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Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. X, No. 2, Wku Latin American Studies May 1988

Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. X, No. 2, Wku Latin American Studies

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies program regarding science, politics and economic advances in Latin America as well as cooperative projects between WKU and universities across Latin America. The newsletter is written in both English and Spanish.

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You Can't Go Home Again: James Baldwin And The South, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 1988

You Can't Go Home Again: James Baldwin And The South, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

James Baldwin, like innumerable other Black artists, has found that in his efforts to express the plight of the Black man in America, he has been forced to deal over and over again with that inescapable dilemma of the Black American - the lack of sense of a positive self-identity. Time after time in his writings he has shown an awareness of the fact that identity contains, as Erik Erikson so accurately indicates, "a complementarity of past and future both in the individual and in society." Baldwin wrote in "Many Thousands Gone," "We cannot escape our origins, however hard we …

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"Learn It To The Younguns": Passing On Folk Wisdom, Daryl Cumber Dance Jan 1988

"Learn It To The Younguns": Passing On Folk Wisdom, Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

This is the book I had been planning to write for the past fifteen years, it was inevitable that if I kept procrastinating, someone would more expeditiously respond to the obvious void. Finally H. Nigel Thomas has provided the kind of exploration and explication of the use, influence, and impact of Black folklore on literature that I perceived was so much needed. Despite the numerous published commentaries on the influence of Afro-American folklore on individual works and specific authors, and the occasional consideration of its influence on a particular genre or a limited period (such as Keith Byerman's focus on …

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Research Issues And Problems In United States Spanish : Latin American And Southwestern Varieties, The University Of Texas-Pan American At Brownsville. Rio Grande Series In Language And Linguistics Jan 1988

Research Issues And Problems In United States Spanish : Latin American And Southwestern Varieties, The University Of Texas-Pan American At Brownsville. Rio Grande Series In Language And Linguistics

Rio Grande Research Group for Language and Linguistics Series

The Future of Spanish in the United States / Gary D. Keller -- Current population survey research and household spanish maintenance among Mexican Americans / Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez -- Chicano communities: The research we still need - Fernando Penalosa -- Implications of research on dialects of Mexican American Spanish for linguistic theory / Benji Wald -- The social and linguistic foundations of Chicano Calo: Trends for future research / Rogelio Reyes -- A review examining research on the impact of bilingual education programs on student achievement / Manuel Medrano -- Future directions for research on speech attitudes / Rosa Fernandez -- …

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Migration For Secondary Education In The Netherlands Antilles, Elva Lee Smith Jan 1988