Aurora Levins Morales
- January 10, 2024
- Writer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Aurora Levins Morales |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Date Of Birth | Feb 24, 1954(1954-02-24) |
| Age | 70 |
| Birthplace | Maricao |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Pisces |
Aurora Levins Morales Biography
| Name | Aurora Levins Morales |
| Birthday | Feb 24 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Place Of Birth | Maricao |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Parents | Rosario Morales, Richard Levins |
Aurora Levins Morales is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on February 24, 1954 in Maricao, United States. Levins Morales was born February 24, 1954 in Indiera Baja, Maricao, Puerto Rico. Her mother, Rosario Morales, was a Harlem-born Puerto Rican writer. Her father, Richard Levins, who was Brooklyn born of Ukrainian-Jewish heritage, was an ecologist, a population geneticist, a mathematical ecologist who researched diversity in human populations, and John Rock Professor of Population Sciences and head of the Human Ecology program of the Department of Global Health and Population of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a member of the US and Puerto Rican Communist Parties, the Movimiento Pro Independencia (the Independence movement in Puerto Rico), and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, and he was on an FBI surveillance list. During the last two decades, Levins has concentrated on application of ecology to agriculture, particularly in the economically less-well-developed nations of this planet. When her mother, Rosario, died in 2011, she moved in with her father in his Cambridge, Massachusetts home. She has two brothers, Ricardo and Alejandro. Ricardo Levins Morales is a well known poster artist and organizer and lives in Minneapolis, MN. Alejandro Levins is an entrepreneur in Western Massachusetts. The son of her brother Ricardo is Minneapolis-based hip hop artist Manny Phesto.
From 1979 to 1981, Levins Morales worked as co-founder, scriptwriter, and performer for La Peña Cultural Productions Group. The group created multimedia productions around the theme of Latin American politics and culture as a form of political activism. In 1986, Levins Morales and her mother and wrote Getting Home Alive, a collection of poetry and prose about their lives as US Puerto Rican women. Unfortunately, after the publication of this collection, Morales sustained a brain injury in a car accident. This accident set Morales back for a year, with struggles in performing daily tasks. Levins Morales went to graduate school to become a historian. While her dissertation focused on retelling the history of the Atlantic world with Puerto Rican women’s lives at the center, she also did extensive research on the history of Puerto Ricans in California, collecting several dozen oral histories, and preserving early documents of the San Francisco Puerto Rican community. From 1999 to 2002, she worked at the Oakland Museum of California as lead historian for the Latino Community History Project, working with high school students to collect oral histories and photographs, and create artwork and curriculum materials based on them.
In her collection of essays Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity (1998,) Levins Morales questions traditional accounts of American history and their consistent exclusion of people of color. She argues that traditional historical narratives have had devastating effects on those it has silenced, and oppressed. In an attempt to “heal” this historical trauma of oppression, she designs a “medicinal” history that gives centrality to the marginalized, particularly Puerto Rican women. Levins Morales strives to make visible those who have been absent from history books while also emphasizing resistance efforts.
Levins Morales is one of the 18 Latina feminist women who participated in the gatherings of the Latina Feminist Group, which culminated with the publication of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios in 2001.
In 1976, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she worked at the KPFA Third World News Bureau, reporting on events in South Africa, the Philippines, Chile, Nicaragua and what was still Rhodesia, and on environmental racism, housing struggles, and the movement to get the US Navy to stop bombing Vieques, Puerto Rico.
Aurora Levins Morales Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Aurora Levins Morales is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Aurora Levins Morales 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Aurora Levins Morales (born February 24, 1954) is a Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet. She is significant within Latina feminism and Third World feminism as well as other social justice movements.
Levins Morales became a public writer in the 1970s as a result of the many social justice movements of that time that addressed the importance of giving a voice to the oppressed. At age fifteen, she was the youngest member of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union and co-produced a feminist radio show, took part in sit-ins and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, guerrilla theater, women’s consciousness raising groups, and door-to-door organizing for daycare and equal pay.
In her book, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas (1998), her goal is “to unearth the names of women deemed unimportant by the writers of official histories”(Levins Morales, p. xvii). Short pieces interspersed throughout the narratives describe medicinal herbs and foods that symbolize the healing properties of the narratives that follow those sections. In this manner she treats historical erasure as a disease that a curandera historian can heal through “home-grown” herbal history. The histories she portrays in the text demonstrate the strength and resistance of Puerto Rican women and their ancestors.
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Who is Aurora Levins Morales?
Aurora Levins Morales is an internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist poet and essayist whose work explores issues of identity, social justice, and the interwoven social and natural histories of our landscapes and our bodies.
Where is Aurora Levins Morales from?
Maricao, Puerto Rico
What is the poem child of the Americas about?
Child of the Americas is a poem by Aurora Levins Morales that tackles social diversity. It is a poem about an American who came from a mixture of various cultures that comprise her heritage and her identity as an American.
How is the speaker's point of view in the poem child of the Americas?
How is the speaker’s point of view in the poem “Child of the Americas” used to explore cultural identity? The third-person point of view allows her to be an objective observer of cultural conflicts. The third-person point of view allows her to look at culture from a historical perspective.
What does it mean to be born at a crossroads?
“A child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads” Dispersement: from native homeland to other place. Usually Jewish and African. Crossroads-crossing of ethnicities. “A product of the ghettos of New York I have never known”