{"product_id":"dreams-and-shadows-an-immigrants-journey-paperback","title":"Dreams and Shadows: An Immigrant's Journey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmma Violand-Sánchez 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.\u003c\/p\u003ePart testament to the power of suffering and faith and to the challenges women face across the world, Dreams and Shadows 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 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51293222600927,"sku":"9798888246467","price":22.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/z2ldBetdaN9798888246467.webp?v=1788054730","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/dreams-and-shadows-an-immigrants-journey-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}