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Hunger of Memory
- Author
- Richard Rodriguez
- Narrator
- Jonathan Davis
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 26 June 2018
- Run Time
- 6 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 describes the high price of "making it" in middle-class America.
Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language . . . and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
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Details
- Author
- Richard Rodriguez
- Narrator
- Jonathan Davis
- Duration
- 6 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 June 2018
- ISBN
- 9781541488755
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Ethnic studies, Memoirs, Society and culture: general, Education, Educational strategies and policy
Synopsis
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 describes the high price of "making it" in middle-class America.Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language . . . and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
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