Robert Lopez

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Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and ErasureHardcover, 14 March 2023

Dispatches from Puerto Nowhere: An American Story of Assimilation and Erasure
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Print Length
280 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Date Published
14 Mar 2023
ISBN-10
1953387241
ISBN-13
9781953387240

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"That I was born Puerto Rican was happenstance, but that I have no connection to what it means is no accident. My grandparents made conscious decisions and so did my father as part of the first generation born here in the States. And none of it bothered me until recently, which is probably why I can't quite put my finger on any of this. I'm still grappling with what I've lost and how I can miss something I've never had."

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.

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.

Product Details

Author:
Robert Lopez
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
14 March 2023
Dimensions:
19.3 x 14.48 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
1953387241
ISBN-13:
9781953387240
Language:
English
Pages:
280
Weight:
408.23 gm

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