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SUMMARY:Ana Raquel Minian
DESCRIPTION:Ana Raquel Minian\nWednesday\, June 20\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nUndocumented Lives The Untold Story of Mexican Migration \nfrom Harvard University Press \n\nIn the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures\, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places\, and yet neither country made them feel welcome. \nAna Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters\, songs\, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration\, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S.\, they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times\, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically\, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows\, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them\, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold. \nUndocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States. \nAna Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. \n\nRelated Links: \n\nRead Ana Raquel Minian’s essay in the Washington Post on the ways in which Mexico itself has served as a “wall” keeping Central American migrants from reaching the United States\nRead Minian’s Los Angeles Times essay arguing that tying DACA to border security ignores the process of “circular migration”: increased border security is whythere are so many Dreamers\nRead a Vox interview with Minian on how Donald Trump’s “sh*thole” comment should be considered in relation to America’s problematic history with eugenics\nWatch Minian discuss DACA on Univision\nAt the Atlantic\, read Minian’s argument that a U.S.–Mexico border wall could have the unintended effect of discouraging Mexicans from leaving the U.S.\nAt Univision\, read about the oral histories that Minian collected while researching Undocumented Lives\nWatch a C-SPAN interview with Minian about 20th century Mexican migration to the United States
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jana Casale
DESCRIPTION:Jana Casale discusses her new novel\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky. \nPraise for The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \n“Casale writes with both energy and humor.  She is an exquisite storyteller.  In creating Leda and her story\, Casale magically weaves together the tiny moments in life\, allowing them to gain momentum and build off each other\, until they culminate into an extraordinary tale that has spunk and charm.” —Weike Wang\, author of Chemistry \n“As the perfect title suggests\, the books we don’t read can shape us just as much as the ones we do. However\, unlike our titular heroine and her copy of Problems of Knowledge and Freedom\, I guarantee you’ll fly through this one. It’s a rare gem of a debut–funny\, heartbreaking\, and genuinely profound.”--Ed Park\, author of Personal Days \n“How do you account for a life? In Jana Casale’s poignant debut\, the answer has as much to do with the things her protagonist\, Leda – college student\, wife\, writer\, temporary Orca expert\, mother – wanted to do and didn’t\, as what she actually lives. A funny\, tender and touching illumination of the extraordinary beauty contained in a seemingly everyday life. I can’t stop thinking about this book.”  —Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nAbout The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \nWe first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon\, notable only for the fact that it’s the single occasion in her life when she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading American Power and the New Mandarins.  Leda hopes that\, by engaging him\, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting\, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda’s left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never—ever—reads it. \nAs the days\, years\, and decades of the rest of her life unfold\, we see all of the things Leda does instead\, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment\, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter\, to attempting (and nearly failing) to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments\, we see the work—both visible and invisible—of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning. Over the course of her experiences Leda comes to the universal revelation that the best-laid-plans are not always the path to utter fulfillment and contentment\, and in reality there might be no such thing. Lively and disarmingly honest\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a remarkable literary feat—bracingly funny\, sometimes heartbreaking\, and truly feminist in its insistence that the story it tells is an essential one.
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LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
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