Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
by Héctor Tobar
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Presents a collection of essays that explores the growing population of Latino-Americans in the United States, and examines the ways in which Hispanic communities are influencing American society.Tags
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BLAH what a disappointment!!
-completely scattered with only a loose theme of spanish speakers + US, overly self-loving author trying to make a memoir of a very average life, and i received NOTHING from this book. yuck.
-completely scattered with only a loose theme of spanish speakers + US, overly self-loving author trying to make a memoir of a very average life, and i received NOTHING from this book. yuck.
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Héctor Tobar was born in 1963 in Los Angeles, California. He received an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine and became a reporter with the Los Angeles Times in the 1980's. Along with a team of writers, he was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the L.A. riots in 1992. He has written both fiction and non-fiction works. show more His novels include The Tattooed Soldier and The Barbarian Nurseries, which won the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction. His non-fiction works include Translation Nation and Deep Down Dark. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Dedication
- For Virginia Espino
- First words
- Long before I understood what the word "revolution" meant, when I was a five-year-old boy growing up in the seamier half of Hollywood, California, I knew the face of Che Guevara.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That same century ended with Spanish-speaking chicken workers and furniture makers building the Catholic Church that rises on the edge of town, on a hill overlooking the forests where, in still other centuries, men with bayoneted rifles marched into battle, and Creek Indian women washed clothes in the rivers.
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- Keneally, Thomas; Rodriguez, Richard; Urrea, Luis Alberto; Stavans, Ilan
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- Nonfiction, Sociology, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 305.868 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups People who speak, or whose ancestors spoke, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician Spanish Americans
- LCC
- E184 .S75 .T63 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans
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- English
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