LatinoLit

#DignidadLiteraria and PRESENTE Respond to 30-Day Follow-Up Meeting With Macmillan USA

#DignidadLiteraria sees clear effort, urges for concrete measurable results.

  • Mar 12, 2020
  • 3:57 PM

Critics of Oprah Book Club Title Put New Novel on Trial

TUCSON, Arizona (AP) — When Oprah Winfrey chose the novel “American Dirt” for her book club, she imagined engaging in an impassioned television dialog about the narrative, which follows a Mexican mother and her son fleeing to the United States.

  • Mar 4, 2020
  • 5:11 PM

What Is America’s Education Promise? (A POEM)

Is it the reproduction of inequality
The fueling of wealth disparity
Fulfilling capitalists’ interests

  • Feb 27, 2020
  • 3:08 PM

PRESENTE.ORG and #DIGNIDADLITERARIA Urge NY Gov Cuomo to Investigate Systematic Discrimination in Hiring and Book Publishing

Following nationwide call to action in the wake of AMERICAN DIRT, published by Macmillan/Flatiron, activists denounce the “Big Five” for publishing only 300 Latino books out of 300,000 published each year.

  • Feb 25, 2020
  • 9:28 AM

Winfrey Holds TV Discussion on AMERICAN DIRT in Arizona

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s soon-to-be televised discussion about the controversial novel American Dirt is drawing scrutiny for not inviting some of the book’s harshest Latino critics.

  • Feb 15, 2020
  • 12:48 PM

An Invitation to Oprah Winfrey From #DignidadLiteraria

We are writing you in the context of your book club’s widely-promoted “all sides” discussion on American Dirt in Tucson being recorded on Thursday, February 13th.

  • Feb 12, 2020
  • 10:07 PM

#DignidadLiteraria Was Never About Just One Book

Latino Rebels Radio: February 9, 2020.

  • Feb 9, 2020
  • 9:14 PM

AMERICAN DIRT Fiasco Exposes Publishing Industry That’s Too Consolidated, Too White and Too Selective

As someone who studies the publishing business, I see this ordeal as a symptom of an industry that relies far too heavily on a handful of predetermined “big books,” and whose gatekeepers remain predominantly white.

  • Feb 6, 2020
  • 9:25 AM

Flatiron Books and the Latino Threat Narrative (OPINION)

Once again, portraying us as the bad guys.

  • Feb 3, 2020
  • 10:35 PM

Author Sandra Cisneros Digs In on Support of AMERICAN DIRT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Celebrated Mexican American author Sandra Cisneros is refusing to back down from her support for the novel, “American Dirt,” despite outcry from other Latino writers amid charges of stereotypes, and is telling critics they should just calm down and write “poetry.”

  • Jan 31, 2020
  • 11:06 AM

AMERICAN DIRT and Where We Can’t Forget to Point the Finger (OPINION)

Pressuring Oprah and others to review what went wrong with American Dirt is not enough.

  • Jan 30, 2020
  • 5:41 PM

Latino USA Presents: Digging Into ‘American Dirt’

Maria Hinojosa speaks to four people at the heart of the current controversy.

  • Jan 30, 2020
  • 8:58 AM

Author Tour for Controversial AMERICAN DIRT Is Canceled

NEW YORK (AP) — The publisher of Jeanine Cummins’ controversial novel American Dirt has canceled the remainder of her promotional tour, citing concerns for her safety.

  • Jan 29, 2020
  • 3:39 PM

A Letter Signed by 82 Writers Asks Oprah Winfrey to Remove Book Club Designation for AMERICAN DIRT

“We are asking only that you remove the influential imprimatur of Oprah’s Book Club,” the letter said.

  • Jan 29, 2020
  • 11:00 AM

#DignidadLiteraria Responds to Oprah Winfrey’s Call for a Conversation About AMERICAN DIRT

#DignidadLiteraria also encouraged Winfrey to invite them to the event.

  • Jan 28, 2020
  • 8:16 PM

AMERICAN DIRT Latino Backlash Part of Long Publishing War

The novel has become a flashpoint in debates over who gets published, how reputations are formed, and who can tell which stories in an industry —from publishers and editors to booksellers and agents— that is predominantly white.

  • Jan 28, 2020
  • 2:03 PM

Myriam Gurba on AMERICAN DIRT and a Revolution to Change Publishing

Latino Rebels Radio: January 26, 2020.

  • Jan 26, 2020
  • 12:16 PM

‘American Dirt’ and Beyond Superficial Diversity and Inclusion

Even when entities present themselves as coming in peace, there’s always a caveat, or worse, a double-edged sword that we hastily and clumsily forged ourselves.

  • Jan 22, 2020
  • 7:12 PM

Death of a Barber

I don’t exactly remember how it came to be, but Dennis was my barber for several years, until he unexpectedly passed away at the much-too-young age of 38. 

  • Dec 17, 2019
  • 9:55 AM

‘Ordinary Girls’ Is the Diasporican Memoir I Have Been Waiting For

“I come from poverty, from El Caserío Padre Rivera… It was a world of men, of violence, a place too often not safe for women and girls,” Jaquira Díaz writes in the introduction of her new book.

  • Dec 11, 2019
  • 12:47 PM

The Cristela Alonzo Interview

Latino Rebels Radio: November 3, 2019

  • Nov 3, 2019
  • 11:26 PM

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