{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-berlitz-tape-chicana-9780806137223","title":"Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like \u003ci\u003eMaster Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . We grew up listening to the language--usually in the kitchens of extended family--but we answered back mostly in English.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemetria Mart nez wields her trademark blend of humor and irony to give voice to her own \"tongue-tied generation\" in this notable series of essays, revealing her deeply personal views of the world. Mart nez breaks down the barriers between prayer and action, between the border denizen and the citizen of the world, and between patriarchal religion and the Divine Mother. She explores her identity as a woman who has within her the \"blood of the conquered and the conqueror,\" and who must daily contend with yet a third world--white America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartínez, Demetria:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemetria Martínez\u003c\/b\u003e is an author, activist, lecturer, and columnist. Her autobiographical essays, \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana\u003c\/i\u003e (Univ. of Oklahoma Press), won the 2006 International Latino Book Award in the category of best biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Albuquerque, NM, in 1960, where she now resides, Martínez earned her BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She teaches at the annual June writing workshop at the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston. Martínez writes a column for the independent progressive bi-weekly \u003ci\u003eThe National Catholic Reporter.\u003c\/i\u003e She is involved with Enlace Comunitario, an immigrants' rights group that works with Spanish-speaking survivors of domestic violence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51184789618962,"sku":"9780806137223","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4e7e738d-36eb-4402-a194-33e2cedfff72.jpg?v=1744574475","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/confessions-of-a-berlitz-tape-chicana-9780806137223","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}