Unforgetting : a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas

The Resource Unforgetting : a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas

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Unforgetting : a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas

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a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas

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Roberto Lovato

Language

eng

Summary

A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerrilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families
The child of Salvadoran immigrants, Roberto Lovato grew up in 1970s and 80s San Francisco as Salvadoran gangs were forming in California. In his teens, he lost friends to the escalating violence, and survived acts of brutality himself. As a human rights advocate in wartime El Salvador, he joined the guerilla movement against the U.S.-backed, fascist military government. Lovato channeled his own pain into activism and journalism, focusing on how trauma affects individual lives and societies. Here he interweaves his family's history with first-hand reportage on gang life, state violence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. -- adapted from jacket

Biography type

autobiography

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NjBwBT

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

Target audience

adult

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