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Don't forget the accent mark : a memoir / David A. Sánchez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sánchez, David A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sánchez, David A.
- Hispanic Americans--Biography.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 102 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- No matter how successfully we transcend our origins, they remain part of our lives. This autobiography of an outstanding mathematician whose career included stints as a senior university and federal administrator is also the story of a young man of mixed Mexican and American parentage. Raised in a Mexican home in an Anglo neighborhood, David Sanchez was fluent in Spanish and English when he entered kindergarten. His last name was garden variety Spanish, but he was fair skinned; his English was unaccented; and his Spanish was pure Mexican. None of this should have had any influence on the career path he chose, but at certain moments it did. With the birth of the Chicano Movement and affirmative action, a different and sometimes disturbing significance became attached to his name. Sanchez's story chronicles his life and Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Early days
- Secondary school days
- College : the first two years
- New Mexico: visit one
- Ann Arbor : visit one
- Semper Fi : the first year
- Semper Fi : Sayonara
- Ann Arbor : visit two
- The windy city and English life
- Westwood days
- New Mexico : visit two
- Paper-pushing days : private and federal
- A brief Texas interlude
- Academe and New Mexico : the final visit.
- ISBN:
- 9780826350473
- 082635047X
- 9780826350480
- 0826350488
- OCLC:
- 693560791
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