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Jimenez biography
Dr. Francisco Jimenez
Short Biography
Francisco Jiménez immigrated with his family to California from Tlaquepaque, Mexico, and as a child he worked in the fields of California. He is currently the Fay Boyle Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and director of the Ethnic Studies Program at Santa Clara University. Having received his B.A. from SCU and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University under a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, he has served on various professional boards and commissions, including the California Council for the Humanities, Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities (WASC), the California kommission on Teacher Credentialing, Santa Clara University Board of Trustees and the Far West Lab for Educational Research and Development. He has published and edited several books on Mexican and Mexican American literature, and his stories have been published in over 50 textbooks an
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
1997 autobiographical novel by Francisco Jiménez
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child is an autobiographical novel by Francisco Jiménez based in part on his journey from Mexico to the United States of America.[1][2] The book, narrated by the child's point of view, follows the life of young Francisco and his family as they move from one location to another to harvest crops in the United States. The book has three sequels, Breaking Through, Reaching Out, and the fourth in the series, Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University. The author translated the four novels into Spanish under the titles Cajas de cartón ("cardboard boxes"), Senderos fronterizos, Más allá de mí, and Pasos firmes, respectively, all published by Houghton Mifflin.
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The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
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Francisco Jiménez
Francisco Jiménez
Fiction | Short Story Collection | Middle Grade | Published in 1997
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In The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997), Francisco Jimenez describes his childhood in a migrant family as they follow the crop-picking circuit across South-Central California in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Written from the perspective of a child, Francisco’s 12 autobiographical stories illuminate the hardships of a life as an undocumented immigrant farmworker. Francisco endures backbreaking workdays, suff