John Chandlee Turnbull

M.A. TESOL, M.I.A., M.Div. | English as a Second Language Specialist, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Review: ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’

April 23, 2019April 24, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

The author, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, stamps my book copy with a design prepared for such occasions, that of the flowers of the borrachero tree (see photo above) and a fragment from her novel: "We were rich in our stories."

‘Waking up white’: Am I really awake?

April 1, 2017January 19, 2019John Turnbull Leave a comment

I think that I’ve missed out on something - white, male, Protestant, and straight, there’s an expanse of human experience to which I do not have access.

Mensajes Desde Colombia

By John Turnbull

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Blog posts

  • Playing a ‘cascarita’ with words September 1, 2019
  • Letter from Santa Marta, Magdalena August 9, 2019
  • Review: ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’ April 23, 2019
  • Variations on ‘slavery’ in the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) March 7, 2019
  • ‘Mensajes Desde Colombia’: El epílogo February 2, 2019

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  • 'The Nation' on immigration policy
  • Aikuma Project Strengthening the world’s treasure languages
  • Code Switch (NPR) A pastiche of race, ethnicity, culture, and language
  • Democracy Now! on immigrant rights
  • First Languages Australia Interactive map of Australia’s indigeneous languages
  • Global Voices (Language) Translations of international stories on language rights and advocacy
  • Pro Publica on immigration Investigating how immigration policy impacts people’s lives
  • Untranslatable Exotic words from the world’s treasure languages
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