Latino sun, rising : our Spanish-speaking U.S. world / Marco Portales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portales, Marco, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portales, Marco, 1948-.

Portales, Marco.

Mexican Americans--Biography.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican American teachers--Biography.

Mexican American teachers.

Mexican Americans--Ethnic identity.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

Hispanic Americans--Social conditions.

Hispanic Americans.

Texas, South--Biography.

Texas, South.

Texas, South--Social life and customs.

Texas, South--Social conditions.

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now that Latinos are the most numerous ethnic minority in the United States and a growing part of the middle and professional classes, a Mexican American educator takes stock. Latinos can see that their sun is rising. Marco Portales knows; his life has been lived under that rising sun. On the beach at Corpus Christi, in class at SUNY-Buffalo, waiting tables in Chicago, traveling to London, teaching at Berkeley, raising a family near NASA headquarters in Houston--Portales gives readers a view of the private world and public significance of Latinos. By vividly recreating his parents' generation as well as his own, Marco Portales encourages readers to consider Latino progress since the days of his happy youth during the Eisenhower fifties, years that coalesced into the gradual but steady unfurling of his ethnic consciousness. Working within a traditional Aztec framework of "suns" or days, Portales looks through the window of individual life onto the "morning" ("sol ""naciente"")" of growing up as a minority member of American society, the "noontime" "(sol ""ardiente"")" of private adult life and the transmission of identity to a new generation, and the full heat of afternoon "(sol ""radiante""), " when public business is done and the larger polity is addressed. In the compelling details of a life truly lived--and a balanced, lively intellect that articulates itself in a society that often asks people such as him to choose between their American and Mexican identities--Portales inscribes himself into his people's experience. At the same time, he remains fully aware--and helps raise our awareness--that no one person's story can embody and represent the ancestral histories and the great worth and potential of all U.S. Latinos.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Sol Naciente: Youth

Urban Renewal on the Hometown Block in Edinburg

South Padre, Isla del Padre Ballí

Largest Texas Shrine

The Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi

Solo

Sol Ardiente: Parenthood

Voices, Desires Being Wishful

Education

Puerto Rico or Houston

Apples after School, and the Alamo

Harvard Visit

Fishing at the Point in Seabrook

An Aztec Reverie

Mi Tierra in San Antonio

Indian Trails and the Texas A&M/UT Presidential Corridor

Among Mullets, One Galveston Summer

Disney World Florida Trip

The Rain-Blessed Mountains of Costa Rica

Projecting Consciousness in Maximum Security

Evoking Rimsky-Korsakov on the Eve of a Move

Leaving the NASA Johnson Space Center Neighbors

Rio Grande Valley Meditation

Showdown across the Border in Reynosa

Sol Radiante: Public Policy Issues

On Seeing Giant, after Avoiding the Film Many Years

Words for Better Lives

Reinventing Ourselves

Race Should Not Matter

Affirmative Action

Diversity Is Natural

On the Theory of Bilingual Education

Latin America and the United States and Mexico

Heat, Undocumented Workers, and the Border Patrol

Luis Alfonso Torres, the Mexican Rodney King

NAFTA and the Maquiladora Babies

A Realization and a Memory in Southmost Texas

Latino Voting and Election Promises

Batos Locos

El Día de los Muertos in the United States

Regarding a Mexican Imerican Holiday

War in Iraq

Thanksgiving Idyll

The Idea of a Mexican American/Latino Exhibit

A New Language

Year-End Thoughts

What Latinos Want.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-299-05311-4

1-60344-456-4

OCLC:

698590826