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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Linking Acculturation Patterns, Acculturative Stress, and Education Policies to Educational Competence among Mexican-American Children
YM Kim – 2013
Page 1. Linking Acculturation Patterns, Acculturative Stress, and Education Policies to
Educational Competence among Mexican-American Children Yoon Mi Kim … mentor. I am very
grateful for your valuable academic and professional advice and for sharing …
Link to dissertation
Trajectories of Mexican American and Mainstream Cultural Values Among Mexican American Adolescents
GP Knight, CD Basilio, H Cham, NA Gonzales, Y Liu… – Journal of Youth and …, 2013
… This sample of Mexican American families was diverse with respect to both SES and language
(Roosa et al. 2008). … professional experience in a social service agency), strong in communication
and organizational skills, and knowl- edgeable about computers. …
Link to abstract
Attitudes of Mexican American Students Towards Learning English as a Second Language in a Structured Immersion Program
DU MARTÍNEZ, JG PÉREZ, DM FERNÁNDEZ – PORTA LINGUARUM, 2013
… pp. 205-221 Attitudes of Mexican American Students Towards … ABSTRACT: This study involves
the examination of the attitudes of a group of Mexican American students towards learning
English as a second language in a struc- tured immersion program. …
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Predictors of Mexican American Nursing Student Academic Success
BJ Gonzalez – 2013
… 55 Social Support and the Mexican American Family ….. 58 … and ideas of these racial
and ethnic groups; and 3) sharing of professional development … workforce is especially
important. When compared to all other health care professionals …
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The Role of Family Support and Parental Monitoring as Mediators in Mexican American Adolescent Drinking Read More
M Pagan Rivera, D DePaulo – Substance Use & Misuse, 2013
… ORIGINAL ARTICLE. The Role of Family Support and Parental Monitoring as Mediators in Mexican
American Adolescent Drinking. … Analysis of the data utilizes multiple regression to identify risks and
protective factors of adolescent drinking in Mexican American youth. …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Maternal Warmth Moderates the Link between Harsh Discipline and Later Externalizing Behaviors for Mexican American Adolescents
M Germán, NA Gonzales, D Bonds McClain, L Dumka… – Parenting, 2013
… a cross-ethnic group study of children ages 8 to 13 years, Hill, Bush, and Roosa (2003) found
that Mexican American (MA) mothers … discipline that capture the range of viewpoints in the general
public, among policymakers, and among clinical and research professionals: (1) the …
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A Theater Intervention to Prevent Teen Dating Violence for Mexican-American Middle School Students
RA Belknap, K Haglund, H Felzer, J Pruszynski… – Journal of Adolescent …, 2013
… from two prior qualitative studies regarding perceptions of dating relationships and violence among
male and female Mexican-American adolescents to … An acting group of four undergraduate students
and a professional theater director wrote, directed, and performed the plays. …
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Academic Achievement Of First-Generation Mexican American Males In A Community College
CC Peña – Journal of International Education and Leadership …, 2013
… Demographic Profile This study consisted of 10 first-generation Mexican American males between
the ages of 21 and 28 years old. All were reared in South Page 9. … Participant 2 Miguel 25 Married
Computer Technician Participant 3 Humberto 26 Single Professional Musician …
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Pedagogies of Survival: Cultural Resources to Foster Resilience Among Mexican-American Community College Students
B Campa – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
… Pedagogies of Survival: Cultural Resources to Foster Resilience Among
Mexican-American Community College Students. … extensively. Mexican-American
students who attend community colleges typically face many barriers. …
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An Adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Gang-Affiliated Mexican American Adolescents
A Valdez, A Cepeda, D Parrish, R Horowitz, C Kaplan – Research on Social Work …, 2013
… and Charles Kaplan1 Abstract Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of
an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated
Mexican American adolescents and their parents. Methods: A …
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Family Obligation Values and Family Assistance Behaviors: Protective and Risk Factors for Mexican–American Adolescents’ Substance Use
EH Telzer, N Gonzales, AJ Fuligni – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
… In the current study, we examined the role of family obli- gation values and family assistance
behaviors on Mexican– American adolescents’ substance … studies with a similar population (Telzer
and Fuligni 2009a) ranging from 1 (unskilled level) to 5 (professional level); examples …
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Investigating the Student Experiences of Mexican-American PK-12 Educators to Cultivate Authentic Latino Recruitment Strategies
JM Morton, BN Martin – Current Issues in Education, 2013
… 1 2 However, we often do not model this maxim in our own professional actions (Ladson-Billings,
2005), thus suggesting a disconcerting … ways for PK-16 educational leaders to bolster the
recruitment of Latino students (specifically, educators of Mexican- American descent) into …
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