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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Host of NPR’s Latino USA to speak at DePaul University April 24
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 21, 2014. DePaul University’s School for New Learning will welcome the host of NPR’s “Latino USA,” Maria Hinojosa, for a presentation on April 24 titled, “The Growing Number of Latinos in the U.S. and Its Implications.” The event will begin with a reception at 5 p.m., after which, Hinojosa will give a lecture and host a question and answer session at University Center, Lake Room, 525 S. State St., Chicago. Admission is free and open to the public
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Good Teachers Embrace Their Students’ Cultural Backgrounds
As the public-school population grows increasingly diverse, creating a link between home and school becomes more and more important.
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Latinos Are Largest Group Among Incoming Freshmen in UCal System
LOS ANGELES – For the first time in the history of the University of California system, Hispanics represent the largest group among incoming freshmen, reflecting the state’s clear demographic change.
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Gender across family generations: change in Mexican American masculinities and femininities
How do conceptions of gender – attitudes, expectations, and behaviours – change from generation to generation in Mexican American families? The notion of gender as socially constructed allows for the possibility of change, yet existing studies documenting change provide insight into why gender changes occur but…
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Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87
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Opera Mediaworks offers expanded reach to U.S. Hispanic consumers
SAN MATEO, California, Apr 15, 2014 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) — — Integration of Hunt Mobile Ads opens up new possibilities
SAN MATEO, California, April 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Opera Mediaworks, the world’s largest mobile ad platform, today announced an expanded reach across the U.S. Hispanic population through the integration of Hunt Mobile Ads, the leading mobile ad network in Latin America. This will make Opera Mediaworks the best mobile network to reach the Hispanic audience across the United States at scale through premium U.S. and Latin American publishers.
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Barrio to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class By Jody Agius Vallejo
DJ Delgado – Social Forces, 2014
… theories of upward mobility, her discussion covers numerous topics regarding this cross section
of the Mexican American population, such as … Americans’ views regarding their obligations to other
Latinos, their identities, and their experiences in ethnic professional associations. …
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James J. Lorence. Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest.
BD Behnken – The American Historical Review, 2014
… The union soon transferred him to New Mexico, where local Mexican American leaders such
as Juan Chacón were already involved in a bitter … The jury found Jencks guilty of perjury based
largely on the testimony of FBI informant and professional liar Harvey Matusow, who …
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Mexican American Social Workers’ Perceptions of Doctoral Education and Academia
M Tijerina, AC Deepak – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
… than the specific Latino ethnicities within, the sample for this study was solely Mexican American. …
responsibilities (ie, no children, no parents to care for), and professional recognition for … Second,
the resulting sample largely comprised very seasoned professionals, who were far …
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Counter-Narratives of La Raza Voices: An Exploration of the Personal and Professional Lived Experiences of Mexican-American/Chicano/A Faculty at California Institutions of Higher Education
Frank Vincent Serrano
Faculty members of color time and again encounter the greatest number of challenges and barriers (e.g., discrimination, isolation, marginalization, tokenism, inundated with workloads and service commitments, devalued research, and delayed promotion and tenure) in both entering academia and succeeding within academia…
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Divorce and the “Modern Family”: Using a DR to a ddress Our Ever-Diversifying Society’s Family Law needs
By Antoinette Raheem
with the contributions of
Holly Thompson, Sayed Mostafa, Tim
Cordes,Eileen Slank, and Belem Morales
We all know that divorce is never a one-size-fits-all process. However, when the parties to a domestic matter are culturally
or otherwise diverse, family lawyers need recognize that even more care should be taken to address the unique needs
of the parties. While it goes without saying that, within any group, people are unique and no one group has all the same
characteristics, to the extent there may be some prevalent…
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Expanding the pipeline for Latino bilingual teachers: A mixed methods study by Amabilia Valverde Valenzuela, University of Texas at El Paso
Current education reform in the US requires teacher preparation programs to educate future teachers according to the certification standards set forth by each state. Certification for teaching in Texas requires that preservice teachers successfully complete a series of comprehensive examinations in their teaching fields and in professional knowledge before entering full-time teaching…
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The Formation of Identity in High-Achieving, Mexican- American Professional Women
Esmeralda de los Santos
University of the Incarnate Word
Abstract: This study examines how ten, high-achieving, professional Mexican-American
women negotiate the Mexican-American and Anglo cultures and identifies what impact this negotiation
has on their sense of identity. The women’s early socialization determines whether they
acculturate to the dominant culture; irritate it; adapt to it; or reject it.
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Dangerous Minds In Tucson: The Banning of Mexican American Studies and Critical Thinking In Arizona
C Acosta
… 3 Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal, one of the key political figures that drove
the banning of Mexican American Studies in Tucson, is a … I have a legal responsibility to uphold
the law and a professional imperative to ensure every student has access to an …
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Retrospective chart review of obesity and episodic and chronic illness among rural Mexican-American adolescents accessing rural health clinic services
JD Champion, S Pierce, JL Collins – International Journal of Nursing Practice, 2014
… adolescents is essential.[42] A substantial increase in obesity has occurred among men,
Mexican-Americans and those living in southern states.[10] The rapid growth of Mexican-American
populations in … Obesity and Overweight for Professionals: Causes and Consequences
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Early Childrearing Practices and Their Relationship to Academic Performance in Mexican American Children
Arevalo, Amanda PT, DSc, PCS; Kolobe, Thubi H.A. PT, PhD, FAPTA; Arnold, Sandra PT, PhD; DeGrace, Beth PhD, OTR/L
Purpose:
To examine whether parenting behaviors and child rearing practices in the first 3 years of life among Mexican American (MA) families predict children’s academic performance at school age
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Academic Invulnerability Among Mexican-American Students: The Importance of Protective Resources and Appraisals
Sylvia Alatorre Alva
California State University, Fullerton
This study examined the characteristics of a cohort of Mexican-American tenth-grade students to determine why some Mexican-American students are academically successful and others are not, despite sharing a similar sociocultural background. Based on current work on invulnerable children, the purpose of this study was to examine the role of protective…
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Mexican- Americans fare worse after stroke: study finds
THURSDAY, March 13, 2014 (HealthDay News) — Mexican-Americans have more trouble recovering from a stroke than white patients do, a new study finds.
The researchers noted that Mexican-Americans are more likely to suffer a stroke than whites, but less likely to die from one. However, these new findings suggest that the…
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Ulysses S. Grant: Birth to the Mexican-American War
PK Sanfilippo – A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents …, 2014 – books.google.com
Hundreds of books, articles, and manuscripts about Ulysses S. Grant have been written and
published since his rise to fame during America’s Civil War. In fact, a 2005 bibliography of
Grant-related publications compiled by Marie Kelsey includes over 4,000 items in its 475 …
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Racism on trial : the Chicano fight for justice
“Ian Haney Lopez tells the compelling story of the Chicano movement in Los Angeles by following two criminal trials, including one arising from the student walkouts. He demonstrates how racial prejudice led to police brutality and judicial discrimination that in turn spurred Chicano militancy. He also shows that legal violence helped to convince Chicano activists that they were nonwhite, thereby encouraging their…
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