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What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?

By Geoffrey Galt Harpham

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About the book

Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, "Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?" The question, said Ramirez, changed his life because "it was the first time anyone had asked me that." Realizing that his opinion had val...Show more

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9780226480817

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The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2017

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What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?

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Paperback

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