It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire by Marie Theresa Hernández
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Growing up as the daughter of a funeral director in Fort Bend County, Texas, Marie Theresa Hernández was a frequent visitor to the San Isidro Cemetery, a burial place for Latino workers at the Imperial Sugar Company, based in nearby Sugar Land. During these years she acquired from her father and mother a sense of what it was like to live as an ethnic minority in Jim Crow Texas. Therefore, returning to the cemetery as an ethnographer offered Hernández a welcome opportunity to begin piecing together a narrative of the lives and struggles of the Mexican American community that formed her...
Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire by Marie Theresa Hernández is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.
This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire aloud.
Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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