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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Why Did Mexico United-States Migration Begin to Decrease in 2008?
E Levine
After providing some background on the historical trends of labor migration to the United
States, the article focuses on the place of Mexicans and other Latin Americans in the United
States labor market as the context that frames Mexican migration. …
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Declining Ratings for Mexico’s Peña Nieto
Three years after being elected president, Mexico’s Enrique Peña Nieto is increasingly unpopular. Following a year plagued by scandal and controversy, his ratings have fallen, and Mexicans have grown disappointed with key elements of his ambitious agenda…
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The Effects of Warfare and Captive-Taking in Indegenous Mortalilty in Postcontact North America
CM Cameron – Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America, 2015
… hunter arrived in Chihuahua City in 1845 with 182 scalps, 18 captives, and some Mexican women
and children he had rescued. In response, the Apaches Page 203. 190 CM Cameron only
intensified their raiding. They were finally subdued when Anglo- Americans took over …
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Bilingual Adults’ Language Use: A Study of High Level Spanish English Speakers
EK Sinkler – 2015
… languages. Previous research has focused on working class immigrants or first generation
Hispanic Americans in universities. Neither of these groups have advanced education,
so there is a need for more research in this area. This research …
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The Effect of Bilingualism on Self-Perceived Multicultural Counseling Competence
NN Ivers, JA Villalba – 2015
… 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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Cultural and social processes of language brokering among Arab, Asian, and Latin immigrants
SSA Guan, A Nash, MF Orellana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2015
… 1982. “Stereotypes of Mexican Descent Persons Attitudes of Three Generations
of Mexican Americans and Anglo-American Adolescents.” Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology 13 (1): 59–70. [CrossRef] View all references). …
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Opening the doors to more low-income students reshapes a university
Under its current president, Arizona State University has increased its student population to 84,000, making it the largest university in America. In particular, the focus has been on boosting the number of low-income students. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how ASU transformed itself, and why some are questioning the outcomes of its rapid expansion…
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Sacrificing a Latina/o Presence in the Professoriate: An Analysis of Affirmative Action as Racial Remedy and Silent Covenant
MM Espino – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2015
… I felt an obligation to (re)present the participants’ narratives in a responsible manner. Many of
these participants are the only Mexican Americans or faculty of color in their departments and
may be easily recognizable depending on their discipline and social identities. …
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Analysis shows fewer Hispanic young adults ‘disconnected’ from school, jobs
Near the end of the Great Recession, about one-in-five Hispanics ages 18 and 19 were “disconnected youth” – neither working nor going to school. But, helped by the economic recovery, the share of these young Hispanic adults not working or enrolled in school dropped from 21% in 2009 to a historic low of 16% by 2014, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of federal government data…
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Immigration and psychotic experiences in the United States: Another example of the epidemiological paradox?
H Oh, J Abe, N Negi, J DeVylder – Psychiatry Research, 2015
… association between immigration and PE in the US, and their findings showed that when compared
with native-born populations, Mexican immigrants reported … The NLAAS is a survey of Latino
(n=2554) and Asian (n=2095) Americans, which for the purposes of this study was …
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A Chican@ Pathways Model of Acción: Affirming the Racial, Cultural and Academic Assets of Students, Families and Communities
E Alemán Jr, DD Bernal, E Cortez – … of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2015
… Association of Mexican-American Educators (AMAE) Special Invited Issue © 2015, Volume 9,
Issue 1 ISSN 2377-9187 … In particular, Emma shares how Americans (but really she means white
people) treat her mother unfairly because she gets underpaid for the amount and type …
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The Effects of Acculturation on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation of Ethnically Diverse Persons
JP Niemeier, JK Kaholokula, JC Arango-Lasprilla… – … : Clinical Prinicipals for …, 2015
… In terms of pre- dictors for psychological problems such as depression, a recent survey (Leung
et al., 2014) revealed increased self-report of depression symptoms in Mexican Americans who
were concerned about discrimination, had a loss of income, or were worried about …
