Archive for June, 2011

The Journey Begins

Posted By Zócalo On June 30, 2011

Constantino Diaz-Duran is a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. He is chronicling his walk from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate his eligibility for American citizenship. Below he explains why…

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Chocolate for Christmas

Posted By Zócalo On June 30, 2011

Angela Kocherga is border bureau chief for Belo TV. Before participating on a panel of journalists discussing the challenges of “Telling Mexico’s Stories,” she took questions in our Green Room…

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The Route

Posted By Zócalo On June 30, 2011

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Prey or Predator?

Posted By Zócalo On June 29, 2011

In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five probing questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to Juliet Eilperin, author of Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks…

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King Pleasure Meets the Philosophers (old school)

Posted By Zócalo On June 29, 2011

by Patricia Spears Jones

There I go     There I go
Derrida Derrida

Lacan at the bodega …

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How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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