The Tejas Star Book Award was created by the Region One ESC Library Advisory Committee to promote reading in general and for readers to discover the cognitive and economic benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism. All the children of Texas will have the opportunity to select their favorite book from the Tejas Star list. http://www.txla.org/tejas-current […]
Review: Reyes Cárdenas. Chicano Poet 1970-2010. San Antonio TX: Aztlan Libre Press, 2013. ISBN-10: 0984441557 ISBN-13: 978-0984441556.Michael SedanoI love it when an expectation gets trashed in light of actuality. It’s especially thrilling when it comes in form of a richly diverse collection of poems assembled under the term “Chicano poet” in publisher Aztlá […]
Guest essay by Álvaro Huerta WHEN I HEAR ABOUT AMERICAN LEADERS SCAPEGOATING Latino immigrants, I can’t help but think about my late father, Salomón Chavez Huerta. Like millions of other immigrants in this country, my father endured a harsh life in his home country and sacrificed greatly to settle and raise a family in this country. While he was a stoic man, […]
Lalo DelgadoInstitutional Alternatives “These palomas like I, belong here in the barrio?”by Abelardo B. Delgado Share I found our city to be lacking in terms of enough alternatives. The same story of long-waited lists was told by two manager of the two high-rise housing units. I was happy to learn that some two such high-rise units are scheduled to be erecte […]
Rodolfo F. AcuñaIs the Glass Half Full or Half EmptyA Stupid QuestionBy Rodolfo F. AcuñaShare The day the Supreme Court handed down its decision Arizona’s SB 1070, I received about a dozen text messages saying, “We won!” Knowing the history of the Court and dealing with this sort of wrongheaded thinking since the Bakke Case of 1978, I knew t […]
SOUL FOOD: Abelardo Delgado and the Word Keynote presentation at the 5thAnnual Lalo Delgado Poetry Festival, Metropolitan State University, Denver, Colorado, April 24, 2012. By Felipe de Ortego y GascaScholar in Residence/Founding Member, Past Chair, and Member of the Executive Committee (2008-2011), Department of Chicana/Chicano and Hemispheric Studies, Wes […]
Saving ASARCO's smokestack to create “superjoint” to cost $14M Preserving ASARCO's smokestack to make a giant marijuana joint to the benefit of UT El Paso (UTEP) students would cost $14 million a new study says.Last year, the City of El Paso held public meetings regarding the fate of the old American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) smelter. […]
ShareAP Associated Pest UT El Paso (UTEP) Student Health Services Prepares for Chipotle Grand OpeningCholera Epidemic Imminentby Dolores TómagoPosted: 03/13/2012 12:17:33 AM MDT ShareUTEP Student Health Services has gone into “Disaster Alert” as El Paso's first Chipotle is set to open this week across from UTEP's Don Haskin's Center. Chipol […]