Francisco Jiménez writes of his childhood growing up in an immigrant Mexican family.
Performance
At the age of 14, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra.
Performance And maybe a few shifts as junior lunchtime dishwasher at Abuela's restaurant.
When a derelict vacant lot is gradually transformed into a community garden in inner city Cleveland, the people of this community find their differences are less apparent and their isolation dissolved. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for 20 hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona.
Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany.
He’s the author of
Story
There they confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression.
1 audiobook of your choice.
Beautifully and authentically rendered by actor and playwright Adrian Vargas, these twelve stories tell of the almost unendurable journey most migrant campesinos undertake to find the "American Dream." There they confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression.
For Arturo, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence.