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Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question "Where are you from?" By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto Rico...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bell-Villada, Gene H., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Colección:Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
Temas:
Bell-Villada, Gene H., > 1941-
Americans > Cuba > Biography.
Americans > Venezuela > Biography.
Racially mixed children > United States.
Américains > Cuba > Biographies.
Enfants métis > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
Americans.
Racially mixed children.
Puerto Rico > Biography.
Florida > Biography.
Porto Rico > Biographies.
Floride > Biographies.
Cuba.
Florida.
Puerto Rico.
United States.
Venezuela.
Biographies.
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Sumario:Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question "Where are you from?" By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Cuba. Though English was his first language, his claim on U.S. citizenship was a hollow one. All he knew of his purported "homeland" was gleaned from imported comic books and movies. He spoke Spanish fluently, but he never fully fit into the culture of the Latin American countries where he gr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (285 pages)
ISBN:9781617032226
1617032220

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