Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis : A True Story about Risk, Entrepreneurship, Immigration, and Latino-Anglo Friendship

This book tells the incredible true story of Ranulfo Juárez, a Mexican immigrant. After working for years in the fields of Oregon and becoming a U.S. citizen, Ranulfo started making plans to buy a small bakery in 2005. But not knowing if the economy would hold steady, Ranulfo examined his dreams eve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Wogan, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesPalgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
Subjects
Social sciences.
Ethnology.
Ethnology > Latin America.
Ethnography.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319522647
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7
Physical DescriptionXII, 229 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Cutting the Cloth
  • 2. Invitation
  • 3. Teaming Up
  • 4. Saints of the Casino
  • 5. Car Crash
  • 6. Trip to Mexico
  • 7. Don Quixote Rides Again
  • 8. Searching for the Key
  • 9. A Moon Shot
  • 10. Visit to Campus
  • 11. Confronting the Enemy
  • 12. Mysteries of Money
  • 13. Garbage Dream
  • 14. Crash Warning
  • 15. Stopping Time
  • 16. Into the Mystic
  • 17. Plan B
  • 18. Mr. Success or Mr. Worthless?
  • 19. Financial Crisis
  • 20. Wrecking Ball
  • 21. Respect for the Turtle.

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