Immigrant Voices

Author : Megan Bayles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933147659
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Voices written by Megan Bayles and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteen stories collected in Immigrant Voices highlight the complex relationships of immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century with their families, friends, new surroundings, and home countries. The authors themselves have made many of the same kinds of transitions as the characters they portray, and they offer fresh perspectives on the immigrant experience. Coedited by award-winning author Achy Obejas and cultural studies scholar Megan Bayles, this anthology addresses the perennial questions about society and the individual that the authors of the Great Books have pondered for centuries. Letting Go to America, M. Evelina Galang. Absence, Daniel Alarcón. Mother the Big, Porochista Khakpour. The Bees, Part 1, Aleksandar Hemon. Grandmother's Garden, Meena Alexander. Otravida, Otravez, Junot Díaz. Wal-Mart Has Plantains, Sefi Atta. Fischer vs. Spassky, Lara Vapnyar. The Stations of the Sun, Reese Okyong Kwon. Echo, Laila Lalami. No Subject, Carolina De Robertis. The Science of Flight, Yiyun Li. Hot-Air Balloons, Edwidge Danticat. Home Safe, Emma Ruby-Sachs. SJU ATL DTW (San Juan Atlanta Detroit), Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Diógenes, Pablo Helguera. Bamboo, Eduardo Halfon. Encrucijada, Roberto G. Fernández.

Author : Tea Rozman Clark
Publisher : Green Card Youth Voices
ISBN 13 : 9781949523003
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration Stories from a Minneapolis High School written by Tea Rozman Clark and published by Green Card Youth Voices. This book was released on 2019 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by thirty immigrant and refugee high school students from thirteen countries who reside in Minneapolis.

Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062902
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Voices written by Thomas Dublin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ten immigrant stories from 1773 to 1986 by men and women from European, Latin American, and Asian countries which are based on letters, diaries, and oral histories.

Author : Thomas Dublin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252078729
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Voices written by Thomas Dublin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classroom staple, Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-2000 has been updated with writings that reflect trends in immigration to the United States through the turn of the twenty-first century. New chapters include a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s. With each addition editor Thomas Dublin has kept to his original goals, which was to show the commonalities of the U.S. immigrant experience across lines of gender, nation of origin, race, and even time.

Author : Gordon Hutner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0451526988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Voices written by Gordon Hutner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With narratives from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this anthology provides a historical and uniquely personal perspective on the immigrant experience and illuminates the often difficult dream of becoming an American citizen. From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s defining statement of Americanism to Harlem Renaissance figure Claude McKay’s observations on race, here are both rousing and heartbreaking impressions of those who departed from their homlands in the hopes of making a new life. Reconciling their old traditions with their new land, these immigrants faced such adversity as assimilation, prejudice, poverty, homesickness, and identity. Filled with inspiring stories of immigrants who traveled from Mexico, India, China, Korea, Syria, and beyond, Immigrant Voices reveals—in their own words—how these newcomers were able to persevere and make their mark on the “New World.”

Author : Cristina Tzintzún
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849351678
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Presente! written by Cristina Tzintzún and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right have crafted an image rooted in fear, demonizing undocumented immigrants as a threat to national security and raising the specter of a deliberate "browning of America." Left-leaning journalists, on the other hand, foreground victimization, emphasizing the plight of immigrants, stripping them of their agency. Neither captures the range of experiences within undocumented immigrant communities, and both fail to see immigrants as active participants in their own struggle for racial and economic justice. Presente! offers a rare perspective on the immigrant-rights movement, written by immigrant workers themselves. Including a range of essays exploring the intersection of race, class, and immigration in the United States, this anthology challenges its readers to move beyond a "legalization-only" framework and embrace a broader vision for social justice organizing embodied in the work of grassroots organizations across the country resisting state repression, cultivating solidarity, and building alternative models for progressive social change. Offered in a dual-language edition, with a foreword by Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzáles. Cristina Tzintzún is the executive director of Workers Defense Project, a Texas based workers' rights organization. Carlos Pérez de Alejo is the executive director of Cooperation Texas, an organization dedicated to the creation of sustainable jobs through the development, support, and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives. Arnulfo Manríquez is an organizer at Workers Defense Project, where he organizes immigrant construction workers to defend their labor and human rights.

Author : Terri Lapinsky
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1941176097
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kids Like Me written by Terri Lapinsky and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether fleeing the ravages of war or coming in search of opportunities, the story of immigration remains the principal narrative of our times. As our neighborhoods grow more diverse, a splendid variety of cultures, values and traditions become an important part of our classrooms and schools. In Kids Like Me, 26 personal narratives celebrate the experience of young people making a new home in a strange community-finding common ground as they make new friends, learn English, share their cultural identities, their challenges, successes and dreams. Kids Like Me provides a youthful perspective on the important themes of crossing cultures, immigration and citizenship and learning to appreciate differences. These stories are intended to foster intercultural awareness and sensitivity and encourage individual and community action to assist newcomers in their adjustment. While written to help youth understand their classmates and friends, Kids Like Me also includes discussion questions, self-directed activities and research ideas for teachers and other mentors that can be used in classrooms, youth clubs and community settings. Richly illustrated with photos and maps of each home country, the text presents countless opportunities to explore and understand different cultures and new friends. Young people who have come from all over the world share their stories and invite their new neighbors to see that in so many ways these kids are just like me.

Author : Tea Rozman Clark
Publisher : Green Card Stem Voices
ISBN 13 : 9781949523140
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inspiring Stories of Minnesota Immigrants written by Tea Rozman Clark and published by Green Card Stem Voices. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of digital narratives and personal essays written by 20 immigrants and refugees working in STEM and residing in Minnesota.

Author : Francis Musoni
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813178622
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky written by Francis Musoni and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rich blend of narrative history, personal recollections, and heart-wrenching oral testimonials . . . powerful.” —Imali J. Abala, author of The Dreamer With an introduction that provides a historical and theoretical overview of African immigration, the heart of this book is built around oral history interviews with forty-seven of the more than twenty-two thousand Africa-born immigrants in Kentucky. A former ambassador from Gambia, a pharmacist from South Africa, a restaurant owner from Guinea, a certified nursing assistant from the Democratic Republic of Congo—every immigrant has a unique and complex story of their life experiences and the decisions that led them to emigrate to the United States. The compelling narratives in this book reveal why and how these immigrants came to the Bluegrass state—whether it was coming voluntarily as a student or forced because of war—and how they connect with and contribute to their home countries as well as to the US. The immigrants describe their challenges—language, loneliness, cultural differences, credentials for employment, ignorance toward Africa, and racism—and positive experiences such as education, job opportunities, and helpful people. One chapter focuses on family—including interviews with the second generations—and how the immigrants identify themselves. “Compelling . . . a must read for anyone seeking the substance behind the newspaper headlines and statistics.” —Frank X Walker, author of Affrilachia

Author : Nikesh Shukla
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316524298
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Immigrant written by Nikesh Shukla and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washington Post). From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively and vital," editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack. Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. These writers, and the many others in this urgent collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong.