Immigration (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Stavans, Ilan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Immigration is a topic on the minds of a large portion of Americans. In 2006, a series of large marches and political debates shook the nation to the core. With the 2008 presidential campaign under way, the controversy is alive and well. However, it is essential to approach it in an informed, balanced fashion, and the material presented in this volume is designed to accomplish the task. To what extent are immigrants from Mexico and Central America different from their predecessors from say Italy, Poland, and Finland? Is the process of assimilation expected to be as successful today as it was a century ago? Has globalization changed the perspective of newcomers, making them remain loyal for a longer period of time to the place once called home? In what way is the Spanish language helping or impeding that assimilation?

This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best scholarship on the topic. Ten signed articles, essays, and interviews are included in the volume. Also featured is an introduction by Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost authorities on Latino culture, to provide historical background and cultural context; and suggestions for further reading to aid students in their research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313348037
• Artikelnr.: 38188213

Autorenporträt

Ilan Stavans has been called the czar of Latino culture in the United States by the New York Times and Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast by the Washington Post. Savans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the recipient of numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature Prize, the Antonia Pantoja Award, Chile's Presidential Medal, and the Ruben Dario Distinction. He earned an Emmy nomination as host of the PBS show La Plaza: Conversations with Ilan Stavans. He has taught at Columbia University, Oberlin College, and Smith College, among other institutions. He is the author of numerous titles, including Encyclopedia Latina (2005) and the forthcoming Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latin Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Introduction by Ilan Stavans I. Considerations The Baby
Bust: Who Will Do the Work? Who Will Pay the Takes? Rodolfo O. de la Garza
Proposition 187: Misrepresenting Immigrants and Immigration Otto Santa Ana
Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in
Late-Twentieth-Century America George J. Snchez Do Home-Country Political
Ties Limit Latino Immigrant Pursuit of U.S. Civic Engagement and
Citizenship? Louis DeSipio The Coyote and the Chicken Luis Alberto Urrea A
Soccer Season in Southwest Kansas Sam Quinones Theses on the Latino Bloc
Rosaura Snchez and Beatrice Pita II. Voices Gladys: An Immigrant Story Ilan
Stavans Headed North and The Runner Ramn 'Tianguis' Prez Conversations with
Ilan Stavans Rubn Martinez Contributors Selected Bibliography About the
Editor and Contributors