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02863aam a2200349 i 4500 001 147A2B72933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231205010040 008 230328t20232023ohua b 000 0beng d 020 $a 1953387241 020 $a 9781953387240 035 $a (OCoLC)1374130124 040 $a IMD $b eng $e rda $c IMD $d YDX $d BDX $d GK8 $d UOK $d DPL $d UAP $d OCLCF $d YDX $d VP@ $d TOH $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny 050 4 $a F128.9 P85 L67 2023 100 1 $a Lopez, Robert, $d 1971- $e author. 245 10 $a Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere : $b an American story of assimilation and erasure / $c [Robert Lopez]. 264 1 $a Columbus, Ohio : $b TwoDollarRadio, $c [2023] 300 $a 261 pages : $b illustration ; $c 20 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Robert Lopez's grandfather Sixto was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in 1904, immigrating to the United States in the 1920s, where he lived in a racially proportioned apartment complex in East New York, Brooklyn, until his death in 1987. The family's efforts to assimilate within their new homeland led to the near complete erasure of their heritage, culture, and language within two generations. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brookly's diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from Sixto's remembered traits, Robert Lopez paints a haunting, compassionate, and tremendously moving portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and re-claim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure."-- $c Back cover. 520 $a "Little is known of Sixto--he may have been a longshoreman, a painter, or a boxer, but was most likely a longshoreman--or why he originally decided to leave Puerto Rico, other than that he was a meticulously slow eater who played the standup keyboard and guitar, and enjoyed watching baseball. Through family recollection, the constant banter volleyed across nets within Brooklyn's diverse tennis community, as well as an imagined fabulist history drawn from Sixto's remembered traits, in Dispatches From Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure, Robert Lopez paints a compassionate portrait of family that attempts to bridge the past to the present, and re-claim a heritage threatened by assimilation and erasure."--From amazon. 600 10 $a Lopez, Sixto, $d 1904-1987. 650 0 $a Puerto Ricans $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 650 0 $a Immigrants $x Cultural assimilation $z New York. $z New York. 650 0 $a Tennis players $z New York. $z New York. 651 0 $a Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Grandfathers $v Biography. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043558.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=147A2B72933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search