Tortillas & Peanut Butter: True Confessions of an American Mom Turned Mexican Smuggler
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Book Overview
"Jaw-Droppingly Hilarious " Carol Romaine-Penn, Award Winning Writer
National Indie Excellence Award Finalist, Multicultural Nonfiction
An Amazon Top-10 Best Seller in Travel/Mexico, Humor, Biography/Memoir, Crimes & Criminals, Teen & Young Adult Biographies, Solo Travel, & Single Parenting
BookLife Prize, 2017
Tons of cultural tidbits tucked between the chuckles
Sample chapters at www.DrSonna.org
20% of profits go to the ACLU
Includes discussion questions for book clubs & classrooms
Covers topics for multicultural and diversity courses:
- The women's movement & the 60s cultural revolution
- Immigrant adjustment & adaptation
- Immigrant parenting
- Identity development in 1st generation children of immigrants
- Minority group issues (racism, sexism, prejudice)
- Values & attitudes in individualist vs. interdependent cultures
- Diverse customs & mores
- Diverse orientations to time (past/present/future)
- Diverse orientations to activity (being/becoming/doing)
- Diverse orientations to social relations (hierarchical/collateral/individual)
- Diverse views of nature (fate/destiny/genetics vs. personal mastery/self-efficacy)
- Cultural evolution & expatriate re-integration
- Culture shock
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