03810nam 2200697Ia 450 991081779320332120240410192050.01-299-05311-41-60344-456-4(CKB)2560000000053219(OCoLC)698590826(CaPaEBR)ebrary10436020(SSID)ssj0000485499(PQKBManifestationID)11335498(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485499(PQKBWorkID)10604182(PQKB)10994319(MiAaPQ)EBC3037842(MdBmJHUP)muse1141(Au-PeEL)EBL3037842(CaPaEBR)ebr10436020(CaONFJC)MIL436561(OCoLC)808089192(EXLCZ)99256000000005321920040330d2005 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLatino sun, rising our Spanish-speaking U.S. world /Marco Portales1st ed.College Station Texas A&M University Pressc20051 online resource (270 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-58544-637-8 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 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.Mexican AmericansBiographyMexican American teachersBiographyMexican AmericansEthnic identityMexican AmericansSocial conditionsHispanic AmericansSocial conditionsTexas, SouthBiographyTexas, SouthSocial life and customsTexas, SouthSocial conditionsUnited StatesEthnic relationsMexican AmericansMexican American teachersMexican AmericansEthnic identity.Mexican AmericansSocial conditions.Hispanic AmericansSocial conditions.976.4/00468073/092BPortales Marco1948-700211MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817793203321Latino sun, rising3957501UNINA