Meet Olga Madar, labor unionist, feminist, and softball ringer
Olga Madar came of age in the aftermath of the Great Depression. The labor movement was on the rise and seeking to harness recreation, especially sports leagues, as a form of union building. Before the Depression, early U.S. corporations used that same practice to build company cohesion, but abandoned it during the Depression Era. In the late 1930s through the early 1950s, leftist organizers responded to worker demand where corporations wouldn’t by providing access to cheap recreational programs. As labor won more leisure time and
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Thank you, all--this is exceptionally helpful!
Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World is a short novel about border crossing, by a Mexican writer, with a tough, engaging protagonist. It's somewhat surreal, as seems appropriate in our times.
Cristina Henriquez's The Book of Unknown Americans follows Latinx families/individuals from different countries, all living in the same apartment building in Delaware, and is great for surfacing cultural differences, hostility and caring among immigrants arriving decades apart. My students in a course on immigration loved it.
Hi Ryan,
I have two texts that might fit the bill, both of which I've used in introductory composition courses at the community college where I teach:
• Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
• Brando Skyhorse, The Madonnas of Echo Park
Of the two, I'd strongly recommend Skyhorse (my students and I both found Tobar's novel over-written and tedious). It's a series of interconnected stories, each narrated from a different point of view, all set in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. I've taught the whole thing as well as just the fictional "Author's Note." My students loved it, and it
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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for its 2020-2021 Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present. We especially welcome proposals that will utilize the special collections of the Yale University Libraries or other research collections of the New England area, and explicitly engage issues of slavery, resistance, abolition, and their
Coloniality of the US/Mexico Border: Power, Violence, and the Decolonial Imperative
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National borders are often taken for granted as normal and necessary for a peaceful and orderly global civil society. Roberto D. Hernández here advances a provocative argument that borders—and border violence—are geospatial manifestations of long histories of racialized and gendered colonial violence.
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Hi Lynne,
If it's not on your list, I recommend Redefining Realness by Janet Mock. It is usually well received with undergrads. Several students will probably already know who she is and the book raises important questions about race and gender from the perspective of a black trans woman.
Best,
Kadin Henningsen
PhD Student in 19th American Lit and Transgender Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World is a short novel about border crossing, by a Mexican writer, with a tough, engaging protagonist. It's somewhat surreal, as seems appropriate in our times.
Cristina Henriquez's The Book of Unknown Americans follows Latinx families/individuals from different countries, all living in the same apartment building in Delaware, and is great for surfacing cultural differences, hostility and caring among immigrants arriving decades apart. My students in a course on immigration loved it.
Hi Ryan,
I have two texts that might fit the bill, both of which I've used in introductory composition courses at the community college where I teach:
• Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries
• Brando Skyhorse, The Madonnas of Echo Park
Of the two, I'd strongly recommend Skyhorse (my students and I both found Tobar's novel over-written and tedious). It's a series of interconnected stories, each narrated from a different point of view, all set in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. I've taught the whole thing as well as just the fictional "Author's Note." My students loved it, and it