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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A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States
A record 33.7 million Hispanics of Mexican origin resided in the United States in 2012, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data by Pew Research Center. This estimate includes 11.4 million immigrants born in Mexico and 22.3 million born in the U.S. who self-identified as Hispanics of Mexican origin.
by Ana Gonzalez-Barrera and Mark Hugo Lopez
Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States
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Mexican Roots for Majority of Latino Americans
Mexican Latinos make up more than two thirds of all Latinos in the United States, according to a new Pew Hispanic report.
Of the 51.9 million Latinos living in the United States in 2011, more than 33.5 million trace their family back to Mexico.
The report looked at demographic data collected from the 2011 American Community Survey. The report also examined U.S. citizenship, education levels and median income among U.S. Hispanics.
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Journalist Alfredo Corchado says it’s ‘Midnight in Mexico’
By Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
June 14, 2013, 8:00 a.m.
Journalist Alfredo Corchado has had a front seat to many of the most important events of recent Mexican history. In the 1980s he covered the protests in Northern Mexico that foreshadowed the end of one-party rule, and he was later a Mexico City correspondent for the Dallas Morning News. In 2000, he conducted the first interview with President-elect Vicente Fox, the opposition candidate…
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Northrop Grumman engineer named Woman of the Year by Mexican American group
Ana Luisa Ramirez, a system engineering manager in the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting Systems Division at Northrop Grumman in Linthicum, has been named Woman of the Year by the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation.
She received the honor in recognition of her professional achievements and service to the Hispanic community. At Northrop Grumman, Ramirez leads the systems engineering integration and test function for an international program.
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Do Peers Contribute to the Achievement Gap between Vietnamese-American and Mexican-American Adolescents?
MT Duong, D Schwartz, CA McCarty – Social Development, 2013
… We recruited participants from a middle school with sizeable numbers of Mexican-American and
Vietnamese-American students in order to identify a … fathers (96.0 percent) and 75.4 percent of
mothers were employed outside the home, with most working at non-professional jobs …
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Google staffers, janitors pair up for ESL
It’s close to quitting time at Google. Some employees unwind with a beach volleyball game, others whiz off the Mountain View campus on motorized skateboards, and a few are meditating in the Zen garden.
But for Google mapping software engineer Ben Lindahl, his other job
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Mexican professionals adjust to new lives in US
By Thalia Longoria \ EL PASO TIMES
Posted: 09/06/2011 12:00:00 AM MDT
Eva Luna was a successful manager at an auto dealership in Juárez for almost 20 years.
Her position at Touché Motors in Juárez allowed her to live in comfort without any financial concerns. She owned a three-bedroom home and, once in a while, enjoyed some luxuries.
That lifestyle ended unexpectedly…
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Health Behavior Changes following Breast Cancer Treatment: A Qualitative Comparison among Chinese American, Korean American, and Mexican American Survivors
J Lim, P Gonzalez, MF Wang-Letzkus, O Baik… – … of Health Care for the Poor …, 2013
… and ethnically appropriate strategies for promoting healthy behaviors for Chinese American,
Korean American, and Mexican American BCS, who … in the health behavior changes among ethnic
minorities will assist both ethnic minorities and health care professionals to effectively …
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A Qualitative Study of the Day-to-Day Lives of Obese Mexican-American Adolescent Females
SA Taylor, BH Garland, BE Sanchez-Fournier, KF Allen… – Pediatrics, 2013
… Interview content was developed from empirical research, clinical experience, and consultation
with Mexican-American researchers and adolescents to … Interviews conducted in English were
transcribed by a professional tran- scription service and reviewed and corrected by a …
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The role of social cognitive factors in Mexican American students’ educational goals and performance: A longitudinal analysis
PO Garriott, LY Flores – Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 2013
… Participants were 90 Mexican American students recruited from a public high school in the
Southwestern region of the United States as … school” (13.3%), “went to college but did not graduate”
(14.4%), “completed college” (15.6%), and “had graduate/professional training” (7.8 …
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Older U.S.-Born Mexican-Americans Have More Physical Limitations Than Mexican American Immigrants
Newswise — TORONTO, ON —New research indicates that Mexican-Americans born in the United States who are aged 55 and over are significantly more likely than Mexican-American immigrants to report that they have substantial limitations in one or more basic physical activities such as walking, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting, or carrying. (30% versus 25%).
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Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, known for bold splashes of color and humanism, dies at 80
Ricardo Legorreta, the award-winning Mexican architect who designed the Max Palevsky Residential Commons at the University of Chicago, has died at age 80, the San Antonio Express-News reports.
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Mexican American integration slow, education stalled, study finds
UCLA report charts Chicano experience over four decades
By Letisia Marquez March 20, 2008
Second-, third- and fourth-generation Mexican Americans speak English fluently, and most prefer American music. They are increasingly Protestant, and some may even vote for a Republican candidate…
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Family cohesion, acculturation, maternal cortisol, and preterm birth in Mexican-American women
RJ Ruiz, RH Pickler, CN Marti, N Jallo – International Journal of Women’s Health, 2013
… and preterm birth in Mexican-American women … Objective: To examine the potential moderating
effects of family cohesion and acculturation on the physiological stress response (cortisol) as
a predictor of preterm birth (PTB) in pregnant Mexican-American women. …
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Associations Between Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping and the Metabolic Syndrome in High- Vs. Low-Acculturated Mexican American Women
S Shivpuri, MA Allison, CA Macera, S Lindsay… – American Journal of …, 2013
… This study is part of a larger evaluation of sociocultural factors related to CVD risk in Mexican
American women. … as (i) less than 9th grade; (ii) 9th –11th grade; (iii) high school diploma or
equivalent; (iv) some college; (v) bachelors degree; and (vi) graduate or professional degree …
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Psychoecological Model of Alcohol Use in Mexican American Adolescents
H Chun, E Devall, P Sandau-Beckler – The Journal of Primary Prevention
… Parents, teachers, mental health professionals, business leaders, and community leaders
must work together to support Mexican American youth before they detach from social
institutions and turn to alcohol use as a coping mechanism
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Mexican American Women’s Activism at Indiana University in the 1990s
E Hernandez – The Journal of Higher Education, 2013
… to work on retention, that that was important, that he was going to try to bring in instructors and
other professionals into the … The narratives of these seven Mexican American women activists
offer a historical accounting of Indiana University during a tumultuous decade of racial …
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From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
ER Escobedo
… enclosure at Douglas Aircraft, 1945 & Black, Mexican, and white women sewing together at the
Pacific Parachute Company in San Diego, 1942 % Members of the Sefioritas USO, 1943 11 A
Mexican American clerical worker … By far my greatest professional thanks go to Vicki Ruiz …
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New Contexts for Curanderismo: Recasting Mexican American Folk Healing within American Metaphysical Religion
B Hendrickson – Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2013
… Elena Avila’s work with apprentices began with occasional workshops with medical
professionals who wanted to deepen their knowledge of Mexican American healing
traditions. In these workshops, Avila modeled her particular …
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The Little School of the 400: A Mexican-American Fight for Equal Access and its Impact on State Policy
E Vázquez Ríos – 2013
… History, Department of 5-1-2013 The Little School of the 400: A Mexican-American Fight for Equal
Access and its Impact on State Policy … Vázquez Ríos, Erasmo, “The Little School of the 400: A
Mexican-American Fight for Equal Access and its Impact on State Policy” (2013). …
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