5 Latino authors you should be reading now

5 Latino authors you should be reading now

By Laura Lomas | Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University Newark – TheConversation.com – Photo: Alvy Libros/flickr, CC BY-SA Photo: Many authors born in Latin America have produced some of their finest work while living in the United States. As...
New Frontiers for Mexican-American Literature

New Frontiers for Mexican-American Literature

By Arts & Sciences/University of Kentucky – hs.as.uky.edu – Mural Not Credited. This presentation begins by outlining the near invisibility of Mexican American writers in elite cultural circles and their rather partial depiction in popular culture...
Pachucos y Sirenas Looks Back at 1940s Chicano Counterculture

Pachucos y Sirenas Looks Back at 1940s Chicano Counterculture

By Eneri Rodriguez – WestWord.com – Photo: Daniel Salazar. Photo: Museo de las Americas new exhibition Pachucos y Sirenas looks at 1940s Mexican-American counterculture in the Southwest. (Daniel Salazar) In the 1930s and 1940s, being brown in the United...