America Border Culture Dreamer
Title | America Border Culture Dreamer PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Ewald |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0316484970 |
First- and second-generation immigrants to the US from all around the world collaborate with renowned photographer Wendy Ewald to create a stunning, surprising catalog of their experiences from A to Z. In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful images and definitions along with their personal stories of change, hardship, and hope. Created in a collaboration with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, this book casts a new light on the crucial, under-heard voices of teenage immigrants themselves, making a vital contribution to the timely national conversation about immigration in America.
America, Border, Culture, Dreamer
Title | America, Border, Culture, Dreamer PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Ewald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 59 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Children of immigrants |
ISBN | 9780316484985 |
First- and second-generation immigrants to the US from all around the world collaborate with renowned photographer Wendy Ewald to create a stunning, surprising catalog of their experiences from A to Z. In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful images and definitions along with their personal stories of change, hardship, and hope. Created in a collaboration with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, this book casts a new light on the crucial, under-heard voices of teenage immigrants themselves, making a vital contribution to the timely national conversation about immigration in America.
We Are Not Dreamers
Title | We Are Not Dreamers PDF eBook |
Author | Leisy J. Abrego |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2020-08-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478012382 |
The widely recognized “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—themselves currently or formerly undocumented—poignantly counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling with the nuances of undocumented life in this country. Theorizing those excluded from the Dreamer category—academically struggling students, transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of undocumented immigrants while granting full and unconditional rights. Illuminating how various institutions reproduce and benefit from exclusionary narratives, this volume articulates the dangers of the Dreamer narrative and envisions a different way forward. Contributors. Leisy J. Abrego, Gabrielle Cabrera, Gabriela Garcia Cruz, Lucía León, Katy Joseline Maldonado Dominguez, Grecia Mondragón, Gabriela Monico, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Maria Liliana Ramirez, Joel Sati, Audrey Silvestre, Carolina Valdivia
American Dreamer
Title | American Dreamer PDF eBook |
Author | Choyo Gomex |
Publisher | Choyo Gomex |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-04-23 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN |
American Dreamer Embark on a transformative journey towards success in the land of opportunity with "American Dreamer" by Choyo Gomex. In this empowering guide, Choyo draws from his own experiences as an immigrant from Mexico who overcame numerous challenges to thrive in the United States. Whether you're navigating the complexities of the American job market, seeking to enhance your English proficiency, or aspiring to start your own business, this book offers practical advice and inspirational insights to help you achieve your dreams. Discover the keys to understanding American culture, mastering English, and building a fulfilling career path. "American Dreamer" celebrates the resilience and diversity of immigrants, highlighting their invaluable contributions to American society. Through personal anecdotes and success stories, Choyo Gomex inspires readers to persevere, embrace challenges.
Dreamer Nation
Title | Dreamer Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Ana Milena Ribero |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2023-09-21 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0817360956 |
""Dreamer Nation" tells the rhetorical story of how Dreamers during the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant rights and empower undocumented youth to proudly represent their lives and identities, all while under the ever-present threat of detention and deportation. By examining the activist rhetorics of the Dreamer movement, "Dreamer Nation" illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically-in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youth. Contributing to rhetorical studies of social movements, immigration, and minoritized rhetorics, Ana Milena Ribero argues that even though Dreamer rhetorics were reflective of the discursive limits of the neoliberal milieu, they also worked to disrupt neoliberal constraints through activism that troubled the primacy of the nation-state and citizenship, refused to adhere to respectability politics, forwarded embodied identity and transnational belonging, and looked for liberation in community-not solely in legislative action. Both of and beyond neoliberalism, Dreamer rhetorics evidenced a rhetorical flexibility-a "both/and" sensibility-that allowed Dreamers to vacillate between neoliberal tropes and radical arguments. Ribero's theoretical model for this "both/and" approach derives from Gloria Anzaldúa's concept of nepantla, "the overlapping space between different perceptions and belief systems." In their ambivalent positionality, Dreamers were able to see through the limitations of neoliberal discourse and the promises of the nation-state, and to produce rhetoric that dared to imagine a world without borders, detention, or deportation. Each chapter in "Dreamer Nation" presents a different rhetorical situation within the US "crisis" of migration and the rhetoric that Dreamers used to respond to it. Organized chronologically, the chapters chronicle Dreamer activism during the Obama presidency, from the 2010 hunger strikes advocating for the DREAM Act to undocuqueer "artivism" in response to Trump's presidential campaign. The author draws not only on the methods and theories of rhetorical studies, but also on women of color feminisms, ethnic studies, critical theory, and queer theory. In this way, this book looks across disciplines to illustrates the rhetorical savvy of one of the most important US social movements of our time"--
The Lost Dreamer
Title | The Lost Dreamer PDF eBook |
Author | Lizz Huerta |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1250754860 |
A lush, immersive debut fantasy about a group of women whose way of life is threatened by a new king; a fierce celebration of community, sisterhood, and finding our power. Indir is a Dreamer, descended from a long line of seers; able to see beyond reality, she carries the rare gift of Dreaming truth. But when the beloved king dies, his son has no respect for this time-honored tradition. King Alcan wants an opportunity to bring the Dreamers to a permanent end—an opportunity Indir will give him if he discovers the two secrets she is struggling to keep. As violent change shakes Indir’s world to its core, she is forced to make an impossible choice: fight for her home or fight to survive. Saya is a seer, but not a Dreamer—she has never been formally trained. Her mother exploits her daughter’s gift, passing it off as her own as they travel from village to village, never staying in one place too long. Almost as if they’re running from something. Almost as if they’re being hunted. When Saya loses the necklace she’s worn since birth, she discovers that seeing isn’t her only gift—and begins to suspect that everything she knows about her life has been a carefully-constructed lie. As she comes to distrust the only family she’s ever known, Saya will do what she’s never done before, go where she’s never been, and risk it all in the search of answers. With a detailed, supernaturally-charged setting and topical themes of patriarchal power and female strength, Lizz Huerta's The Lost Dreamer brings an ancient world to life, mirroring the challenges of our modern one.
The Story of a Dreamer
Title | The Story of a Dreamer PDF eBook |
Author | Anilu Castro |
Publisher | Writers Republic LLC |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2019-10-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1646200276 |
The life and struggles of an immigrant girl born in Mexico. The story narrates why, how and when she and her family decided to emigrate to the United States. Her testimony relates how she survived a 3-day journey in the desert at age of 11 after failing for the first two attempts. What happened after she made it across, and how she overcame discrimination, depression, temptation and the separation of her family once in the American territory. A real-life story written to inspire and help others overcome their obstacles by seeing life from a different perspective.