Our curricula never included books by anyone but white men ... by such literary luminaries as Rudolfo Anaya, the doyen of Chicano literature, and Sandra Cisneros — two writers who deeply ...

Published when Chicano scholars and activists were questioning Anglo dominance of the Southwest, the book describes the ... he has spread a love of literature to new generations.” ...

For Alurista, this is where the real future of Chicano literature is being written. And the 35-year-old poet practices what he preaches. Alurista publishes Maize, a literary magazine; books of ...

The author has greatly influenced the landscape of Chicano literature and continues to write books while garnering literary awards. He earned a B.A. in English and American Literature from the ...

Still, critic Héctor Calderón wrote that Rechy is "one of Mexican-American ... omitted from anthologies of Chicano writers, a ‘California writer’ ignored in books about California.

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82.

The Chicano Research Center is a non-profit organization that once started in someone's basement. In 1969, Vietnam War veteran Richard Soto picked up his first literature book that detailed the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The 81-year-old author is often called a dean of Chicano literature ... have created a bilingual children’s book with parallel texts in Spanish and English about ...

Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel “Bless Me, Ultima,” a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Anaya’s niece, Belinda Henry ...