Barack Obama
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Who Is Barack Obama?
Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States and the first Black commander-in-chief. He served two terms, from until The son of parents from Kenya and Kansas, Obama was born and raised in Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. After serving on the Illinois State Senate, he was elected a U.S. senator representing Illinois in In , Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He and his wife, Michelle Obama, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Barack Hussein Obama II
BORN: August 4,
BIRTHPLACE: Honolulu, Hawaii
SPOUSE: Michelle Obama (present)
CHILDREN: Malia and Sasha
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Leo
Early Life and Family
Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, , in Honolulu to Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham. He has six half-siblings, including half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng who he grew up with.
Obama’s Parents
Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama Sr. grew up herding goats in Africa and eventually earned a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue
Latino USA: A Cartoon History
Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions of Latino culture within the context of the English language. In this cartoon history of Latinos, Stavans seeks to combine the solemnity of so-called "serious literature" and history with the inherently theatrical and humorous nature of the comics. The range of topics includes Columbus, Manifest Destiny, the Alamo, William Carlos Williams, Desi Arnaz, West Side Story, Castro, Guevera, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Neruda, GarcíMáuez, the Mariel Boatlift, and Selena. Stavans represents Hispanic civilization as a fiesta of types, archetypes, and stereotypes. These "clichéigurines" include a toucan (displayed regularly in books by GarcíMáuez, Allende, and others), the beloved Latino comedian Cantinflas (known as "the Hispanic Charlie Chaplin"), a masked wrestler, and Captain America. These multiple, at times contradictory voices, each narrating various episodes of Latino history from a unique perspective, combine to create a carnivalesque rhythm, democratic and impartial. F
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The Restless Ilan Stavans
Outsider on the Inside
By Steven G. Kellman
With Kellman writing on Stavans we encounter the spirit of the pícaro—and squared. Think: Cantinflas, Quixote, Candide, Tristram Shandy, Zelig playfully disrupting normative patterns of thinking as they dance across the ever-moving time and space of a funhouse mirror. Kellman’s rigorous scholarship and mischievous pen sidestep hagiography to bring out the best of Stavans: his playfully slippery creative and intellectual poetics that poke, tease, and interrogate in ways that force us to rethink our own understanding of canons, language, culture, borders, belonging, history—even today’s hanging-by-a-thread democracy.
Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on Latino culture, Jewish culture, dictionaries, immigration, language, Spanglish, soccer, translation, travel, selfies, and God. The Restless Ilan Stavans surveys his interests, achievements, and flaws while he is still in the midst of an extraordinarily productive career. A native of Mexico who became a
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