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Kinky gazpacho : life, love & Spain / Lori L. Tharps.

by Tharps, Lori L.

Atria Books, 2008.

Tharps, Lori L.

Tharps, Lori L. -- Travel -- Spain.

Multicultural education -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.

Students, Black -- Spain -- Biography.

Women, Black -- Spain -- Biography.

American students -- Spain -- Biography.

Americans -- Spain -- Biography.

Spain -- Description and travel.

Spain -- Civilization.

Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Biography.

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1st Atria Books hardcover ed.

206 p. ; 23 cm.

1. International Day -- 2. Josephine Baker Was My Hero -- 3. Almost Africa -- 4. Quique -- 5. Black Like Me -- 6. Dreaming en Espanol -- 7. Sally -- 8. La Morena -- 9. If You Want My Body, and You Think I'm Sexy... -- 10. Rupert -- 11. La Reconquista -- 12. Guess Who's Coming to la Cena? -- 13. Love. Life. -- 14. How Do You Say "Aunt Jemima" in Spanish? -- 15. Black to the Beginning -- 16. Kinky Gazpacho.

"Magazine writer and editor Lori Tharps was born and raised in the comfortable but mostly White suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she was often the only person of color in her school and neighborhood. At an early age, Lori decided that her destiny would be discovered in Spain. She didn't know anyone from Spain, had never visited the country, and hardly spoke the language. Still, she never faltered in her plans to escape to the Iberian Peninsula." "Arriving in the country as an optimistic college student, however, Lori soon discovers Spain's particular attitude toward Blackness. She is chased down the street by the local schoolchildren and pointed at incessantly in public, and her innocent dreams of a place where race doesn't matter are shattered. The story would end there, except Lori meets and marries a Spaniard, and that's when her true Spanish adventure really begins." "Against the ancient backdrops of Cadiz and Andalucia, Lori starts the intricate yet amusing journey of rekindling her love affair with Spain and becoming a part of her new Spanish family. From a grandmother who spies on her to a grandfather who warmly welcomes her to town with a slew of racist jokes, the close-knit clan isn't exactly waiting with open arms. Kinky Gazpacho tells the story of the redeeming power of love and finding self in the most unexpected places."--BOOK JACKET.

Travel memoirs.

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