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A Comparatie Study of the Perceived Housing Needs of Low-income and Upper-Middle-income Residents of San Jose California
A Mazur – 2015
… B. Neighborhoods. IV. Mexican-Americans and the Elderly. A. Physical Structures. … While only
5’1 of the housing units occupied by non-Mexican-American whites were unsound in I960, 23′,
of the units occupied by Mexican-Americans were unsound. Overcrowding was …
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Binge Drinking and Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics Among Mexican Americans Residing on the U.S.–Mexico Border
PAC Vaeth, R Caetano, BA Mills – Alcoholism: Clinical and …, 2015 – Wiley Online Library
7 days ago – Background This study examines the association between perceived
neighborhood violence, perceived neighborhood collective efficacy, and binge drinking
among Mexican Americans residing on the US–Mexico border. Methods Data were …
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The Magic Key: The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from k-12 to College en Beyond
RE Zambrana, S Hurtado – 2015 – books.google.com
4 days ago – Mexican Americans comprise the largest subgroup of Latina/os, and their path
to education can be a difficult one. Yet just as this group is often marginalized, so are their
stories, and relatively few studies have chronicled the educational trajectory of Mexican …
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Stability in Cognitive Function Over 18 Years: Prevalence and Predictors among Older Mexican Americans
Purpose: Numerous studies have examined the association of physical, behavioral and social factors with cognitive decline in older adults. Less attention has been placed on factors associated with long-term maintenance of intact cognition even into very old age. A greater understanding of those factors can inform the development of activities for maintaining cognitive strength. Methods: Using a sample from the Hispanic Established Populations for Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly, a population-based study of non-institutionalized Mexican Americans aged 65 and older from five Southwestern states (N = 2767), latent class mixture models were developed to identify subgroups of cognitive…
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Immigration
Immigration is central to the growth and identity of the Hispanic population. Almost all of the project’s research, regardless of topic, includes separate tabulations of data for U.S.-born and foreign-born Hispanics. Research on immigration focuses on the unauthorized population, overall trends in immigration and public attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policy.
Also see our statistical portraits, state and county databases, demographic profiles and Census 2010 tables for data on the characteristics of the Latino and foreign-born populations in the United States…
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Latin American festival showcases Mexican potters
World-renowned artisan potters from Mexico were on hand Sunday afternoon at the annual Latin American Festival in Old Town.
The outdoor event is designed to bring talented Latin American artists and their authentic folk art collections to San Diego where attendees can purchase items for sale.
Bazaar del Mundo has held the event for about 25 years. This year, there were about 35 artists showcasing their wares at the weekend event, including folk artist Irene Aguilar Alcántar of Oaxaca and Mata Ortiz potter and principal artist Jorge Quintana.
Named after a town in northwestern Chihuahua, Mata Ortiz pottery was developed in the 1970s by Juan Quezada, who learned to re-create ancient pottery near the archeological site of Paquimé. The struggling village has been transformed as a result of the resurgence of this traditional art form.
“The economy (in Mata Ortiz) has changed,” Quintana said. “But the most important part is that the people go to school. In the past, they only went to elementary school, and a few people went to secondary school. Now, more people go to college and university.”…
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Latin American Women’s Association helps Latino students succeed in Charlotte
By Katya Lezin
Correspondent
Violeta Moser came to the United States in 1974 as an exchange student from Peru.
She studied at New Jersey’s Montclair State University and earned a degree in business administration.
“I was supposed to stay for only one semester,” Moser said. “And it has turned into 42 years.”
Moser, 60, knows the obstacles faced by students who are new to the U.S. educational system…
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Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Founded in 1975, the Hispanic Scholarship Fund provides scholarships to Latino students, as well as related support services. HSF seeks to give students all the tools they need to apply to college, do well in their course work, graduate, enter a profession, excel, help lead our nation going forward, and mentor the generations to come
As the nation’s largest not-for-profit organization supporting Hispanic American higher education, HSF has awarded over $470 million in scholarships and provides a range of ancillary programs for candidates, scholars, and their families.
HSF further strives to make college education a top priority for every Latino family across the nation and to mobilize our community to proactively
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