Mexican American

Let’s fly away from the DC area all the way to the border — El Paso, Texas, to be precise, where Mexican-American author Yasmín Ramírez resides. Last year, Yasmín delighted us with her debut memoir, ¡Ándale, Prieta! …

Mexican Magic (Realism) — I am suffering from a form of writer’s block as I sit down to pen this review. What can I say about the magical Valley of Shadows? The publisher is trying to sell it as a novel of magic realism — a genre unto its own where the mundane and…

Recommended Reading for Nican Huehcatlatolli Acevedo, Mario. The Felix Gomez series, books 1–7. Alcalá, Kathleen. Spirits of the Ordinary. Aldama, Frederick Luis. Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands. Barajas, Henry. Helm Greycastle. Barba Higuera, Donna. The Last Cuentista. Bowles, David. The Blue-Spangled Blue. The Path #1. — . Chupacabra Vengeance. — …

What does culture even mean to me? I have culture; you have culture, and we all have culture, but this is a story of my own. My mother is a prime example of my culture. I grew up speaking Spanish as my first language, and I later “lost” it and…

Throughout primary and secondary education, students learn about Brown v. Board of Education and the efforts of the African American community for equality and ending segregation in the United States of America. African American efforts have contributed significantly to equality in the United States. …

First Mexican-American Nurse to Earn a Doctorate — Thank you to NAHN for publishing Hector’s bio on your site, as nearly any source we found during research came from, linked to, or reproduced, your original source. Hector Hugo Gonzalez was born in Roma, Texas in 1937. His family’s Mexican roots trace past the mid-1700s, during a period when…