner – Epidemiol, 2015
… Volume 5 • Issue 3 • 1000195 Epidemiol ISSN: 2161-1165 Epidemiol, an open access journal
US-Mexican border, botanical use may be less common because it is less available. … Loera, 2001,
J Gerontology [22] National cohort study (EPESE), probability, Older Mexican Am. …
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Uh oh…bad news on SAT test results
Teenagers who took the SAT test during the latest standardized testing season performed worse on the controversial test than they have in many years.
Students generated reading scores that were the lowest since the College Board began releasing annual reports in 1972; the math scores were the worst since 1999. The score for the writing section, which was launched in 2006, was the lowest ever…
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School dedicated for ‘forgotten’ Mexican-American scholar
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Decades after leaving New Mexico in disgrace, a noted Mexican-American scholar and key figure in school desegregation got a school dedicated in his honor in his hometown of Albuquerque…
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