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Four La Bloga Writers Are Finalists for The International Latino Book Awards!
La Bloga writers represent! Four of our Bloguistas, whose books have been published in 2014, have been recently named "finalists." Now in its 16th year, the International Latino Book Awards were...
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Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2015; Call to poets for Coiled Serpent...
The 2015 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books has come and gone but the glow is still here. Held at the University of Southern California campus the weekend of April 18 and 19, an estimated 150,000...
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Foto Ése: Poesia Para La Gente in the Garden. Community News Bits 'n Pieces.
Floricanto Para la TierraMichael SedanoThen one day, Chicken Boy disappeared from Broadway. Que plus ça change and all that, but this icon of a fried chicken restaurant above Los Angeles’ most...
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Chicanonautica: ¿Qué es Chicano Art?
by Ernest HoganI've always been an artist. Before I could write, I would draw stories. I never stopped. So it's no suprise that some of my drawings have ended up on display in a gallery.Specficly,...
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Where Storytellers Come From. CAL Awards.
Chandler Girls Baseball Team 1939 - 1942?My mother, Emma (Ermila), was born in 1927 in the mining town of Chandler, Colorado. She grew up in a place that no longer exists, literally and figuratively....
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Whiteing out the Latinos and black from Denver
This is not another article about lamenting the loss of ethnic neighborhoods. Or just about the loss of affordable housing. This is about America's 21st Century version of the purchasing of Manhattan...
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Poesía en español en Chicago e Italia, y más
Por Xánath CarazaVenice, Italy Chicana/o poets from Chicago to LA to Italy, we’re on the move. Chicago just recently celebrated the Poetry Festival en español, Poesía en abril, their eighth annual...
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Mariano Azuela Conference. Mothers On-line Floricanto.
Reading Your Own StuffFoto Essay: Scholars and a Novelist Read PapersMichael SedanoGeorgina García Gutiérrez Vélez, Maarten Van Delden, Emily Acevedo, Rubén QuinteroIt was 1973, the historic El...
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Maya's Blanket: La manta de Maya
By Monica BrownIllustrated by David Diaz Age Range:5 - 9 years Hardcover: 32 pages Publisher: CBP; 1 edition (August 15, 2015) Language: English ISBN-10:...
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New Series: Latin American Literatures and Cultures
Cambria Press is proud to announce a new series, which will be headed by Dr. Román de la Campa, the Edwin B. and Lenore R. Williams Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania. The...
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Oil Spill Disaster in Santa Barbara 2015
Blog post and photosby Melinda PalacioRefugio BeachBefore I moved to Santa Barbara, before I was born, the idyllic slice of California coastline suffered an oil blowout that killed thousands of...
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Memorial Day Tribute to Mi Papa
La mano de mi papa sobre la miaMi papa was born in Topeka, Kansas. He liked to tell me (and anyone else who wanted to know) that he was actually contraband from Mexico because he was conceived in...
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Discussing Chicano Literature at UC Davis
By Daniel OlivasMany authors—myself included—will admit to the loneliness of the writing process itself. This might explain why many authors park themselves and their laptops at a Starbucks or...
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Memorial Day 2015 On-line Floricanto
Michael SedanoNot that it mattered back in the Vietnam era, but one of those nameless men covered in mud is Michael Sedano doing U.S. Army Basic Combat Training. We all looked alike--piss pots, green...
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Latino Children's Summer Reading Program
From Monica Olivera,On Monday, June 1st, Latinas for Latino Lit will launch our third annual Latino Children's Summer Reading Program. This year's program is huge with a new, bilingual family-friendly...
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Chicanonautica: The Secret Yaqui Apocalypse
by Ernest HoganI consider the Yaquis to be family. My grandfather was a Yaqui – well, actually he was my mom's stepfather, but we didn't make those kind of distinctions in our large, extended Chicano...
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Guest Post - Reflections After Watching The Last Days in Vietnam
Guest Contributor: Daniel CanoMay 26, 2015 A colleague asked if I would introduce Rory Kennedy’s film The Last Days in Vietnam, which was screened at Santa Monica College earlier this month. At first...
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Jumping at the Sun in South Central LA: Spotlight on Skira Martinez and CIELO...
Olga Garcίa Echeverrίa “Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.” –Zora Neale Hurston. On Maple...
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Chicanos & Chicanas in Italy
Xánath Caraza Find out what is going on with these Chican@s in Italy: Alejandro Murguía, Natalia Treviño y la que escribe--from Rome to Mantova y de regreso.Upcoming at the Instituto Cervantes in Rome,...
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