Many language books are boring-this one is not. Written by a native English speaker who learned Spanish the hard way-by trying to talk to Spanish-speaking people-it offers English speakers who have a basic knowledge of Spanish hundreds of tips for using the language more fluently and colloquially, with fewer obvious "gringo" errors. Writing with ......
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora. Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. Bridging Sonic Borders explores this sonic connection linking the homeland and far-flung locales-especially New York, ......
Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature
How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora. Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. Bridging Sonic Borders explores this sonic connection linking the homeland and far-flung locales-especially New York, ......
Megan Thee Stallion, Monica Roberts, and Other Houston Hurricanes
A whirling exploration of how Megan Thee Stallion inspires Black women and femmes like the late Monica Roberts, framed by the storm-making work of both. While rap megastar Megan Thee Stallion needs no introduction, fewer will be familiar with Monica Roberts, a Houston journalist, community historian, and trans activist with the popular blog ......
Memoirs from the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
Fourteen writers reflect on the complexities of Mexican American identity in hyphenated America. At a time when memoir has become an increasingly popular form of self-expression, fourteen writers from diverse backgrounds engaged with one another in a series of writing workshops sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies at UT Austin to ......
Exhibition catalogue of the life's work of a renowned Chicana artist. Carmen Lomas Garza, born in the United States in 1948, is one of the most important artists working in the country today. As an artist, activist, and educator, Garza is a central figure in the Chicano Movement in South Texas but is rarely considered within larger narratives ......
A collection of essays using Gloria Anzaldua's archival works to further explore and reassess the meaning of her legacy. In the 1980s, Gloria Anzaldua's pioneering Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back created new and durable trajectories for feminist, queer, Latinx, and postcolonial thought. Still, much of her writing was never ......
A collection of essays using Gloria Anzaldua's archival works to further explore and reassess the meaning of her legacy. In the 1980s, Gloria Anzaldua's pioneering Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back created new and durable trajectories for feminist, queer, Latinx, and postcolonial thought. Still, much of her writing was never ......
