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National Hispanic Heritage Month
By Alicia Waters | September 15, 2022
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage Month. Celebrate this month with activities and events sponsored by the Library of Congress. For more information about activities and events go to:
https://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/
Books by Hispanic authors:
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (DB 100680)
Juliet comes out to her family just before leaving for an internship with a feminist author in Portland, Oregon. Things don’t go so well, but she heads off to Portland where she plans to figure out what it means to be a Puerto Rican lesbian from the Bronx. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. For senior high and older readers. Spanish language. 2019.
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto (DB 78528)
Puerto Rico in 1505 to the twenty-first-century debate over immigration reform. Encourages the embrace of Hispanic culture and posits that doing so would be to the nation’s advantage and enrichment. History. Sociology. 2014.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (DB 35608)
First published in 1984. A series of vignettes introduces the friends and family of the narrator, Esperanza, who lives on Mango Street in the Puerto Rican section of Chicago. In this transient neighborhood of people speaking a mixture of Spanish and English, Esperanza, whose name means “hope,” learns to cope with being an out-of-step girl by telling stories. By the author of Woman Hollering Creek (RC 33451).
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paolo Ramos (DB 102333)
This activitist and journalist travels across the United States to understand the genesis of the controversial term “Latinx,” meeting the groups of people who define it. Many are from marginalized groups, and the new term has given them a sense of solidarity. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Social Sciences. Spanish language. 2020.
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