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Title: Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez ISBN: 0553272934 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.53
Rating: 5
Summary: A POIGNANT TRANSFORMATION
Comment: Richard Rodriguez shares how education transformed his life forever in this searing, poignant, candid autobiography. He became a confident, capable, knowledgable, strong individual who could speak, write, debate, communicate with others beyond the comfort zone of his immediate family. He ultimately amazed elite scholars with his brilliance, but he writes that he lost the close, warm loving affinity with his family, his roots. He is painfully candid. His courageous stance on both bi-lingual and affirmative action programs may make some readers uncomfortable, but his reasoning is sound.Read the book. It is an honest attempt to portray one man's journey from illiteracy. It is the american dream gained, and a detailed passionate account of the price one man paid to achieve it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must-read for teachers of immigrant and minority students
Comment: I just finished reading Hunger of Memory as an assignment for a Language and Literacy class I'm taking in my teacher training program. I recommend this book to all teachers or to people like myself who are planning to be teachers. Rodriguez does a outstanding job of capturing the feelings of confusion and separation one feels when learning English. I liked how Rodriguez corelates language with intimacy. He talks a lot about how Spanish was for him a language of intimacy and family. When he learned English in school, however, he lost a lot of that intimacy in the home when he began to lose his language. One particularly sad part was when his grandmother died and he wasn't able to speak to her or say goodbye beforehand because his Spanish was so limited and his grandmother spoke only Spanish. Towards the end of the book, Rodriguez exhibits a lot of honesty and courage in writing about his feelings on affirmative action. As a result of assimilation and studying in England, Rodriguez no longer felt like he could be an effective role model for minority students. However, because he was a Mexican-American with a Phd in Renaissance Literature and because he was a "minority professor", he was expected by Berkley administrators (and students) to be such a role model. When some hispanic students ask him to teach a minority literature class at a community center, he declines. As a result, they treat him like a sell-out. All in all, I admire how Rodriguez is not afraid to take stances on issues like affirmative action and bilingual education that go against what is expected, considering his race. One would expect him to be in support of both programs, but he is not. Though I do not agree on his stances on these issues, I truly admire his ability to be true to his convictions in spite of being called a sell-out.
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful and deeply moving.
Comment: Vance Packard, in researching his book "The Status Seekers," found that upward mobility in the United States was much more difficult than Americans would like to believe, and that those who were successful made it largely by cutting ties to their roots. Although framed in the context of ethnicity--Richard Rodriguez' book makes that same point. Moving up from working class to upper middle class promised success and acceptance and self-respect, but getting there was a little like edging out onto the ice, feeling inadequate and fearful that at any moment he might fall through. This book will resonate with anyone--immigrant or not, minority or not--who has made such a journey. Rodriguez scathingly criticizes affirmative action and bi-lingual education programs, correctly identifying the first as promoting socially crippling labels--"disadvantaged minority"--and the second as an obstacle to what he sees as the keys to success in America--a solid education and learning to speak and write English well. Rodriguez discovers early on what many of those with romantic notions about their ethnic or racial heritage eventually come to realize--that he is an American. But in the sadness he feels at the growing distance between himself and his parents, he fails--and several previous reviewers of this book fail--to note one very important thing. Upward mobility occurs incrementally, not in one leap. Rodriguez was put in a position to get that excellent education, to learn to speak unaccented English, and to become a respected author and scholar by parents who left Mexico and the little homogeneous Catholic towns and moved to the United States. In short, by parents who had cut the ties to their own roots.
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Title: Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez ISBN: 0670030430 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 28 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez ISBN: 0140096221 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston ISBN: 0679721886 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Foundations of American Education (3rd Edition) by Arlene Metha, K. Forbis Jordan, L. Dean Webb ISBN: 0139238719 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 22 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $68.00 |
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Title: Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture by Douglas Rushkoff ISBN: 0345397746 Publisher: Ballantine Books (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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