Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant's Journey -- Emma Violand-Sánchez

Emma Violand-S?nchez knew little English when she arrived in Virginia from Bolivia in the summer of 1961 as a high school senior. In the decades that followed, she would lose a husband in Vietnam, raise two children as a single mother, and become a transformative figure in American public education and in service to immigrants and refugees, advocating for bilingual education and expanding opportunities for immigrant students and their families.</p>Part testament to the power of suffering and faith and to the challenges women face across the world, Dreams and Shadows</em> is also a meditation on politics, class, the immigrant experience, acculturation as a lifelong process, and the importance of maintaining bicultural identity against the myth of the </p>American "melting pot." On a deeper level, it is also the story of a life lived in service-and about the ways that suffering and joy are contained each within the other, binding us all together across cultures and boundaries.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Emma Violand-S?nchez<br><b>Publisher:</b> Koehler Books<br><b>Published:</b> 03/20/2025<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.09lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9798888246467<p></p>