10 Books From Latino & LatAm Authors For Your Summer Reading List

10 Books From Latino & LatAm Authors For Your Summer Reading List

NewsTaco June 15, 2017

*Here’s a good list of suggestions for your summer reading. It’s ambitious – for some – but doable. VL NewsTaco CULTURE THURSDAY By  Alejandra Oliva, Remezcla (4 minute read)  Along with […]

8 Great Latino Books Published In 2016

NewsTaco December 26, 2016

*Suggested reading before the year ends. VL By Rigoberto Gonález, NBC News (4 minute read)  As the year comes to a close, here’s one final look at some great Latino […]

2016 in books: 15 must reads from Latin American and US Latino authors

NewsTaco December 13, 2016

*Suggestions for the book worms on you list. VL By Alejandra Oliva, Remezcla (15 minute read) The last few years have been fantastic for works translated into English from writers […]

Publisher Jonathan Marcantoni Seeks Latino Books Outside ‘Usual’ Themes

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*This is a profile of a Latino writer/editor based in Colorado. But it’s also a call, of sorts, for Latinos to write about things other than immigration and identity. That’s […]

Latina, at the white, male New York Times: “Why are people thinking it’s OK to say racist sh-t in front of me?”

NewsTaco September 30, 2014

*This is a very good article about how a Latina journalist “learned to talk to white men.” Fair warning, it’s long (you have to raise that flag given today’s micro-attention […]

TX Legislators Would Cut Ethnic Studies in College Requirements

Mary Mata March 15, 2013

By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino Students at public universities in Texas may no longer be able to take courses focusing on racial, ethnic or gender history to fulfill their core requirements for […]

Want more Latino authors? Hit the bookstores

Mary Mata February 19, 2013

By Alexandra Aquino-Fike, Being Latino I want books.  Good books by and about Latinos.  Since Latinos comprise a large and growing part of the U.S. population, with increasingly significant purchasing […]

Latinos Need books by Latino Authors, But So Do All Students

Mary Mata December 20, 2012

By Esther Cepeda, NBC Latino Click on picture to read story. [Photo by RLHyde]  

Ten Latina Authored Books For Summer

Mary Mata June 26, 2012

By Kalyn Belsha, Voxxi Now that spring is officially behind us, you’re probably on the hunt for some beach reads that are not Fifty Shades of Grey. Luckily, Latino Literacy Now just named its […]

Bien Hecho: Carmen Tafolla Is San Antonio’s First Poet Laureate

Mary Mata April 24, 2012

Earlier this month, the city of San Antonio, Texas inaugurated its first Poet Laureate, UTSA scholar Dr. Carmen Tafolla. Tafolla, currently the university’s writer-in-residence for Children’s, Youth, and Transformative Literature was […]