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UNINA9910817793203321 |
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Autore |
Portales Marco <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Latino sun, rising : our Spanish-speaking U.S. world / / Marco Portales |
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College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, c2005 |
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1-299-05311-4 |
1-60344-456-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mexican Americans |
Mexican American teachers |
Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity |
Mexican Americans - Social conditions |
Hispanic Americans - Social conditions |
Texas, South Biography |
Texas, South Social life and customs |
Texas, South Social conditions |
United States Ethnic relations |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Sol Naciente: Youth -- Urban Renewal on the Hometown Block in Edinburg -- South Padre, Isla del Padre Ballí -- Largest Texas Shrine -- The Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi -- Solo -- Sol Ardiente: Parenthood -- Voices, Desires Being Wishful -- Education -- Puerto Rico or Houston -- Apples after School, and the Alamo -- Harvard Visit -- Fishing at the Point in Seabrook -- An Aztec Reverie -- Mi Tierra in San Antonio -- Indian Trails and the Texas A&M/UT Presidential Corridor -- Among Mullets, One Galveston Summer -- Disney World Florida Trip -- The Rain-Blessed Mountains of Costa Rica -- Projecting Consciousness in Maximum Security -- Evoking Rimsky-Korsakov on the Eve of a Move -- Leaving the NASA Johnson Space Center Neighbors -- Rio Grande Valley Meditation -- Showdown across the Border in Reynosa -- Sol |
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Radiante: Public Policy Issues -- On Seeing Giant, after Avoiding the Film Many Years -- Words for Better Lives -- Reinventing Ourselves -- Race Should Not Matter -- Affirmative Action -- Diversity Is Natural -- On the Theory of Bilingual Education -- Latin America and the United States and Mexico -- Heat, Undocumented Workers, and the Border Patrol -- Luis Alfonso Torres, the Mexican Rodney King -- NAFTA and the Maquiladora Babies -- A Realization and a Memory in Southmost Texas -- Latino Voting and Election Promises -- Batos Locos -- El Día de los Muertos in the United States -- Regarding a Mexican Imerican Holiday -- War in Iraq -- Thanksgiving Idyll -- The Idea of a Mexican American/Latino Exhibit -- A New Language -- Year-End Thoughts -- What Latinos Want. |
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