March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature We recommend El Encuentro (English version The Encounter) by Rita Wirkala, a Young Adult
Month: March 2020
Why Dear Reader, You Should Read Chican@/x Poets Andrés Montoya and Natalie Díaz
“One day, God fell in love” sings the late, great Chicano poet, Andrés Montoya. I have taught his posthumous collection
Our Dad Is In Atlantis: Border Crossings as Latinx Theater Practice
March 2020 Latinx Talk on Latinx Migration Literature A butterfly calls
Restoring History, Brick by Brick
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature As a historical and biographical novel, The Brick People (Arte
The Poems the Border Crossed: Attending to the Resilient Geographies of the Tohono O’odham and Pima People
March 2020 Latinx Talk Series on Latinx Migration Literature I remember sitting in a Caribbean Literature course in college and
LatinAsian and Black Latinx Migrations in Literature
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature My first choice for teaching a Latinx migration literary piece
Migrants in the Land of Plenty
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Público Press, 2012) by
Transplanting the Tropics in Manhattan
When the protagonist, Juan Marcos, in the opening pages of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner’s little-known, Spanish-language novel Trópico en Manhattan (1951), migrates
Considering Consumption in Teaching Latinx Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature Like a series of mixtapes, my Latinx literature syllabi feature
On The Tattooed Soldier and What We Carry in Migration
March 2020 Latinx Talk Special Series on Latinx Migration Literature In the immigrant novel I teach, there is not one
Not your Mami
“Racism intersects with sexism to pit women of color and white women against each other. Women of color are sexualized