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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1982
Language
English
Description
Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just fifty words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a "minority student" who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation-from his past, his parents, his culture-and so...
5) I'm new here
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Describes a young Salvadoran girl's experience integrating into an American school.
Publisher
High Valley Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Walter Littlemoon, a Lakota author and public speaker, attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota 60 years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950 was to 'kill the Indian and save the man.' The children were not allowed to speak their language or express their culture or Native identity in any way. This is the story of how Littlemoon confronted his past so that he could renew himself and his community"--Container.