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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NBC4 Southern California supported the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation’s (MAOF) annual Aztec Awards Gala on October 3, 2014 in Downtown Los Angeles. NBC4 Reporter Kim Baldonado was the mistress of ceremonies.
The Aztec Awards recognize individuals who have positively impacted the Latino community. One of the 2014 honorees was Actor Edward James Olmos.
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The UTEP Department of Communication and the Chicano Studies program presents a lecture and exhibit by Dr. William Anthony Nericcio that examines American visual culture reflecting images and stereotypes of Latinas/os. The event, Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious , will be at 5:30 pm, Wednesday, Oct. 15 in Quinn Hall Room 212 at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Mextasy is a traveling art…
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Some of the things you have used -and some you haven’t- were invented by a Latino and you didn’t even know it.
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DS Roubinov – 2014
Page 1. Father Involvement in Mexican American Families by Danielle S. Roubinov … Linda Luecken.
Over the past several years, her guidance has helped me to take strides from graduate student
to researcher, clinician, and professional. I credit Dr. Luecken’s …
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An innovative, open-access archive documenting personal stories of journalists who have been silenced, and also government processes that cannot be videotaped or photographed, is being introduced at the University of Arizona.
Called “The Documented Border,” the digital archive includes original border-related research material collected and curated by UA faculty along the U.S.-Mexico border, representing a unique resource for researchers, scholars and others interested…
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A new generation of Latinos continues to move up in American politics. Some are immigrants, others are homegrown; most are progressive, but conservatives have elevated serious talent as well. Last year’s list of excellent Latinos in politics focused on Capitol Hill. This year’s looks further, to Latinos in key roles across the spectrum of American politics.
In 2014, the Obama administration…
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Breakout comedienne Cristela Alonzo stars as a woman laughing her way to the new American dream in “Cristela,” a family comedy loosely based on her life and stand-up routine. Cristela’s dream of becoming a lawyer is something her traditional Mexican-American family doesn’t quite understand. She’s entering her sixth year of law school after juggling home obligations and working multiple jobs to pay her way. She lives in cramped quarters with her sister Daniela, her long-suffering brother-in-law Felix and their two young kids…
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SA Lozano – 2014
… activities? 3. What role does the cultural center play in Mexican American student success? …
because they are not staffed with full-time professionals. Rather, each center employs a half- …
Center is planned and coordinated by students rather than by professional staff members. …
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A Navarro – 2014 – books.google.com
… Although other sectors were involved (eg, campesinos, workers, professionals, etc.), it was the youths who became the most … To understand the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO),then, itis important to understand the relationships among the divergent movements …
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By ELLYSA GONZALEZ
He’s done some acting, made people laugh and produced film projects.
But over the past 20 years, Cheech Marin also has been collecting art.
On Friday, Marin visited Texas Tech to introduce an exhibit of art from his personal collection as part of a collaboration between the Tech College of Visual and Performing Arts School of Art and the Presidential Lecture & Performance…
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SM Martinez, JM Tschann, LC Greenspan, J Deardorff… – Sleep Medicine
… In Mexican American children, shorter sleep duration at baseline was associated with increased
weight status over 24 months. … | Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Feedback | About Us | Help |
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There was a time when even the most devoted American cinephile would struggle to name more than a few Latino directors beyond Pedro Almodovar and Luis Bunuel. Today, filmmakers like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Miguel Arteta, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Robert Rodriguez have become bankable names with movies that are embraced by broad audiences. But can “Gravity,” “Pacific Rim,” or “Sin City” be defined as Latino films?
There’s another group of Hispanic filmmakers who are really nailing their craft; they’re not yet household names in the U.S., but they’re reinvigorating genres, providing fresh perspectives, and reshaping the cinematic experience…
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Only 2.8 percent of Mexican American college graduates move on to get a graduate or professional degree, and worse for foreign-born Mexican Americans: only 1.5 percent of that group goes on to get a graduate degree or certificate.
Mexican-American-Proarchive.com releases the troublesome educational attainment figures for the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for the year 2013.
