Latino Sun, Rising : Our Spanish-Speaking U.S. World.

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Now that Latinos are the most numerous ethnic minority in the United States and a growing part of the middle and professional classes, a Mexican American educator takes stock. Latinos can see that their sun is rising. Marco Portales knows; his life has been lived under that rising sun.On the beach a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Portales, Marco (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Palo Alto : Texas A & M University Press, Ebrary, Incorporated [distributor] 2007 ;
Temas:
Portales, Marco, > 1948-
Mexican Americans > Biography.
Mexican American teachers > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Biographies.
Enseignants américains d'origine mexicaine > Biographies.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Identité ethnique.
Américains d'origine mexicaine > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Social Science.
Ethnic relations
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions
Manners and customs
Mexican American teachers
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity
Mexican Americans > Social conditions
Social conditions
Texas, South > Biography.
Texas, South > Social life and customs.
Texas, South > Social conditions.
United States > Ethnic relations.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
South Texas
United States
Electronic books.
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 SecurityEvoking 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 BabiesA 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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