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Once Ashamed of My Mexican Immigrant Parents, But Not Anymore
Salomón Chavez Huerta and Carmen Mejía Huerta. Mexico, 1954By guest blogger Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D.When I first applied to UCLA, I wrote in my personal essay that I didn’t have any positive role models in...
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Dance to the Music, If You Know It.
Review: Gregg Barrios. I-DJ. East Brunswick NJ: Hansen Publishing Group, 2016.ISBN: 978-1-60182- 328-1ISIN: B01958Z1GUMichael SedanoGregg Barrios’ I-DJ requires a lot more information than I can...
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Surviving Santiago
By Lyn Miller-Lachmann Hardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: Running Press Kids (June 2, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0762456337ISBN-13: 978-0762456338Returning to her homeland of Santiago, Chile, is the...
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Chicanonautica: Aztlán is the Wild West
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { by Ernest HoganOralé, buckaroos! Lost Trails 2: Forgotten Tales of theWeird West,edited by Cynthia Ward, with another story by me, plus a lot of other fantastic...
View ArticleArte Público Fall Catalog
Yes, summer hasn't officially begun yet - I know, I know. But here's the Fall Catalog from one of our favorite publishers (it's at the top of my list.) Never too soon to think about holiday gifts, is...
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A Chicana Punk Rocker in the 1970s: Alice Bag, Lead Singer for "The Bags"...
Before she was Alice Bag, her name was Alicia Armendariz, growing up in East L.A. It was the 1970s when Alicia was in high school, in love with music, with singing, and with all things artistic. One...
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Juan Felipe Herrera in Kansas City, MO
Juan Felipe Herrera in Kansas City, MOXánath CarazaPhoto credit: Stephen Holland
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Review: Memorial Day and The Mexican Flyboy.
Review: Alfredo Véa. The Mexican Flyboy. Norman OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2016.ISBN: 9780806187037Michael SedanoThe news made me nauseous and when I looked at the photograph my stomach churned....
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2016 Américas Book Award Winners
For more information visithttp://claspprograms.org/news/detail/51/Pam-Muoz-Ryan-and-Ashley-Hope-Prez-Win-2016-Amricas-AwardThe Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry,...
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Chicanos in Spain and Spanish Connections
Melinda PalacioProgram Cover for X Congreso International sore Literatura Chicana y Estudios LatinosMadrid 30 de mayo-1 de junio de 2016Facultad de Filologia, Universidad Complutense de MadridWhen a...
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Good Things Happen at Tina’s Café
A Fairy Tale by Daniel A. OlivasDuring waking hours, Félix José Costa would never allow himself to wonder how different life would be if he were just like everyone else. Average. Common. Normal. In...
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Review: Black Dove. Charlotte's Floricanto. On-line Floricanto
Review: Ana Castillo. Black Dove. mamá, mi’jo, and me. NY: The Feminist Press, 2016.ISBN: 978-1-55861-923-4Michael SedanoA memoir is, on its face, non-fiction. Obeying the tenets of non-fiction,...
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YES! WE ARE LATINOS WEBSITE
Alma Flor Ada & F. Isabel CampoyPictures by David DiazThrough first-person poems and descriptive prose, thirteen different Latino and Latina young people are introduced to readers. The histories of...
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Chicanonautica: Please Use L30 Responsibly
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; by Ernest HoganThe U.S./ Mexican border is like a one-way mirror. Latin America sees in, Norteamericanos can't see out, or if we do, it's clouded and distorted. It certainly...
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Lit Happens
A few choice events and announcements - from celebrating a renown Cuban poet to short fiction born in East Los Angeles to a dark gathering of noir writers and fans to fresh borderland verse. A...
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Diabetes Type I & II: Can't Take It Anymore?
Today I am complaining about diabetes, writing about the inevitable frustrations that come with the disease, so that you don't feel alone. It's not unusual (at all) to feel this way. But first, a...
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U. S. Latino Literature in Shawnee Mission North High School & More
U. S. Latino Literature in Shawnee Mission North High SchoolXánath CarazaOn Sunday morning, I was preparing my column for La Bloga for the next day, and I heard the horrible news of what happened in...
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Pariahs For All of Us. News 'n Notes.
Review: Sarah Rafael García and mónica teresa ortiz, Eds. pariahs. writing from outside the margins. Nacogdoches, Texas: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2016.ISBN: 978-1-62288-100-0Michael...
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REFORMA Events at ALA Conference
Learning Times Two - REFORMA President's ProgramEvery day the demand for children’s bilingual (English/Spanish) books grows as more children in the United States learn Spanish as their first or second...
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