Although the college or graduate school enrollment in 2013 did not change much since 2012, the educational attainment for these groups of Mexican Americans is unacceptable. ¿Que paso? It’s true that out of the already low 18.1 percent enrollment of all Mexican Americans in higher education, 7.3 percent complete their B.A. and 21.8 percent complete some college or associate’s degree, but only 2.8 percent of Mexican Americans obtain a graduate or professional degree. This is terrible in comparison to the total population, which has a graduate or professional degree completion rate of 11.2 percent.
A bright light in the horizon is a program formed by an alliance of Berkeley, Stanford, UCLA, and Caltech Universities “to unite and boost minority Ph.D. students and faculty” by “creating a unique, cross-institutional community of underrepresented minorities and developing faculty training to better recognize and help this group.”
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“If you want a professional edge in the market, you might want to do business and Mexican-American and Latino studies because those are the people …
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SE Killoren, EC Alfaro, AK Lindell, C Streit – Family Relations, 2014
… Original Article. Mexican American College Students’ Communication with Their Siblings. … How
to Cite. Killoren, SE, Alfaro, EC, Lindell, AK and Streit, C. (2014), Mexican American College
Students’ Communication with Their Siblings. Family Relations, 63: 513–525. …
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R Murillo, SS Albrecht, ML Daviglus, KN Kershaw – American Journal of Health …, 2014
… The Role of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in Explaining the Association
Between Acculturation and Obesity Among Mexican-American Adults … Subjects.
Mexican-American NHANES participants aged !20 years (n ¼ 1902). Measures. …
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B Piña‐Watson, N Jimenez, L Ojeda – The Career Development Quarterly, 2014
… degree attainment, with only 2.9% of Latinas obtaining a master’s degree and 1.0% obtaining
doctoral or professional degrees (compared with … Informed by this study, a program could be
established in which professionals connect Mexican American college women with …
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Teacher reflection has been shown to have a positive influence on educators’ professional growth. This article features the author’s autobiographical reflection on his eight years working at an elementary school within a predominantly migrant Mexican AmerTeacher reflection has been shown to have a positive influence on educators’ professional growth. This article features the author’s autobiographical reflection on his eight years working at an elementary school within a predominantly migrant Mexican American community, with specific attention paid to his mistakes while implementing a lesson on the indigenous Huichol culture of Mexico. Through the author’s critical self-reflection, a number of common missteps in multicultural instruction are discussed, including the selection of lessons that call for shallow reproductions of cultural artifacts, the error of false assumptions of cultural homogeneity, and the culturally-insensitive practiceican community, with specific attention paid to his mistakes while implementing a lesson on the indigenous Huichol culture of Mexico. Through the author’s critical self-reflection, a number of common missteps in multicultural instruction are discussed, including the selection of lessons that call for shallow reproductions of cultural artifacts, the error of false assumptions of cultural homogeneity, and the culturally-insensitive practice…
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According to Horowitz Associates’ Focus: Latino 2014 report. Bicultural Latinos, Hispanics who feel strong cultural ties to both their U.S. and Hispanic identities, represent 53% of America’s Hispanics.
Biculturals, who tend to be more educated and make more money than average Hispanics, are a highly desirable target demographic for advertisers. Additionally, compared to total Hispanics and TV content viewers overall, biculturals are younger, more entertainment-oriented, and very tech-savvy. Many media companies and their advertisers are now working to develop effective strategies for engaging them…
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Two interviews were conducted; one with a 30 year old mixed Caucasian Mexican American male
with a family of five, Jimmy,studying music in Idaho and another with an
elderly couple from the baby boom cohort included a 68 year old Mexican
American female,Candelaria,who moved to the U.S. in 1963 and a 74 year old Mexican-
American male Cayetano,who moved to the U.S. permanently in 1948, both naturalized in 1977. Although the
instructions were to interview only one person from the older group, both husband and wife
intervened in the conversation.
Both interviews were done via Skype.
Both generational cohorts indicate…
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