Sunday, October 9, 2011
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Los Links del Spicaro
- Hinchas de Poesia
- Little Berlin Zine Library
- Barnard Zine Collection
- Save the Words
- Lux and Ivy's List
- Challengers of the Unknown
- Yago S. Cura E-Portfolio
- James Foley's blog, A World of Troubles
- NY Times Soccer Blog
- Eloisa Cartonera
- Clarin's On-Line History of Sarmiento
- On-Line Visual Literacy Project
- Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
- New York Magazine's: Harlem: A History in Pictures
- 2007-2008 ALA Spectrum Scholars Flickr Page
- Lowrider Librarian
- Jan Chipchase's Blog: Future Perfect
- Clarin: Argentine Newspaper
- UNESCO: The Open Veins of McWorld
- Global Exchange: Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the IMF
- Lungfull! Magazine
- Schaffer Library of Drug Policy: Charts and Graphs about the Drug War
- National Soccer Hall of Fame: World Cup History
- History Magazine: Library of Alexandria
- Friends With You
- Prefuse 73
- Studio Museum Harlem
- U.S. Census Bureau: Statistics on Latinos
- U.S. Census Bureau: Historic Poverty Tables, 1959-2006
Spicaresque
- Spicaro
- The title of this web blog is a neologism created by Yago S. Cura: a compound of the derogatory word for Latinos, "spic," and the Spanish literary tradition, "Picaresque," from which the modern novel descends. Yago's poetry has appeared in Lungfull!, Borderlands, COMBO, LIT, U.S. Latino Review, PALABRA, Exquisite Corpse, Field, Slope, and The New Orleans Review. Yago's reviews have appeared in The St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter. In 2008, Yago was one of many narrators of the "Human Resources" episode of National Public Radio's "This American Life" that highlighted the NYC/DOE's gulag for alleged-against teachers: the Rubberroom. Yago's poetry manuscript, Spicaresque, was a finalist in the National Poetry Series and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize.
Porque are you afraid de Spanglish?
"Nothing seems to inflame advocates of our nation's Anglo-Saxon traditions so much as this issue of language. Since a people's culture--it's music, literature, and customs--is invevitably expressed through its language, the growth of 'foreign' language use somehow implied the growth of foreign cultures. Since 1990, for instance, more than 32 million American spoke English as a second language, a phenomenal one-third increase over 1980, and for more than half of those 32 million, Spanish was the primary tongue"
--From "Harvest of Empire" by Juan Gonzalez, 2000, pg xiii
--From "Harvest of Empire" by Juan Gonzalez, 2000, pg xiii
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