On Madison Street, a Chicago street that owns her children, a boy hides from the police. Once Junior is placed in a foster home, he doesn't have to steal to survive. Yet he finds himself hiding, searching for his identity.

This book is about a person's brain and how it thinks. Consider the captain of a battleship in the ocean dropping anchor without knowing how deep the water is because no one knows the deepest parts of the ocean. It is the same with a person's heart. What makes a man love and not love? Or is there a compromise? People go to psychiatrists to search for answers about themselves. But then there's the man who doesn't want to know the truth. The one thing the man knows is that he has a Creator greater than himself. He can identify with that. But he can't identify to the world who or what he is....

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension, their disciplines. Brown demonstrates that there is little agreement in the reported teaching canons in English and Spanish. Analyzing twentieth- and...

The contents of this book cover what a canon is and why it matters, the canon backstory, modern canons, factors that make a work canonical, the literary canon, and much more.