Overseas American : growing up gringo in the tropics /

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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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword, with Hindsight: American, Overseas; PART ONE: OVERSEAS; Next Stop, San Juan; When We Were Almost Puerto Ricans; Strange Interlude in Venezuela and Florida; Cuban Military Cadet No. 562; Family Interludes in Puerto Rico; On Being Gringo in Caracas; PART TWO: AMERICAN; Not Yet at Home in El Norte; Trying Another Coast; Life in (and outside of) the Heartland; Expatriation et cetera; Afterword, without an End: Overseas American.

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