Professor, 87, working on ‘Chicano Renaissance’

By Abe Villareal, The Silver City Sun-News

SILVER CITY — “By and large, American Latinos are a mixed group of people,” is how Felipe Ortego opens his 22-paragraph entry into what is expected to become the most comprehensive encyclopedia on Latino issues. A seemingly simple sentence, it is the lead into a detailed and informative piece on the impact Latinos have had in American literature through the last four centuries.

“There is a theme in my writings,” Ortego explains. “And it came to me now, it is that I am a literary inquirer.” Ortego has been questioning the status quo for 50 years, in academia, in politics, and in what most consider the accepted history of the Latino in America.

Now, Ortego, often referred to as the father of the Chicano Renaissance, is set to rock the boat with an exhaustive encyclopedic effort that will provide opinion and thought from leading experts across the country on Latino issues.

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