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Strangers Among Us

Latino Lives in a Changing America

By: Roberto Suro

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Strangers Among Us

Latino Lives in a Changing America

By: Roberto Suro

Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliché-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to come. In making vivid an array of people, places, and events that are little known to most Americans, the author--an American journalist who is himself the son of Latino immigrants--makes an often bewildering phenom-enon vastly more understandable. He tells the stories of a number of large Latino communities, linked in a chronological narrative that starts with the Puerto Rican migration to East Harlem in the 1950s and continues through the California-bound rush of Mexicans and Central Americans in the 1990s. He takes us into the world of Mexican-American gang members; Guatemalan Mayas in suburban Houston; Cuban businessmen in Miami; Dominican bodega owners in New York. We see people who represent a unique transnationalism and a new form of immigrant assimilation--foreigners who come from close by and visit home frequently, so that they virtually live in two lands. Like other groups of immigrants who preceded them onto American shores, Latinos, as they begin to find a place for themselves here, are changing the way this nation thinks of itself. These are people who defy easy categorization: they are neither white nor black; their households often include both legal and illegal immigrants; most struggle toward some kind of economic stability, but so many others fall short that they have become the new face of the urban poor. Some Latinos endure the special poverty of people who work long hours for wages that barely ensure survival. Their children grow up learning more from their televisions than from their teachers, knowing what they want from America but not how to get it. Looking to the future, we see clearly that the sheer number of Latino newcomers will force the United States to develop new means of managing relations among diverse ethnic groups and of creating economic opportunity for all. But we also see a catalog of conflict and struggle: Latinos in confrontation with blacks; Latinos wrestling with the strain of illegal immigration on their communities; Latinos fighting the backlash that is denying legal immigrants access to welfare programs. Critical both of incoherent government policies and of the failures of minority-group advocacy, the author proposes solutions of his own, including a rejection of illegal immigration by Latinos themselves paired with government efforts to deter unlawful journeys into the United States, and a new emphasis on English-language training as an aid to successful assimilation. Roberto Suro has written a timely, controversial, and hugely illuminating book.

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Vintage

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Strangers Among Us

Latino Lives in a Changing America

By: Roberto Suro

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Lives in Limbo

Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

By: Roberto G. Gonzales

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Lives in Limbo

Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

By: Roberto G. Gonzales

Over two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, whose good grades and strong network of community support propelled him into higher education, only to land in a factory job a few years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This ethnography asks why highly educated undocumented youth ultimately share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, even as higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Gonzales bookends his study with discussions of how the prospect of immigration reform, especially the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, could impact the lives of these young Americans"--Provided by publisher.

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318

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Univ of California Press

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0520287266

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9780520287266

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

By: Roberto Bolaño

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Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

By: Roberto Bolaño

Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.

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401

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New Directions Publishing

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0811218147

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9780811218146

War and Border Crossings

Ethics When Cultures Clash

By: Peter A. French,Jason A. Short

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War and Border Crossings

Ethics When Cultures Clash

By: Peter A. French,Jason A. Short

War and Border Crossings brings together renowned scholars to address some of the most pressing problems in public policy, international affairs, and the intercultural issues of our day. Contributors from widely varying disciplines discuss cross-cultural ethical issues and international topics ranging from American international policy and the invasion and occupation of Iraq to domestic topics such as immigration, the war on drugs, cross-cultural bioethics and ethical issues involving American Indian tribes. The culture clashes discussed in these essays raise serious questions about what principles ought to inform the negotiating of conflicts in order to achieve, or at least approach, outcomes that are fundamentally just, fair, responsible, and ethical.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461621348

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9781461621348

National Survey of Latinos, 2002

Summary of Findings, Toplines and Chartpack

By: Marilyn Brodie,Roberto Suro

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National Survey of Latinos, 2002

Summary of Findings, Toplines and Chartpack

By: Marilyn Brodie,Roberto Suro

Explores the attitudes & experiences of Hispanics on a wide variety of topics. This survey was designed to capture the diversity of the Latino population by including almost 3,000 Hispanics from various backgrounds & groups so that in addition to describing Latinos overall, comparisons can be made among key Hispanic subgroups as well. Chapters: description of adult Latinos; identity: the terms Latinos choose to describe themselves, & Hispanics & pan-ethnic identity; assimilation: Latino views of the U.S., & behavior, values, religion & views on gov't.; experiences with & views about discrimination; financial & economic experiences; & health care experiences. Includes 38-chart Chartpack & a 115-chart Toplines. Comprehensive!

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0756732336

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Strangers Among Us

Strangers Among Us

Strangers Among Us

Strangers Among Us

Lives in Limbo

Lives in Limbo

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

War and Border Crossings

War and Border Crossings

National Survey of Latinos, 2002

National Survey of Latinos, 2002

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