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I sat down with Tomás Ybarra-Frausto at the D.R. Semmes Family YMCA to congratulate him on the 40th anniversary of “Modern Chicano Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays,” his groundbreaking book of ...

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Recorded as part of the “American Identity in Children’s Literature Symposium”, four scholars discuss the development of ethnic or multicultural children’s literature, which seeks to diversify the all ...

Lalo Delgado, an activist and poet who was considered el abuelito, or the granddaddy, of the Chicano literature movement for pioneering writing that reflected a commitment to social justice and ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Subscribe to read ...

The Wittliff Collections at the Texas State University has picked up the complete literary papers of internationally acclaimed El Paso-born writer John Rechy, a pioneer of American, LGBTQ and Chicano ...

During summers and winters as a kid, Manuel Muñoz worked alongside his family in the farm fields of California’s Central Valley, surrounded by hard labor, poverty and his community’s constant fear of ...

Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Anaya’s niece, Belinda Henry, said the ...

I stood mute in Los Angeles’ searing afternoon sun, my high school football uniform soaked with perspiration from practice. I blinked and simply stared at one of the coaches who had grunted that ...