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03892aam a2200421 i 4500 001 F11A714C471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190717s2019 txu 000 0ceng c 010 $a 2019029044 020 $a 1558858792 020 $a 9781558858794 035 $a (OCoLC)1112138839 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCL $d YDX $d PUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a cl----- $a s------ $a n-us--- $a cl----- 050 00 $a CT275 P769 A3 2019 100 1 $a Poyo, Gerald Eugene, $d 1950- $e author. 245 12 $a A Latino memoir : $b exploring family, identity and the common good / $c Gerald Poyo. 264 1 $a Houston, Texas : $b Arte PuÌblico Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 335 pages ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a Bygone generations -- Struggled in radical ways -- A sense of ambiguity -- Better forgotten -- Aligning north -- Americanization -- Of economic necessity -- An unexpected turn -- Corporate foot soldiers -- Children fuse cultures easily -- The world isn't fair -- Fixing the world -- Turmoil of ethnic politics -- Pressure cooker -- Pilgrimage -- Inscribing a maligned people -- No longer home -- The worst of times -- Bread, spirit and community -- We shared a sign of peace. 520 $a "In a bumpy, anxiety-producing plane ride across the Straits of Florida to Cuba in 1979, graduate student Gerald Poyo knew his life would either end that day in the World War II-era prop airplane or change forever. He survived the trip, and his ten-day visit solidified his academic research and confirmed his career as a history professor. In this wide-ranging examination of his relatives' migrations in the Western Hemisphere -- the Americas -- over five generations, Poyo uses his training as a historian to unearth his family's stories. Beginning with his great-great grandfather's flight from Cuba to Key West in 1869, this is also about the loss of a beloved homeland. His father was Cuban; his mother was from Flint, Michigan. Poyo himself was six months old when his parents took him to BogotaÌ, Colombia. He celebrated his eighth birthday in New Jersey and his tenth in Venezuela. He was 12 when he landed in Buenos Aires, where he spent his formative years before returning to the United States for college. 'My heart belonged to the south, but somehow I knew I could not escape the north,' he writes. Transnationalism shaped his life and identity. Divided into two parts, the first section traces his parents and ancestors as he links their stories to impersonal movements in the world -- Spanish colonialism, Cuban nationalism, United States expansionism -- that influenced their lives. The second half explores how exile, migration and growing up a 'hemispheric American, a borderless American' impacted his own development and stimulated questions about poverty, religion and relations between Latin America and the United States. Ultimately, this thought-provoking memoir unveils the universal desire for a safe, stable life for one's family"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-335). 600 10 $a Poyo, Gerald Eugene, $d 1950- 600 10 $a Poyo, Gerald Eugene, $d 1950- $x Family. 600 30 $a Poyo (Family). 600 10 $a Poyo, Gerald Eugene, $d 1950- $x Travel $z America. 650 0 $a Hispanic Americans $v Biography. 650 0 $a Hispanic American families. 650 0 $a Transnationalism. 651 0 $a United States $x Social aspects. $x Social aspects. 651 0 $a Latin America $x Social aspects. $x Social aspects. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Poyo, Gerald Eugene, 1950- $t A Latino memoir. $d Houston, Texas : Arte PuI̹blico Press, [2019] $z 9781518505676 $w (DLC) 2019029045 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023238.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F11A714C471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search