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About Campus, 2011
Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one focus... more Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one focused on issues of class and how his students benefited from the change.
Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States The Novel as Popular Culture Race in L... more Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States The Novel as Popular Culture Race in Latin America Latinos as a U.S. Race The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race Chapter One: Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukacs, and the "New World" of the Novel Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial Attitudes Chapter Two: Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale abou...
Teaching English in the Two Year College, May 1, 2008
Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community Colle... more Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community College. Our students self-identify with various nationalities, races, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Not only do students adopt diverse identity markers, but they also come to our classroom with variant skill levels. It is difficult to generalize about the students given the great diversity we encounter in our classrooms. Still, when designing a course, I must make general assumptions about the best texts to teach and the best methods for teaching these. A choice of a given text not only implies that it has something of value to teach the students, it also assumes that at least a majority of them will engage that text in order to learn as much as possible from it. In other words, when instructors choose a text we make assumptions about our students as well as the text. In this essay, I wish to discuss why and how I encourage Writing through Literature (ENG 102) students at LaGuardia Community College to reflect on issues of class and work through an analysis of the texts of Charles Bukowski.
*Carlos Hiraldo was born in New York City in 1971; both of his parents were Dominican immi grants... more *Carlos Hiraldo was born in New York City in 1971; both of his parents were Dominican immi grants who arrived in the United States in the late sixties. He received a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Boston College in 1993. After a year of high school teaching, he enrolled in a doctoral program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in English literature in 1999. He is currendy an English professor at La Guardia Community College in Queens, New York. His poet ry has been published in SNARK and the British journal Other Poetry.
Asian American Law Journal, 2008
... Carlos Hiraldot ... The article cites Mark Mather, deputy director of domestic programs for t... more ... Carlos Hiraldot ... The article cites Mark Mather, deputy director of domestic programs for the Population Reference Bureau, who describes the over-sixty population-overwhelmingly comprising Northern European Protestants, Southern European and Irish Catholics, Orthodox ...
Despite the great diversity of the LaGuardia student population, our classrooms have a predominan... more Despite the great diversity of the LaGuardia student population, our classrooms have a predominantly working-class ethos. Clearly, the meaning of the term "working class" is open to contention, its defi ni- tions expanding and shrinking according to the politics of the user and the exigencies of time and place. I do not wish to imply that our culturally diverse students
About Campus, 2011
Prof. Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one... more Prof. Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one focused on issues of class and how his students benefited from the change.
Asian American Law Journal, 2008
The article Arroz Frito with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the United States challenges ... more The article Arroz Frito with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the United States challenges the common portrayal of Asians and Latinos as separate and distinct racial and ethnic groups and the policies premised on that notion. It traces the history of Asians in Latin America and the eventual settlement of some Asian Latinos in the United States. Drawing on the personal experiences of Asian Latino students, the author argues that though they represent a small percentage of the United States population, Asian Latinos evidence the arbitrariness of racial and ethnic categorizations and suggests that this group represents a new type of cross-ethnic, communal bonding that needs to be addressed by scholars and activists.
Teaching English in The Two-year College, 2008
Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community Colle... more Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community College. Our students self-identify with various nationalities, races, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Not only do students adopt diverse identity markers, but they also come to our classroom with variant skill levels. It is difficult to generalize about the students given the great diversity we encounter in our classrooms. Still, when designing a course, I must make general assumptions about the best texts to teach and the best methods for teaching these. A choice of a given text not only implies that it has something of value to teach the students, it also assumes that at least a majority of them will engage that text in order to learn as much as possible from it. In other words, when instructors choose a text we make assumptions about our students as well as the text. In this essay, I wish to discuss why and how I encourage Writing through Literature (ENG 102) students at LaGuardia Community College to reflect on issues of class and work through an analysis of the texts of Charles Bukowski.
Book Reviews by Carlos Hiraldo
Books by Carlos Hiraldo
In his first collection, Carlos Hiraldo knocks down the bland edifice of contemporary poetry and ... more In his first collection, Carlos Hiraldo knocks down the bland edifice of contemporary poetry and replaces it with real poems that resound and shock and illuminate. As Machu Picchu grows from the mountain, gathers itself stone by stone and bursts into the sky, so these poems take the stuff of life and raise up a new, vibrant city built on love, poverty, racism, sweetness, violence and all the manifold experiences of a son of immigrants grappling with the urban environment. Uniquely American yet universal, both personal and collective, Machu Picchu Me dramatizes what other works merely disclose—that individual experience forms the shared collective of humanity.
Using the novel as a primary tool, the book traces broad patterns in how the U.S. and Latin Amer... more Using the novel as a primary tool, the book traces broad patterns in how the U.S. and Latin American literary traditions have constructed black identity, and it examines how these traditions have standardized for their regions the accepted types of relations among characters of different races.
About Campus, 2011
Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one focus... more Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one focused on issues of class and how his students benefited from the change.
Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States The Novel as Popular Culture Race in L... more Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States The Novel as Popular Culture Race in Latin America Latinos as a U.S. Race The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race Chapter One: Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukacs, and the "New World" of the Novel Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial Attitudes Chapter Two: Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale abou...
Teaching English in the Two Year College, May 1, 2008
Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community Colle... more Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community College. Our students self-identify with various nationalities, races, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Not only do students adopt diverse identity markers, but they also come to our classroom with variant skill levels. It is difficult to generalize about the students given the great diversity we encounter in our classrooms. Still, when designing a course, I must make general assumptions about the best texts to teach and the best methods for teaching these. A choice of a given text not only implies that it has something of value to teach the students, it also assumes that at least a majority of them will engage that text in order to learn as much as possible from it. In other words, when instructors choose a text we make assumptions about our students as well as the text. In this essay, I wish to discuss why and how I encourage Writing through Literature (ENG 102) students at LaGuardia Community College to reflect on issues of class and work through an analysis of the texts of Charles Bukowski.
*Carlos Hiraldo was born in New York City in 1971; both of his parents were Dominican immi grants... more *Carlos Hiraldo was born in New York City in 1971; both of his parents were Dominican immi grants who arrived in the United States in the late sixties. He received a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Boston College in 1993. After a year of high school teaching, he enrolled in a doctoral program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his Ph.D. in English literature in 1999. He is currendy an English professor at La Guardia Community College in Queens, New York. His poet ry has been published in SNARK and the British journal Other Poetry.
Asian American Law Journal, 2008
... Carlos Hiraldot ... The article cites Mark Mather, deputy director of domestic programs for t... more ... Carlos Hiraldot ... The article cites Mark Mather, deputy director of domestic programs for the Population Reference Bureau, who describes the over-sixty population-overwhelmingly comprising Northern European Protestants, Southern European and Irish Catholics, Orthodox ...
Despite the great diversity of the LaGuardia student population, our classrooms have a predominan... more Despite the great diversity of the LaGuardia student population, our classrooms have a predominantly working-class ethos. Clearly, the meaning of the term "working class" is open to contention, its defi ni- tions expanding and shrinking according to the politics of the user and the exigencies of time and place. I do not wish to imply that our culturally diverse students
About Campus, 2011
Prof. Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one... more Prof. Carlos Hiraldo shares his story of shifting from a pedagogy based on racial identity to one focused on issues of class and how his students benefited from the change.
Asian American Law Journal, 2008
The article Arroz Frito with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the United States challenges ... more The article Arroz Frito with Salsa: Asian Latinos and the Future of the United States challenges the common portrayal of Asians and Latinos as separate and distinct racial and ethnic groups and the policies premised on that notion. It traces the history of Asians in Latin America and the eventual settlement of some Asian Latinos in the United States. Drawing on the personal experiences of Asian Latino students, the author argues that though they represent a small percentage of the United States population, Asian Latinos evidence the arbitrariness of racial and ethnic categorizations and suggests that this group represents a new type of cross-ethnic, communal bonding that needs to be addressed by scholars and activists.
Teaching English in The Two-year College, 2008
Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community Colle... more Faculty members take pride in the great diversity of students attending LaGuardia Community College. Our students self-identify with various nationalities, races, religions, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Not only do students adopt diverse identity markers, but they also come to our classroom with variant skill levels. It is difficult to generalize about the students given the great diversity we encounter in our classrooms. Still, when designing a course, I must make general assumptions about the best texts to teach and the best methods for teaching these. A choice of a given text not only implies that it has something of value to teach the students, it also assumes that at least a majority of them will engage that text in order to learn as much as possible from it. In other words, when instructors choose a text we make assumptions about our students as well as the text. In this essay, I wish to discuss why and how I encourage Writing through Literature (ENG 102) students at LaGuardia Community College to reflect on issues of class and work through an analysis of the texts of Charles Bukowski.
In his first collection, Carlos Hiraldo knocks down the bland edifice of contemporary poetry and ... more In his first collection, Carlos Hiraldo knocks down the bland edifice of contemporary poetry and replaces it with real poems that resound and shock and illuminate. As Machu Picchu grows from the mountain, gathers itself stone by stone and bursts into the sky, so these poems take the stuff of life and raise up a new, vibrant city built on love, poverty, racism, sweetness, violence and all the manifold experiences of a son of immigrants grappling with the urban environment. Uniquely American yet universal, both personal and collective, Machu Picchu Me dramatizes what other works merely disclose—that individual experience forms the shared collective of humanity.
Using the novel as a primary tool, the book traces broad patterns in how the U.S. and Latin Amer... more Using the novel as a primary tool, the book traces broad patterns in how the U.S. and Latin American literary traditions have constructed black identity, and it examines how these traditions have standardized for their regions the accepted types of relations among characters of different races.