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Centro de Ninos and the Comisíon Femenil Mexicana Nacional by Antonio SolisGomez
Father Luce and others lead protesters during the National Chicano Moratorium in Laguna Park The disappointment with the Movimiento at the start of the 70’s led me to disentangle myself as much as...
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El macrocosmos y microcosmos del dolor en la poesía y narrativa de Caraza
El macrocosmos y microcosmos del dolor en la poesía y narrativa de CarazaBloguera invitada, María Esther Quintana Millamoto, Ph.D.María Esther Quintana Millamoto is an associate professor of Hispanic...
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Sherlock Homie and Three Reflections
Review: Manuel Ramos. The Golden Havana Night. A sherlock Homie Adventure. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-55885-867-1Michael SedanoManuel Ramos hasn’t finished his newest Gus Corral...
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Read for the Record: Maybe Something Beautiful
Together, let’s celebrate the power of reading!A message from F. Isabel Campoy:On October 25, join millions of readers young and old to celebrate Jumpstartkids’ Read for the Record!Join us in...
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Cockroaches in Living Rooms around the World
Daniel Cano Papa and Baby Cockroach 1948 I’d already done a three-year stint in the military, one year in Vietnam, a life...
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Back from a Two-Week Trip to Ireland
Melinda PalacioDoolin I'm back from a wonderful two-week trip to Ireland with Steve and our friends, Anthony and Crystal. The first thing I did was to make one of my favorite dishes, chiles en nogada....
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Surviving the Teen Years in the Barrio of the 1950's, by Antonio SolisGomez
Recent Photo of Lincoln High SchoolSchool work at Lincoln High School began to wear on everyone’s nerves right after the Easter break. We still had some weeks left of baseball and track but football...
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¡Xicano!
A poem by Daniel A. OlivasIt began as a cruel Jibe (so the etymologists say) Because the descendants Of the great, fallen Moctezuma could not Purge their mouths of The indigenous sounds of Nahuatl,...
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Overheard At Vroman's. The Gluten-free Chicano Cooks Fish. UNAM telecourses.
Reyna Grande In Conversation With Alex EspinozaFriday night's is an audience of readers, gente who have come on Friday night to the independent bookseller, Vroman's, in Pasadena CA because reading...
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Turning Pages/ Pasando páginas
Turning Pages: My Life StoryPasando páginas: La historia de mi vidaBy Sonia SotomayorIllustrated by Lulu Delacre Age Range: 4 - 8 years Grade Level: Preschool - 3 Hardcover:...
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Chicanonautica: Attack of the Mutating Stereotypes
by Ernest Hogan Stereotype has become a dirty word. After all, they are distortions of reality, often insulting, and are used by those in power to keep the rest of us down. No wonder some gente want...
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CILDE -- Latino Crime Fiction on Campus
I recently had the pleasure and honor of participating in the8th International Hispanic Crime Fiction Conference, also known as CILDE, which stands for La Conferencia Internacional de Literatura...
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Librarianship and Computers, a Short History. By Antonio SolisGomez
In the early part of 1980 computers were beginning to appear in libraries. The Tucson Public’s Main Library had a special unit that was funded by the state to answer difficult reference question that...
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Interview of Linda Garcia Merchant
Interview of Linda Garcia Merchant by Xánath CarazaLinda Garcia Merchant is a founding member of the Chicana Por Mi Raza Digital Memory Collective (University of Michigan), and a Digital Media Partner...
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Grande Memoir Well Worth Reading
Review: Reyna Grande. A Dream Called Home. New York: Atria Books, 2018.ISBN 9781501171420Michael SedanoI stared past the point of my bayonet and focused my gaze across Monterey Bay to the misty spot...
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The Iron River
By Daniel AcostaHardcover: 225 pagesPublisher: Cinco Puntos Press Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1941026931ISBN-13: 978-1941026939A river runs through young Manny Maldonado Jr.’s life, heart and...
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Portrait of a "Bonus Baby"
Daniel Cano Richard "Buzz" Hernandez1958, my cousin appears confident in his Orioles uniform, a wide smile on his handsome...
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Drunk on Poetry
Melinda PalacioSporting one of my official Bird Forgiveness Tour outfits. As the sights and sounds of my magical vacation to Ireland start to fade like the voices in the movie set in Scotland,...
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Tucson, Meet Yourself, A New Age Festival; by Antonio SolisGomez
Friday at sunset after a raining dayIn 1974 a far reaching thinker named Jim Griffith had an idea to gather Tucson’s diverse ethnic communities and allow them to showcase their cultural gifts in music...
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Art and photography: Work by Eloy Torrez and Juliane Backmann at the East Los...
"May the Force be with Her" by Eloy TorrezOn October 11, I had the pleasure of attending the opening celebration of an exhibit of the art and photography of Eloy Torrez and Juliane Backmann at the Los...
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