Author: Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa Publisher: Texas Christian University Press ISBN: 9780875656335 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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A Mexican Dream and Other Compositions presents a rare collection of interwoven essays chronicling the fascinating history of the Cigarroa family and their influence on the Texas-Mexico border landscape. Barbara Gonz lez Cigarroa brings to life stories of her ancestors and other family members, including: Rebecca Iriarte, who raised her five children during the Mexican Revolution of 1910; Judge Manuel J. Raymond, one of the last of the border patrones who expertly navigated contrasting cultures across border lines; Henry B. Gonz lez, US Congressman and the first Mexican American elected to the Texas Senate during a time of blatant racial discrimination; Dr. Joaquin Gonz lez Cigarroa Jr., a revered physician and education activist; Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, pediatric transplant surgeon and former chancellor of the University of Texas system; Barbara Flores Cigarroa, a mother of ten whose values and resolve inspired her children and many grandchildren to excel in the finest universities and beyond. In presenting richly detailed vignettes with keen observation and grace, Cigarroa offers captivating and original insights not only into her family's remarkable story, but also into the beauty of the extraordinary traits and enduring spirit of the people of our Texas borderlands.
Author: J. M. G. Le Clézio Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226110028 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 244
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A widely respected French novelist with a long history of interest in pre-Columbian Mexico, Le Clezio imagined how the thought of early Indian civilizations might have evolved if not for the interruption of European conquest. A powerful evocation of the imaginings that made and unmade an ancient culture. Map.
Author: Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 0875656420 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 157
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A Mexican Dream and Other Compositions presents a rare collection of interwoven essays chronicling the fascinating history of the Cigarroa family and their influence on the Texas-Mexico border landscape. Barbara González Cigarroa brings to life stories of her ancestors and other family members, including: Rebecca Iriarte, who raised her five children during the Mexican Revolution of 1910; Judge Manuel J. Raymond, one of the last of the border patrones who expertly navigated contrasting cultures across border lines; Henry B. González, US Congressman and the first Mexican American elected to the Texas Senate during a time of blatant racial discrimination; Dr. Joaquin González Cigarroa Jr., a revered physician and education activist; Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, pediatric transplant surgeon and former chancellor of the University of Texas system; Barbara Flores Cigarroa, a mother of ten whose values and resolve inspired her children and many grandchildren to excel in the finest universities and beyond. In presenting richly detailed vignettes with keen observation and grace, Cigarroa offers captivating and original insights not only into her family’s remarkable story, but also into the beauty of the extraordinary traits and enduring spirit of the people of our Texas borderlands.
Author: Leah Sarat Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814759378 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 254
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- "Offers its readers an opportunity to witness the fantastic capacity of seemingly marginal people to...carve out a future." - Ella Schmidt, author of The Dream Fields of Florida "Beautifully illustrates the complex intersections of religion and immigration." - Virginia Garrard-Burnett, The University of Texas at Austin
Author: Camille Guerin-Gonzales Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813520483 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 224
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Earlier in this century, over one million Mexican immigrants moved to the United States, attracted by the prospect of work in California's fields. The Mexican farmworkers were tolerated by Americans as long as there was enough work to go around. During the Great Depression, though, white Americans demanded that Mexican workers and their families return to Mexico. In the 1930s, the federal government and county relief agencies forced the repatriation of half a million Mexicans--and some Mexican Americans as well. Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the repatriation program--one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the U.S. government. She exposes the powers arrayed against Mexicans as well as the patterns of Mexican resistance, and she maps out constructions of national and ethnic identity across the contested terrain of the American Dream.
Author: Edgar H. Hernandez Publisher: Cartwright Publishing ISBN: 9781732173606 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 328
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On the Border of a Dream tells the true story of a boy from rural Mexico, who at a young age sets his mind to becoming a surgeon in the USA. This memoir follows Edgar Hernandez from his tight-knit family in Mexico through his journeys to the USA. This is an inspiring story of a talented immigrant who achieves his dream: becoming a renowned surgeon.
Author: Leah Sarat Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479839787 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 254
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The canyon in central Mexico was ablaze with torches as hundreds of people filed in. So palpable was their shared shock and grief, they later said, that neither pastor nor priest was needed. The event was a memorial service for one of their own who had died during an attempted border passage. Months later a survivor emerged from a coma to tell his story. The accident had provoked a near-death encounter with God that prompted his conversion to Pentecostalism. Today, over half of the local residents of El Alberto, a town in central Mexico, are Pentecostal. Submitting themselves to the authority of a God for whom there are no borders, these Pentecostals today both embrace migration as their right while also praying that their “Mexican Dream”—the dream of a Mexican future with ample employment for all—will one day become a reality. Fire in the Canyon provides one of the first in‑depth looks at the dynamic relationship between religion, migration, and ethnicity across the U.S.-Mexican border. Faced with the choice between life‑threatening danger at the border and life‑sapping poverty in Mexico, residents of El Alberto are drawing on both their religion and their indigenous heritage to demand not only the right to migrate, but also the right to stay home. If we wish to understand people's migration decisions, Sarat argues, we must take religion seriously. It is through religion that people formulate their ideas about life, death, and the limits of government authority.
Author: Sergio Magana Publisher: Hay House, Inc ISBN: 1781804397 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 312
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In this remarkable book, the renowned Mexican healer Sergio Magaña reveals the fascinating secrets of the ancient Toltec tradition. Closed to outsiders until now, this rich spiritual tradition is over 5,000 years old. The original holders of this secret knowledge, the Chichimeca, were considered to be masters, with a deep understanding of the dream state and a working knowledge of how our perceptions form our reality, as well as the capacity to influence matter. The Toltec Secret reveals the incredibly powerful rituals and symbols that will enable you to: • become lucid in your dreams • create your life through your dreams like the Toltecs did • send healing to others while in the dreaming state • communicate with your ancestors • develop your intuition and use Toltec techniques to see the aura • heal and rejuvenate your body by connecting with the energy of the sun • use the mysterious obsidian mirror for healing yourself and others • practise the powerful dances of the Toltecs and Mexihcas.
Author: Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa
Author: J. M. G. Le Clézio
Author: J. M. G. Le Clezio
Author: Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa
Author: Leah Sarat
Author: Camille Guerin-Gonzales
Author: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Author: Edgar H. Hernandez
Author: Leah Sarat
Author: Sergio Magana