Burro Genius
A Memoir
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 20, 2005
Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers.
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- Who it’s for
- A vivid memoir of childhood hurt, learning difference, and a writer’s stubbornly held ambition.
- Themes
- Learning disability, Latino identity and schooling, Perseverance
- Genres
- Hispanic & Latino Biography, Personal Memoirs, Learning Disabilities
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Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak of these incidents. When he was through, to his great disbelief he received a standing ovation. Many in the audience could not contain their own tears. So begins the passionate, touching memoir of Victor Villaseñor.
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Highly gifted and imaginative as a child, Villaseñor coped with an untreated learning disability (he was finally diagnosed, at the age of forty-four, with extreme dyslexia) and the frustration of growing up Latino in an English-only American school in the 1940s. Despite teachers who beat him because he could not speak English, Villaseñor clung to his dream of one day becoming a writer. He is now considered one of the premier writers of our time.
Memory, Voice, and School
A vivid memoir of childhood hurt, learning difference, and a writer’s stubbornly held ambition.
Come here for
- A candid reckoning with humiliation and abuse in the classroom
- Growing up Latino in an English-only school, and holding to a writing dream
Expect
- Childhood memories told with passion and emotional force
- A personal lens on dyslexia, language, and teachers’ power
Where it sits
| Hispanic & Latino Biography | 83% |
|---|---|
| Learning Disabilities | 49% |
| Personal Memoirs | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Cultural Heritage Lives
- Hispanic & Latino Biography
- Lives in History
- Political Lives
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- Personal Memoirs
- Indigenous Lives
- Multicultural Education
- Learning Disabilities
- Authors
- Victor Villasenor
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 20, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Learning disability · Latino identity and schooling · Perseverance
- Reading lane
- Cultural Heritage Lives