literature
Sandra Cisneros to receive PEN/Nabokov Award for international literature
Sandra Cisneros, the Mexican American novelist whose books “The House on Mango Street” and “Woman Hollering Creek” are widely considered contemporary classics of American literature, has won the PEN/Nabokov Award for […]
American Latino literature has focused more on undocumented immigrants
*The literature of the undocumented has “become an important piece of the immigration policy debate that often can be discussed only in black-and-white legal terms.” VL By George Diepenbrock, The University […]
East Harlem bookstore highlighting Latino literature started through community crowdfunding
*A meeting place for Latinos across New York City. It’s worth a visit if visit NYC. VL By Fox News Latino Three years after opening its doors in East Harlem, […]
America Lacks Multicultural Literature
*There are wonderful, brilliant Latino writers in the U.S. But editors, publishers, press decision makers, not so much – at least not in the big-box bookselling universe. All the more […]
Latino Children’s Literature That Should Top Lists
By NPR Each year The New York Times highlights top children’s books. But this year, not one book is by a Latino author. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with blogger Monica Olivera, […]
Latino UH professor awarded for recovered literature
By Timothy Payne, The Daily Cougar Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies Nicolas Kanellos received high honors from Mayor Annise Parker for his work to make American Latinos’ literature available to […]
Texas Group Aims To “Smuggle” Latino Literature Back Into AZ
The video shows a man hanging out in front of the trunk of a car filled with books you may recognize, books about Latinos, books written by Latinos. He says […]
Carlos Guerra, journalist and civil rights activist
In the 1960s, Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville) was a hotbed for political activism. The campus was the home of several Mexican American civil rights organizations. Among them […]
Donald Trump and The Frito Bandito
Since the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, those of us born and raised along the U.S. / Mexico border have been continually marginalized into a geographic […]
15 Books by Contemporary Mexican Writers That Make America Greater
*Why you should read this: Because it’s the weekend, and while you’re waiting for the Superbowl to begin (or not) this is a good option to pass the time. Because […]