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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Hidden in plain sight: design approaches to Midwestern Mexican-American landscapes
S Dieterlen – Journal of Urbanism: International Research on …, 2014
… Midwestern Mexican-American landscapes by any of those scholars is likely to focus on testing
or developing theory, this study focuses primarily on physical intervention in actual neighborhoods
and cities to improve residents’ quality of life. The addition of professional-practice …
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The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory
DIVThe Mexican American woman zoot suiter, or pachuca, often wore a V-neck sweater or a long, broad-shouldered coat, a knee-length pleated skirt, fishnet stockings or bobby socks, platform heels or saddle shoes, dark lipstick, and a bouffant. Or she donned the same style of zoot suit that her male counterparts wore. With their striking attire, pachucos and pachucas represented a new generation of Mexican American youth, which arrived on the public scene in the 1940s. Yet while pachucos have often been the subject of literature, visual art, and scholarship, The Woman in the Zoot Suit is the first book focused on pachucas.
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Mexican Studies in Lone Star Classrooms?
Roundup: Not letting Texas high school students study Mexican-American history and literature is racist, say activists pushing for inclusive curricula.
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No green card? No problem — undocumented immigrant can practice law, court says
By Catherine E. Shoichet and Tom Watkins, CNN
updated 9:25 AM EST, Fri January 3, 2014
Illegal immigrant becomes lawyer
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NEW: California State Bar: The decision is a legal one, not a political one
California’s Supreme Court: Undocumented immigrant Sergio Garcia can practice law
“I’m glad to see us moving forward in the right direction,” one law student says
Critic: Case shows troubling trend, a push to “normalize illegal immigration”
(CNN) — Sergio Garcia’s parents brought him to the United States from Mexico nearly two decades ago. He’s been waiting for a green card ever since.
But there’s one thing the undocumented immigrant no longer has to wait for, according to a California Supreme Court ruling on Thursday: his law license.
Mother-reported sleep, accelerometer-estimated sleep and weight status in Mexican American children: sleep duration is associated with increased adiposity and risk for overweight/obese status
SM Martinez, LC Greenspan, NF Butte, SE Gregorich… – Journal of Sleep Research, 2013
… we examined the reliability of retrospective parent-reported sleep duration, compared with an
objective measure of sleep duration in a sample of Mexican American children. … Occupational
status ranged from lowest (1 = unskilled) to highest (9 = professional) (Hollingshead, 1975 …
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The Role of Behavioral and Cognitive Cultural Orientation on Mexican American College Students’ Life Satisfaction
L Ojeda, LM Edwards, EE Hardin, B Piña-Watson – Journal of Hispanic Higher …, 2014
… Implications for Practice Despite the limitations of this study and its exploratory nature,
our findings suggest several implications for professionals in college settings working
with Mexican American students. For example, higher …
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Cultural Differences in the Parenting of Young Children: An Observational Study of Low-Income Mexican American and European American Families
KM McCabe, JR Shanley, LN Niec, M Naaf, M Yeh… – Child & Family Behavior …, 2013
… Cultural Differences in the Parenting of Young Children: An Observational Study of Low-Income
Mexican American and European American Families. … Parenting style of Mexican, Mexican
American, and Caucasian–non-Hispanic families: Social context and cultural influences . …
Democratizing Texas Politics: Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment, 1945-2002
B Márquez – 2014
… Page 4. Democratizing Texas Politics Race, Identity, and Mexican American Empowerment,
1945–2002 by benjamin márquez University of Texas Press Austin … Introduction This is a book
about Mexican American incorporation into Texas electoral politics after World War…
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Acculturation and Religious Coping as Moderators of the Association Between Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among Mexican-American Vocational Students
A Fernandez, A Loukas – Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2013
… population, because of limited eco- nomic resources and access to other forms of coping, such
as professional counseling [2 … Although religious involvement is important to the Mexican-American
population, the amount of literature examining religiousness and its influence on …
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Push is on to close college gap for California’s Latinos
A study shows Latinos lag behind other Californians in finishing college. Educators are seeking ways to boost Latino graduation rates.
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College seems out of reach to most Latinos
San Leandro High School senior Veronica Santana strode across the stage in a scarlet cap and gown to receive her high school diploma at a graduation ceremony earlier this month on the hillside cam
MEXICAN AMERICAN BASEBALL IN THE CENTRAL COAST
RA Santillán, C Docter, A Bermúdez, E Navarro…
… He is the 2012–2014 poet laureate of California. FRONT COVER: Ernie Cervantes, shown here
in 1940, was known as “Mr. Baseball” within the Sacramento Mexican American community. He
was good enough to be offered a professional contract with the St. Louis Browns. …
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Mexican-American Children’s Perspectives: Neighborhood Characteristics and Physical Activity in Texas-Mexico Border Colonias
N Mier, LEE CHANAM, ML Smith, W XIAOHUI… – Journal of environmental …, 2013
… Ten focus groups were conducted with 67 Mexican-American colonia children ages 8 to 13 living
in one of the poorest border … Findings may inform policy makers and public health professionals
about ways to promote PA among underserved children through urban planning …
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Familismo, Ethnic Identity, and Bicultural Stress as Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents’ Positive Psychological Functioning.
B Piña-Watson, L Ojeda, NE Castellon, M Dornhecker – 2013
… Familismo, Ethnic Identity, and Bicultural Stress as Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents’
Positive Psychological Functioning … Page 2. Familismo, Ethnic Identity, and Bicultural Stress as
Predictors of Mexican American Adolescents’ Positive Psychological Functioning …
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Latino Winemakers Rise in California, Through the Ranks
SONOMA, Calif. — It is harvest season in wine country, the time of year when the scent of crushed grapes infuses the air and flatbed trucks heavy with fruit cargo come lurching down narrow back roads…
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GIFTED, BILINGUAL, MEXICAN/MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS: USING COMMUNITY CULTURAL WEALTH AS A STRATEGY FOR NEGOTIATING PARADOXES
TM Beam-Conroy – 2013
… the approved version of the following dissertation: GIFTED, BILINGUAL, MEXICAN/MEXICAN-
AMERICAN STUDENTS: USING COMMUNITY CULTURAL WEALTH AS A STRATEGY FOR
NEGOTIATING PARADOXES … vii GIFTED, BILINGUAL, MEXICAN/MEXICAN-AMERICAN
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How One Woman Is Bridging The Gap Between Classical Music And Latinos
There are many barriers that exist growing up Latino in America, but access to classical music is one that is not often
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Success Of Bilingual Crossover Films Shows Hollywood’s Paying Attention To Latinos
For years, Latinos who sat in movie theaters typically saw themselves depicted as ruthless killers, drug dealers or restaurant workers or impoverished dwellers of dilapidated housing projects in grim neighborhoods.
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Demographic Shift In The Big Apple: First Mexican-American Elected Official
Just a generation ago, Mexicans were a rarity in the Big Apple.
But now they are New York City’s fastest-growing Hispanic group, numbering well over 300,000 and comprising more than 12 percent of the city’s Latino population. It’s part of a demographic shift that, on the other end, has witnessed the city’s “Old Guard” – Puerto Ricans and Dominicans – seeing their numbers decline over the years.
Mexican and Mexican-American children’s funds of knowledge as interventions into deficit thinking: opportunities for praxis in science education
MM Licona – Cultural Studies of Science Education
… These scholars have also identified other ways that Mexican American parents show they care
about their children’s educations: politically, legislatively … Of course, the responsibility to create
professional development for existing teachers cannot only be a point for rethinking the …
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