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At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Campos's experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or fútbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book's central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant's experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love—resilient love—for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country.
The author's aim is to establish an open and earnest philosophical dialogue with critical readers interested in the problems surrounding immigration in the U.S. today. He writes as an American philosopher—in the continental sense of North, Central, and South America—whose reflections provide an accessible and provocative angle for the development of insight into the experiences of immigrants in the United States. Thus he brings philosophical reflection drawn from experience, in the broad American tradition, to bear on current issues—on the problems of people and not of philosophers, as John Dewey might put it.
Contents
Acknowledgments
01. Philosophical Prelude: Playfulness, Love, and Personal Growth
02. An Inclination to Listen
03. Southern Saunters
04. Road Trips: The Mason-Dixon Line and Beyond
05. Americans on the Road: Kerouac, Anderson, and Guevara
06. Down on the Bayou
07. Taking the Road Less Traveled By
08. Tico and Okie Migrants in American Literature
09. Sacramental Awakenings in the South
10. Philosophies of the Heart in American Literature
11. Playing Fútbol in la Yunai
12. Churchgoing
13. Finding a Loving Home among Friends
15. Dancing Out of the Labyrinth: From Solitude to Communion
15. Philosophical Postlude: Resilient Loving
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