Ukraine: Gangster State (tags)
Ukraine
Lê’s “Gangster” Not Just Another Immigration Memoir (tags)
Lê Thi Diem Thúy was brought to this country from Viet Nam by her father in 1978, when she was six, but her book “The Gangster We Are All Looking For,” honored this year by the San Diego Public Library and PBS as the 2011 “One Book, One San Diego,” isn’t your ordinary immigrant’s memoir. Presented as a novel — which allows Lê to tap her childhood for material without having to be bound by literal truth — “Gangster” is written in an almost poetic prose style, rich in nature imagery, characteristic of many Asian writers who learned English as a second language. Introducing, reading from and commenting on the book at the Public Library downtown on February 2, Lê gave a presentation touching on a lot of the issues raised in her book, including culture clashes, the role of the imagination and language as a force that can tear people apart as much as it can bring them together.
Ask a Chola on Kill Radio? (tags)
A summary of some posts about Ask a Chola, who has been "unmasked" as not only not being a chola (a widely assumed thing) but also not being Chicana!
Obama, the climate gangster, would have fixed it by now.
Desperate to shore up its flagging ranks, the military is quietly enlisting thousands of active gang members and shipping them to Iraq. Will a brutal murder finally wake up the Pentagon?
Wolf-o-Witz is a gangster (tags)
Wolf-o-Witz is a criminal gangster like Al Capone
Picture from the L.A. Not in our Name demo - Oct. 6, 2002