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Offerings or acts of self-sacrifice also known as promesas were regularly made to help ease the pain that accompanied immigrant life such as unemployment, illness, and tense encounters with racist law enforcement. Viewed as innocent and unsullied, children often became involved in a promesa to help their family.
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When I Became La Promesa - For every unexpected illness that required medical insurance,
When I Became La Promesa. Peggy Robles-Alvarado - Peggy Robles-Alvarado is a Bronx based educator whose latest work appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 LatiNext Anthology (Haymarket Books, 2020).
Oct 6, 2020 · Among other things, it illustrates the point that lived religion is worlds apart from theology and religion in books. “When I Became La Promesa,” Peggy Robles-Alvarado [Image: Portrait of Cécile Anker reading, Albert Anker, 1886, public domain]
Feb 27, 2020 · Peggy Robles-Alvarado: The Courage of a Bronx Latina Poet. February 27, 2020 Zayna Palmer. In the poetry collection Conversations with My Skin (2011), Peggy Robles-Alvarado shares her resilient story of becoming pregnant at fifteen and her subsequent life as a single mother.
Oct 26, 2020 · When I Became La Promesa When I Became La Promesa. Check out my Poem of The Day on Poets.org!
Oct 6, 2020 · "promesas were regularly made to help ease the pain that accompanied immigrant life such as unemployment, illness, and tense encounters with racist law...
