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Author:   Jennifer De Leon
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780803245938

ISBN 10:   0803245939
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Souce Acknowledgments Introduction    Jennifer De LeonI. World's ApartGoing the Distance    Blanca TorresScrambled Channels    Yalitza FerrerasWhiteGirlColorlessAfriPana    Gail M. DottinNomadic    Ingrid Rojas ContrerasLeaving Miami    Chantel AcevedoII. Rooms of Our OwnLas Otras    Celeste Guzman MendozaPancakes at 2 a.m.    Stephanie Elizondo GriestIndependence    Iris GomezStories She Told Us    Daisy HerándezWho Goes to College?    Cecilia Rodriguez MilanésI'm Living in a Foreign Country    Toni Margarita PlummerMy Stalker    Loraine M. LópezIII. Inside These Academic WallsRapunzel's Ladder    Julia AlvarezDerrumbando Muros along an Academic Path    Norma Elia CantúOn Becoming Educated    Joy CastroLa Silla    Ruth BeharIV. In Tribute, In TimeThe Weight of Paper    Beatriz TerrazasTo My Younger Self    Erika MartínezAfter Yale    Li Yun AlvaradoHow to Leave Hialeah    Jennine Capó CrucetOnly Daughter    Sandra Cisneros Contributors

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An extraordinary collection of testimonies. There is plenty of honesty and no pretension in the voices included in Wise Latinas . These essays elicit the gamut of emotions from the reader, from chuckles to gasps to tears. An excellent anthology. --Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa --Rigoberto Gonz lez (09/20/2013)

The abundance of high-quality material makes the book hard to put down. -Kirkus Kirkus [Wise Latinas] holds relevance for any young person setting out of their homes for the first time. -Ru Freeman, Huffington Post -- Ru Freeman Huffington Post An extraordinary collection of testimonies. There is plenty of honesty and no pretension in the voices included in Wise Latinas. These essays elicit the gamut of emotions from the reader, from chuckles to gasps to tears. An excellent anthology. -Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa -- Rigoberto Gonzalez On the most fundamental level, Wise Latinas aims to provide models for other Latinas... [It was] a joy to read this book, and a reminder of the footsteps that we all trace. -Marta Caminero-Santangelo, author of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity -- Marta Caminero-Santangelo

On the most fundamental level, Wise Latinas aims to provide models for other Latinas. . . . [It was] a joy to read this book, and a reminder of the footsteps that we all trace. --Marta Caminero-Santangelo, author of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity --Marta Caminero-Santangelo (09/20/2013)

Author Information

Jennifer De Leon is a teacher in the Boston Public Schools district and an instructor at the Grub Street Creative Writing Center. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Fourth Genre, Ms. Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere.

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