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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Nationwide Grants Give Groups Chance to Learn Latino Culture, History
Latinos may be the largest minority group in the U.S., but many are not familiar with the fact that they have been an integral part of the U.S. since the country’s beginnings, and that different nationalities have their distinct history, culture and roots.
To celebrate and inform on the diversity and achievements of U.S. Latinos, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association created Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, a nationwide initiative grant to educate communities around the country…
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Opinion: America’s unlikeliest Latino
Now everybody wants to be Hispanic. Last week, in an exchange on Twitter, one of the country’s most xenophobic lawmakers made the bizarre suggestion that he is as Latino as Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. In response to a tweet paraphrasing Castro as warning that the “GOP could kiss the Latino vote goodbye,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, tweeted, “What does Julián Castro know? Does he know that I am as Hispanic and Latino as he is?”…
The Association Between Affective and Problem-Solving Communication and Intimate Partner Violence Among Caucasian and Mexican American Couples: a Dyadic Approach
JF Hammett, DM Castañeda, EC Ulloa – Journal of Family Violence, 2015
… Marital conflict and acculturation among Mexican American husbands and wives. …
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 40(3), 249–256.View Article; Huston,
TL, Caughlin, JP, Houts, RM, Smith, SE, & George, LJ (2001). …
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Mexican American and Other Hispanic Couples’ Relationship Dynamics: A Review to Inform Interventions Aimed at Promoting Healthy Relationships
RE Orengo-Aguayo – Marriage & Family Review, 2015
… Marriage & Family Review. Mexican American and Other Hispanic Couples’ Relationship
Dynamics: A Review to Inform Interventions Aimed at Promoting Healthy Relationships. …
RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS AMONG MEXICAN AMERICAN AND OTHER HISPANIC COUPLES. …
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Why-Mexican-Americans-are-making-more-progress-than-other-minorities
“Tiger Mother” Amy Chua claimed in a recent book that there’s something special about Chinese immigrants, who usually end up ahead of other newcomers both economically and academically. But researchers in the University of California system say Chinese immigrants have a head start, but when it comes to making progress, Mexican immigrants lead the pack…
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Cultural, Media, and Peer Influences on Body Beauty Perceptions of Mexican American Adolescent Girls
LF Romo, R Mireles-Rios, A Hurtado – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2015
… Beauty Perceptions of Mexican American Adolescent Girls Laura F. Romo1, Rebeca
Mireles-Rios1, and Aida Hurtado1 … Page 2. 2 Journal of Adolescent Research Keywords Mexican
American, Latinas, adolescent girls, body image, self-esteem, appearance …
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MARIO, A 35-YLD Mexican American male, and Kevin, a 33-year-old
DJ Alonzo – Handbook of Couples Therapy
… MARIO, A 35-YEAR-OLD Mexican American male, and Kevin, a 33-year- old words, 370 …
Nevertheless, it is important for GLBT therapists to expand their professional knowledge of
dynamics in same-sex couples so that they can offer the most balanced treatment possible. …
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America redefining its identity for 21st century
WASHINGTON
As it marked another birthday, America is forging the outlines of a new century.
It’s moving with now remarkable speed to cast aside some of the traditions and mores that dominated American life for centuries. The Confederate flag is coming down, 150 years after the end of the Civil War and a half-century after it was raised in defiance of civil rights. Marriage is being redefined. Whites are fast becoming a minority. And after electing its first African-American president, the country is poised to elect a new leader from among a roster including a woman, two Cuban-Americans, and the scion of an old Yankee family married to a Mexican-American…
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Truth vs. perception of crime rates for immigrants
Incendiary comments made by Donald Trump and a random killing of a California woman have added fuel to national debate on the contributions of and concerns about undocumented immigrants. William Brangham speaks to Marielena Hincapié of the National Immigration Law Center, Marc Rosenblum of the Migration Policy Institute and Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies…
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How Trump’s comments unleashed ‘Latino Spring’
There were no mass demonstrations in the streets, but Latino protesters amassed online. Their focus? The hurtful anti-Mexican comments made recently by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Latinos gathered in social media circles to condemn, plot and retaliate against Trump with such fervor in the past two weeks that they caused three multibillion dollar media companies to back away from him: Univision, NBC and Televisa…
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Census: Hispanics overtake whites to become California’s largest ethnic group
It’s official: Hispanics are now the largest ethnic group in California.
