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Meet Olga Madar, labor unionist, feminist, and softball ringer
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Meet Olga Madar, labor unionist, feminist, and softball ringer
Thank you, all--this is exceptionally helpful!
Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World is a short novel about border crossing, by a Mexican writer, with a tough, engaging protagonist. It's somewhat surreal, as seems appropriate in our times.
Cristina Henriquez's The Book of Unknown Americans follows Latinx families/individuals from different countries, all living in the same apartment building in Delaware, and is great for surfacing cultural differences, hostility and caring among immigrants arriving decades apart. My students in a course on immigration loved it.
Hi Ryan,
I have two texts that might fit the bill, both of which I've used in introductory composition courses at the community college where I teach:
• Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
• Brando Skyhorse, The Madonnas of Echo Park
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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for its 2020-2021 Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present.
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/coloniality-of-the-us-mexico-border
National borders are often taken for granted as normal and necessary for a peaceful and orderly global civil society. Roberto D. Hernández here advances a provocative argument that borders—and border violence—are geospatial manifestations of long histories of racialized and gendered colonial violence.
Oral History Summer School is back in session this Winter with three workshops in Hudson and New York City. Come all ye documentarians, journalists, artists, media-makers, educators and those looking to learn new things in good company. Open to all levels, no experience necessary.
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Thank you, all--this is exceptionally helpful!
Hi Lynne,
If it's not on your list, I recommend Redefining Realness by Janet Mock. It is usually well received with undergrads. Several students will probably already know who she is and the book raises important questions about race and gender from the perspective of a black trans woman.
Best,
Kadin Henningsen
PhD Student in 19th American Lit and Transgender Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World is a short novel about border crossing, by a Mexican writer, with a tough, engaging protagonist. It's somewhat surreal, as seems appropriate in our times.
Cristina Henriquez's The Book of Unknown Americans follows Latinx families/individuals from different countries, all living in the same apartment building in Delaware, and is great for surfacing cultural differences, hostility and caring among immigrants arriving decades apart. My students in a course on immigration loved it.
Hi Ryan,
I have two texts that might fit the bill, both of which I've used in introductory composition courses at the community college where I teach:
• Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
• Brando Skyhorse, The Madonnas of Echo Park