Download or read book Cuban Immigrant and Londoner written by Mario Lopez-Goicoechea and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a certificate of naturalistion mean to an immigrant in Brexit-plagued modern Britain? How do we navigate the various identity markers we acquire through life? Which ones stand out? Which ones blend in and get forgotten? And why? How does language affect the process of adaptation to a new country? Should writing from an "English as an Additional Language (EAL)" perspective be seen through the prism of aesthetics (writing per se) or identity politics? What is masculinity in the 21st century? How big is the Afro-Cuban scene in London nowadays? Is it time the Cuban government acknowledged Virgilio Piñera's contribution to the island's literary canon and apologised for the way it treated the writer? What is the linguistic future of the next Latin American generation? Throughout almost a hundred pages, I will attempt to answer these and other questions. However, if you finish the book and are left with more interrogative sentences than statements, I will feel just as satisfied. My job as a writer has been done.
Download or read book A Cuban Refugee s Journey to the American Dream written by Gerardo M. Gonzalez and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply moving memoir, González recounts his remarkable journey from Cuba and his upward track through education in United States. At a time when the fates of millions of refugees and Hispanics in the United States has never been more uncertain, González's story is more important than ever.
Download or read book Isabel written by Isabel Mesa-Collins Ed. D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel, a Cuban American immigrant, has contemplated writing about her familys ordeal while living in Communist Cuba under the Castro regime. It is only after she suffers a sudden heart attack at the age of fifty-five that she realizes she needs to share her story with others who have had similar experiences. As a young girl growing up during turbulent times in her native Cuba, Isabel takes the reader through key events that changed her life and the anguish of persecution in her own country. Later, as an immigrant in the United States in the late sixties, Isabel experiences what it is to leave her beloved country while learning to acclimate to a new culture and learning a second language. In doing so, she experiences bullying, racism, conflict, and hopelessness. Fifty years after her arrival to the United States, the author looks back at her life thats filled with challenges as well as accomplishments. She reflects about her roles as mother, wife, daughter, and her thirty-two-year career as an educator.
Download or read book The Legacy of Exile written by Guillermo J. Grenier and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy of Exile , the latest entry in the New Immigrants Series, deals with one of the most visible and political of all U.S. immigrant groups-Cubans. This is a group that was welcomed to the United States, that transformed a major U.S. metropolitan area, that exerts a powerful-and controversial-impact on U.S. foreign policy, and that has achieved, in a relatively short time, economic success in this country. The theme of the book is that the Cuban presence has been shaped by the experience of exile. In understanding the case of the Cuban immigration to the United States, students will gain insight into the dynamics of U.S. immigration policy; the differences between immigrants and exiles; interethnic relations among newcomers and established residents; and the economic development of immigrant communities. Cuban immigrants provide a surprising and compelling case study of the relatively successful adaptation of an immigrant community. The book presents the long tradition of Cuban immigration to the United States; the elements of Cuban culture which have emerged and reinforced this tradition of migration; the impact that Cubans have had on the Miami area; as well as the changes within the community as Cubans develop into a well established minority group within the United States.
Download or read book Cuban Immigrants written by Tyler Omoth and published by Momentum. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Cuban immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions,primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publishe
Download or read book Freedom Flights written by Lorrin Philipson and published by Random House Trade. This book was released on 1980 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fatherlands written by Charles Bruns and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir with a twist about the journey of a Cuban American who was born Charles Lopez and is now known as Charles Bruns. The book covers what it was like for the author to be a New York kid and New Jersey guy during the second half of the 20th century, and the impact his identity and experiences as a son, stepson and father had on his family and career. It also touches upon Cuban immigration in the U.S. and Cuban Americans the author got to know during his life.
Download or read book Little Things Remembered written by Maria Luisa Salcines and published by Langmarc Pub. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nonfiction book tells stories of a family and their exile from Cuba and settlement in the Rio Grande Valley. Leaving behind their hard-earned social position and their future, they built a life here in the U.S. Ms. Salcines tells of love of family, of country left behind, and country found. The author was born in Cuba and immigrated with her family to the U.S. in1963. Her moving observations on love, parenting, and cultural identity are insightful, authentic, and heartfelt.
Download or read book Worm written by Edel Rodriguez and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “America’s illustrator in chief” (Fast Company), a stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family’s passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel Castro announced his surprising decision to let 125,000 traitors of the revolution, or “worms,” leave the country. The faltering economy and Edel’s family’s vocal discomfort with government surveillance had made their daily lives on a farm outside Havana precarious, and they secretly planned to leave. But before that happened, a dozen soldiers confiscated their home and property and imprisoned them in a detention center near the port of Mariel, where they were held with dissidents and criminals before being marched to a flotilla that miraculously deposited them, overnight, in Florida. Through vivid, stirring art, Worm tells a story of a boyhood in the midst of the Cold War, a family’s displacement in exile, and their tenacious longing for those they left behind. It also recounts the coming-of-age of an artist and activist, who, witnessing American’s turn from democracy to extremism, struggles to differentiate his adoptive country from the dictatorship he fled. Confronting questions of patriotism and the liminal nature of belonging, Edel Rodriguez ultimately celebrates the immigrants, maligned and overlooked, who guard and invigorate American freedom.
Download or read book Cuban Americans written by Hal Marcovitz and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a million people in the United States today claim Cuban ancestry. Some are the children or grandchildren of immigrants; others came to the country as immigrants themselves. Inside this book you'll find a short history of the Cuban immigrant experience in America. And you'll have the chance to learn more about people of Cuba who have found success in the United States. Chapter biographies of the following individuals help tell the story of today's Cuban Americans: U.S. senator Mel Martinez Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos Comic book artist Joe Quesada Internet entrepreneur Raul Fernandez Television journalist Soledad O'Brien Actress Cameron Diaz Pro baseball player Yunel Escobar The Cross-Currents features inside this book explore connections between people, places, events, and ideas. They provide additional context for better understanding the life and times of the subjects. This Gallup Resource Book contains information obtained from polls conducted by the Gallup Organization, an international polling institute that has been monitoring public opinion since 1935. Book jacket.
Download or read book Capital Cubans written by Margaret S. Boone and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Cuba with Love and Back written by Ernesto Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many older Americans, and especially those living in South Florida, Cuban immigration begins on page one of 1961, when the U.S. opened it's generous arms to welcome a mass exodus from Cuba. However, there is a slice of pre-1961 South Florida "Cuban" life that I dusted off and brought to the pages of "From Cuba With Love, & Back."The book is an endearing recollection of a Cuban family growing up in Miami, Florida. The antebellum days of fifteen years prior to the 1959 Cuban revolution and the mass exodus of 1961. "From Cuba With Love, & Back," depicts the softer, gentler sound and pace of the few Cubans who were already living in America.My parents did not pack political bags to come to America. They packed a suitcase with hopes and dreams. In 1945, my mother and father arrived in the United States, with the hope of finding steady work and the basic necessities to raise a loving family and provide for their children. For fifteen years, our home, neighborhood and Miami was nothing more than an idyllic landscape. Suddenly and unlike all the previous New Year's, when we as kids, would light firecrackers on dimly-lit Miami streets, a greater burst of light exploded on the streets of Havana on January 1, 1959! Cuba was undergoing a political overhaul. So too, our homes in quiet and quaint Miami, would soon thereafter become forums of intense discussions as only many Cubans know how to "discuss," by yelling! Miami would never again be quiet.
Download or read book The Business of Writing Volume 4 written by Simon Whaley and published by Simon Whaley. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you self-publish a book, do you really have to deposit a copy with the legal deposit libraries? How useful are the AI (artificial intelligence) grammar checkers, and how should writers use them? What is comparisonitis, and how should writers treat it?How do you start advertising your books, and are those newsletter services any good? Can writers make money on online platforms like Medium.com and are letters and fillers in magazines still profitable? These and many more questions are answered in this fourth volume of articles. Contributors include: Faith Martin, Naomi Hirahara, Lisa Lepki, Claire McGowan, Sharon Booth, Elaine Everest, Heather Allison, Catherine Clarke, Deb Potter, Jill Cooper, Tony Mitton, Louise Rose-Innes, Craig Martelle, Emily Organ, Alison Morton, MJ Porter, Kate Walker, John Jackson, Anita Faulkner, Marianne Rosen, Elana Johnson, Connor Whiteley, Eric Thomson, Maria Frankland, Mario Lopez-Goicoechea, Gemma Amor, Jason Hamilton, Maggie Cobbett, Melvina Young and Gledé Browne Kabongo.
Download or read book Multilingual Identities in a Global City written by D. Block and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with a discussion of the key issues of globalization, migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and global cities, David Block then turns to four detailed case studies: East Asian students living and working in London; foreign language teachers from France; London's growing Latino community; and second generation South Asian university students. Via these case studies the book explores the ambivalent and multi-layered identities of individuals who have crossed geographical and psychological borders during the course of their lifetimes and settled in London, the quintessential global city.
Download or read book Twitter and Tear Gas written by Zeynep Tufekci and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and participant in today’s social movements, Zeynep Tufekci explains in this accessible and compelling book the nuanced trajectories of modern protests—how they form, how they operate differently from past protests, and why they have difficulty persisting in their long-term quests for change. Tufekci speaks from direct experience, combining on-the-ground interviews with insightful analysis. She describes how the internet helped the Zapatista uprisings in Mexico, the necessity of remote Twitter users to organize medical supplies during Arab Spring, the refusal to use bullhorns in the Occupy Movement that started in New York, and the empowering effect of tear gas in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. These details from life inside social movements complete a moving investigation of authority, technology, and culture—and offer essential insights into the future of governance.
Download or read book Marriage Sex and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London written by Shannon McSheffrey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from both the ecclesiastical court system and the records of city and royal government, as well as advice manuals, chronicles, moral tales, and liturgical texts, Shannon McSheffrey focuses her study on England's largest city in the second half of the fifteenth century. Marriage was a religious union—one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church and imbued with deep spiritual significance—but the marital unit of husband and wife was also the fundamental domestic, social, political, and economic unit of medieval society. As such, marriage created political alliances at all levels, from the arena of international politics to local neighborhoods. Sexual relationships outside marriage were even more complicated. McSheffrey notes that medieval Londoners saw them as variously attributable to female seduction or to male lustfulness, as irrelevant or deeply damaging to society and to the body politic, as economically productive or wasteful of resources. Yet, like marriage, sexual relationships were also subject to control and influence from parents, relatives, neighbors, civic officials, parish priests, and ecclesiastical judges. Although by medieval canon law a marriage was irrevocable from the moment a man and a woman exchanged vows of consent before two witnesses, in practice marriage was usually a socially complicated process involving many people. McSheffrey looks more broadly at sex, governance, and civic morality to show how medieval patriarchy extended a far wider reach than a father's governance over his biological offspring. By focusing on a particular time and place, she not only elucidates the culture of England's metropolitan center but also contributes generally to our understanding of the social mechanisms through which premodern European people negotiated their lives.
Download or read book Epistemologies of the South written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.
