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Author Lopez, Robert, 1971- author.

Title Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere : an American story of assimilation and erasure / [Robert Lopez].

Publication Info. Columbus, Ohio : TwoDollarRadio, [2023]
©2023

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B LOPEZ    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  920 LOP    DUE 04-03-24
Description 261, 10 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Note Cover title.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "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."-- Back cover.
"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.
Subject Lopez, Sixto, 1904-1987.
Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- New York (State) -- New York.
Tennis players -- New York (State) -- New York.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Grandfathers -- Biography.
Grandfathers. (OCoLC)fst00946347
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation. (OCoLC)fst00967721
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Puerto Ricans. (OCoLC)fst01083707
Tennis players. (OCoLC)fst01147686
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn. (OCoLC)fst01312516
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 9781953387240 (hardcover)
1953387241 (hardcover)
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