Sonia sotomayor autobiography
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In seminar on Sonia Sotomayor, students reflect on their own lives
Professor Dámaris Otero-Torres lectures on Sonia Sotomayor in New Brunswick while students in Newark participate though a video portal.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s memoir has been hailed as an eloquent, honest, and compelling konto of an epic life that began in a tough stadsdel i new york neighborhood and led to the nation’s highest court.
BOOK blogThe book—My Beloved World—has also had a powerful impact on a group of Rutgers undergraduates who read the autobiography and wrote their own memoirs as part of a new seminar offered bygd the Department of Spanish and Portuguese in the School of Arts and Sciences.
“I could see a lot of parallels between how Justice Sotomayor grew up, and my own upbringing,” says Paola Pinzon, a senior from Madison. “When she talks about going to Princeton, and how it felt to be in a mostly white environment, that’s how I felt in my own high school.”
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Poor kid makes good. It&#;s an old story&#;maybe the quintessential story of America. My Beloved World, the new memoir by Sonia Sotomayor, is a charming addition to the genre. What gives it unusual interest is that the author is a Supreme Court justice of Puerto Rican descent who (by her own admission) has benefited from racial preferences&#;and it is published just as Sotomayor and her fellow justices are weighing a new constitutional challenge to racial preferences in college admissions in Fisher v. University of Texas. My Beloved World is interesting both for what it says and what it does not say about race relations in America today.
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In classic fashion for a Horatio Alger story, Sotomayor begins her memoir with a gripping incident highlighting the difficulties she faced. Her parents are fighting&#;as usual&#;but this time her mother is raging at her father because his alcoholism now makes him tremble so badly that he cannot administer the insulin shot that the diabet
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