About 15 million Hispanics lived in California on July 1, 2014, compared to roughly 14.9 million non-Hispanic whites, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released late last week. The California Department of Finance predicted in 2013 that Hispanics would outnumber whites in 2014; the census figures confirm that prediction…
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Exploring Mexican American adolescent romantic relationship profiles and adjustment
Although Mexican Americans are the largest ethnic minority group in the nation, knowledge is limited regarding this population’s adolescent romantic relationships. This study explored whether 12th grade Mexican Americans’ (N = 218; 54% female) romantic relationship characteristics, cultural values, and gender created unique latent classes and if so, whether they were linked to adjustment…
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An American in Mexico
By Celia Wren June 26
The silver jaguar carries six amethysts: one in each paw, and on its back and tail. The brooch is remarkable on its own merits, but as part of a new exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Institute, the jewelry also epitomizes the style of its designer, William Spratling…
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Science: There Is No Such Thing As Race
Back in 1950, an international panel of geneticists, sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists issued a statement through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) affirming that all humans belong to the same species. sapiens.
Back in 1950, an international panel of geneticists, sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists issued a statement through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) affirming that all humans belong to the same species…Race is not a biological reality. It is an adaptation of humans living in different parts of the world – and society’s way of dividing people up.
What is referred to as “race” is in actuality a product of social context – as there is only one biological race in the human species: Homo sapiens…
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There’s a War Going on Here: Defending American Identity at the US-Mexican Border Through the Cinema
A Macleod
… view of the 1836 battle of the Alamo. Sam and Pilar are former lovers, kept apart by their respective
parents, Sam’s father and Pilar’s Mexican-American mother Mercedes Cruz … migrants and
drug-smugglers. The CBP agents we see are very professional and show …
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US Latino Unemployment Rate: 13 Million Latinos ‘Not in the Labor Force’ But May 2015 Hispanic Unemployment Declines
The U.S. Latino unemployment declined by one percentage point in comparison to May 2014, and economists have remained optimistic about the latest jobs report.
Overall, the U.S. unemployment rate increased from 5.4 percent in April to 5.5 percent for May. According to The New York Times, the latest data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) helped ease the debate about the first quarter’s financial results. During May, 280,000 jobs were created, which was a stronger number than expected, and it may further the Federal Reserve to start raising interest rates.
The Latino unemployment rate, however, declined from April’s 6.9 percent to 6.7 percent in May. As the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) noted, Latino employment gains in leisure and hospitality likely attributed to the unemployment rate decline as 57,000 jobs were added in this sector. The leisure and hospitality employment gains come as the summer vacation season approaches…
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The Role of Mexican American Siblings in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
SAR De Jesús – 2015
Page 1. The Role of Mexican American Siblings in Adolescence and Young Adulthood by … Thank
you for the invaluable lessons and for caring about my professional development and well-being,
in you I found more than an advisor, I found a role model, and a friend. …
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Acculturation and Diet Quality among Mexican American Adults in the U.S.: Findings from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001-2008
The diet quality of Mexican Americans (MAs) is changing with the acculturation process. Using the Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI2010), this study examined which aspects of diet quality are impacted by acculturation among MAs…
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Acculturation and Excessive Alcohol Consumption among Mexican American Current Drinkers- Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001-2012
The influence of acculturation on alcohol use among Mexican Americans in the U.S. remain unresolved. Research is needed to identify the unique effects of acculturation on consumption patterns and problems among drinkers. Using a sample derived from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), this study aimed to assess the relationship between acculturation and excessive alcohol consumption among Mexican American current drinkers…
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Chapter 7: The Many Dimensions of Hispanic Racial Identity
For Hispanics living in the United States, Hispanic identity is multidimensional and multifaceted. For some, it is defined most by their family’s country of origin, such as Mexican, Cuban or Dominican.48 For others, it is defined by pan-ethnic terms like Hispanic or Latino, emphasizing the commonalities of a diverse community…
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