Research Catalog

Title

Unforgetting : a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas / Roberto Lovato.

Author

Lovato, Roberto

Publication

• New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xxvi, 325 pages; 24 cm

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 guerrilla 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

Alternative Title

Memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas

Subject

• Lovato, Roberto
• Lovato, Roberto > Political and social views
• 1979-1992
• Salvadoran Americans > Biography
• Children of immigrants > United States > Biography
• Fathers and sons > United States > Biography
• Immigrants > United States > Biography
• Salvadorans > United States > Biography
• Children of immigrants
• Diplomatic relations
• Emigration and immigration
• Fathers and sons
• Salvadoran Americans
• El Salvador > History > Civil War, 1979-1992
• El Salvador > Emigration and immigration > History
• United States > Foreign relations > El Salvador
• El Salvador > Foreign relations > United States
• El Salvador
• United States

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-325).

Contents

Prologue: Los Angeles, California -- Karnes City, Texas -- "Maras": the short, tragic, and completely made-up tale of the Marabunta -- San Francisco -- Ahuachapán, El Salvador -- Ciudad Merliot, El Salvador -- San Salvador -- Ahuachapán, El Salvador -- Ilopango, El Salvador -- San Salvador -- Ahuachapán, El Salvador -- Panchimalco, La Libertad, El Salvador -- San Franciso, California -- San Franciso, California -- Panchimalco & Rosario de Mora, El Salvador -- San Franciso, California -- Las Aradas, Chalatenango, El Salvador -- San Salvador -- San Salvador -- A Náhuat story of the Underworld: Izalco, El Salvador -- Guarjila - Corral de Piedra, Chalatenango -- San Salvador, El Salvador -- San Salvador -- San Salvador -- Mexico City -- San Salvador, El Salvador -- Los Angeles, California -- San Salvador -- Northridge, California -- San Francisco, California -- Ahuachapán -- Los Angeles, California -- Epilogue: "Todos" by Roque Dalton.

Call Number

JFE 21-2063

ISBN

• 9780062938473
• 0062938479

OCLC

1190581202

Author

Lovato, Roberto, author.

Title

Unforgetting : a memoir of family, migration, gangs, and revolution in the Americas / Roberto Lovato.

Publisher

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-325).

Chronological Term

1979-1992

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2063