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Maria Hinojosa is an urban affairs correspondent for CNN. From 1990 to 1996, she was a correspondent for National Public Radio, where she continues to host the nationally broadcast Latino USA. In 1995, Hispanic Business Magazine named her one of the 100 most influential Latinos in the United visa mer States. She has won numerous awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Associated Press award, and the National Council of La Raza's 1999 Ruben Salazar Award. Hinojosa resides in New York City with her husband, her son Raul, and her daughter Yurema. visa färre

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This memoir took a while for me to get into, but I truly learned a lot of about the state of immigration in the US.
 
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bookwyrmm | 1 annan recension | Nov 13, 2020 |
A book describing Hinojosa's interviews with gang members in New York City. Kids like this often get labelled and shoved into a group, but their individual voices sing loud and clear in this book. It's hard to remember that these kids are only teenagers, because most of them have been through more than most of us will ever experience. Unfortunately it leaves them with a lot of anger, and even a sense of entitlement: I deserve to do whatever I need to do to have some money, because I've been through so much. And they couldn't see that the grief they feel about the death of one of their friends would happen to someone else if they continued their patterns of violence. On the one hand, old souls: on the other, spoiled brats.… (mer)
 
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