New Latina/o authors are creating intimacy with the reader in the context of a complex diversity that has required two neologisms, Latin@ and Chican@. That requirement emphasizes how incomprehensible ...

On the Day of the Dead each year, Charlene Villaseñor Black goes to the cemetery with her family to reconnect with her ancestors. She then goes to the Hill to see through the Day of the Dead ...

This fall, University of Wisconsin students will be able to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Chicana/o and Latina/o studies. Previously, this was only offered as a certificate. Director of the Chicana/o ...

As the Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies department considers renaming itself Chicanx/Latinx Studies, the department hosted an open forum with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CSRE) to ...

The Los Angeles art scene is now preparing for the fall 2017 launch of the second edition of Pacific Standard Time, which will involve over 40 Southern California institutions. Among the most eagerly ...

The legendary Latinas who tore down many of last century’s barriers to civil rights are leaving public life or passing away. A month after the death of the trailblazing Chicana leader Gloria Molina, ...

Edited by Elisa Facio and Irene Lara. Univ. of Arizona, $29.95 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-0-8165-3097-7 Academics Facio and Lara bring together 19 prose and poetry pieces, all reflecting on the ...

Arlette Lucero is one of five Latina artists who will be featured in the Las Adas fall exhibition at the Museo De las Americas in Denver. “This exhibit is dedicated to five Latina, Chicana women of ...

WASHINGTON – The granddaughter of a bracero, who waited 50 days to take her seat in Congress, Rep. Adelita Grijalva stepped to the podium on the House floor and told her colleagues, "Our democracy ...

In the 1960s, women in the United States were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment while Mexican Americans were fighting for racial and economic justice along with Black Americans. Those were ...