“But I wasn’t sure that I considered myself a Latino writer, though not because I didn’t think of myself as “qualifying” as one. I was undecided about the term “Latino writers” – indeed, about all such plural designations when applied to work as solitary and individual as fiction writing—words seeming to affirm an affinity with […]
What are the implications for educators? With Dr. Xaé Alicia Reyes, Professor of Education & Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, University of Connecticut & Hector Luis Alamo, Jr., Blogger, Assoc. Editor, @BeingLatino “The problem is us and how we usually think about ourselves. We have so many positive attributes…but we think they are a […]
With Patricia Dunn, Author of Rebels by Accident Out of the Box, 2007, Rios I have a bone to pick when it comes to labels. Labels even as seemingly harmless as “multicultural.” Maybe it goes back to high school, when I attended a prestigious prep school in New Hampshire. On the first day I […]
Are we trying to get inside or are we creating new spaces? Years ago living in Madrid, my husband and I were on one of our long walks, circling back from el casco antiguo nearing La Plaza del Sol, now the central meeting place for […]
On the Conversation with Cornel West, Michael Moore & Esther Armah The Beginning is Near conversation with Cornel West and Michael Moore presented by the Brecht Forum at Hunter College Friday night, really should’ve included more of Esther Armah’s voice. Although simply the moderator who for the most […]
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer,When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,How soon unaccountable […]
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