Voices of Diversity – serie
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You Can't Be Mexican
You Talk Just Like Me
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2005
275 kr
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Frank Mendez, a child of Mexican immigrants, begins his memoir with the story of his father's harrowing migration from Mexico to Texas in 1920, as he escaped from Zapata's guerrillos, and continues with his story of growing up in northeast Ohio. He recounts the Mendez family's experiences with the …
My Father Spoke Finglish at Work
Finnish Americans in Northeastern Ohio
Av The Kent State University Press, Fairburn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
410 kr
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In 1874, the first Finnish immigrants came to Northeast Ohio's Lake Erie port towns to work on the docks loading coal or unloading iron ore from ships sailing the Great Lakes or to work on the railroads. As with most immigrant groups, the Finns clustered in the same area, hoping to retain their …
Remembering Cleveland's Jewish Voices
Av Alan Bennett, Sally Wertheim
Häftad, 2011
273 kr
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A literary collection that gives voice to a significant Northeast Ohio immigrant community Since the early nineteenth century, Cleveland and the surrounding region have benefited from the emigration of European Jewry. A unique anthology of essays, short stories, and poems, Remembering: Cleveland's …
Integrated Boyhood
Coming of Age in White Cleveland
Inbunden, 2012
343 kr
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The memoir of a bookish black youth in mid-twentieth century ClevelandWhen Phillip M. Richards graduated from Yale in 1972, he had fulfilled his parents’ dreams. Like many other black Clevelanders of their generation, they had come up from the South in the late forties and moved from neighborhood …
