Download or read book Immigrant Baggage written by Maxim D. Shrayer and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future. In this poignant literary memoir, internationally acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer (Waiting for America) explores both material and immaterial aspects of immigrant baggage. Through a combination of dispassionate reportage, gentle irony, and confessional remembrance, Shrayer writes about traversing the borders and boundaries of the three cultures that have nourished him—Russian, Jewish, and American. The spirit of nonconformism and the power of laughter come to the rescue of Shrayer’s autobiographical protagonist when he faces existential calamities and life’s misadventures. The aftermath of a dangerous ski accident in Italy reminds the memoirist of history’s black holes. A haunting, Soviet-era theatrical affair pushes the émigré protagonist to the brink of a disaster in a provincial Russian town. Attempting to collect overdue royalties from a Moscow publisher, the expatriate writer tips his hat to Kafka. The book’s six interconnected tales are held together by the memorist’s imperative to make the ordinary absurd and the absurd—ordinary. Shrayer parses a translingual literary life filled with travel, politics, and discovery—and sustained by family love and faith in art’s transcendence.

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Download or read book Racial Baggage written by Sylvia Zamora and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "illegal." This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with them, as the "pigmentocracy" of Mexican society, in which their skin color may have afforded them more privileges within their home country, collides with the American racial system. Racial Baggage examines how immigration reconfigures U.S. race relations, illuminating how the immigration experience can transform understandings of race in home and host countries. Drawing on interviews with Mexicans in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, sociologist Sylvia Zamora illustrates how racialization is a transnational process that not only changes immigrants themselves, but also everyday understandings of race and racism within the United States and Mexico. Within their communities and networks that span an international border, Zamora argues, immigrants come to define "race" in a way distinct from both the color-conscious hierarchy of Mexican society and the Black-White binary prevalent within the United States. In the process, their stories demonstrate how race is not static, but rather an evolving social phenomenon forever altered by immigration.

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Download or read book Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. State Board of Health and Vital Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Immigrant and Native Families written by Hilda H. Golden and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides precise information on historical demographic patterns, which are highly relevant to the issue of how immigration affected major demographic changes in the United States during the time of massive industrialization. Contents: The Significance of Nativity and Ethnic Origin; Sources, Data, and Methods; The Impact of Immigration on Household Sizes and Components, 1850-1900; The Impact of Immigration on Household Types, 1850-1900; Immigration and Fertility Change in Western Massachusetts, 1850-1900; Nativity and Ethnic Differences in Marital Fertility in 1900; Childbearing Patterns and Fertility Limitations; Mortality Levels and Trends in Western Massachusetts, 1850-1900; Rethinking Demographic Change: Western Massachusetts as a Case Study.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Sanitary Convention written by Michigan. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings and Addresses at a Sanitary Convention written by Michigan. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings and Addresses at a Sanitary Convention under the Direction of a Committee of the State Board of Health written by Michigan. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings and Addresses at a Sanitary Convention Held at Under the Direction of a Committee of the State Board of Health written by Michigan. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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