“My first job as a kid was to learn English... to translate the outside world into Spanish for my parents. And it soon dawned on me that even adults were not exactly sure what they were saying in either language.“ BookTwitter
with an event that will reunite Diaz with Nuestra Palabra veterans and feature dance performances too.
His book is a call to action. He’s looking for more cultural accelerators to rise up, band together, and take action against a new wave ofand other challenges: “We must mark Our victories. We must acknowledge that, with Librotraficantes, We reached The Tip of The Pyramid and will again. We must look at the risks, the costs, the beauty of it. We must study the tactics,” he writes in the book’s atypical “PROS” style.spoke with Diaz about the book, his life, and his dreams.
By the same token, we do need a common ground. So in the book’s preface, one way to describe the metaphor “cultural accelerator” is folks from our community who’ve achieved self-determination and are advancing in their chosen fields or who stay in touch with the community, and then in an act of self-determination, some of us say, well, we’re Chicano.
Today in Texas, you and other Chicanos, Mexican Americans, and Latinx writers play leadership roles in the arts. For example, Lupe Mendez, your fellowfrom Houston, is Texas Poet Laureate. Both the current and past presidents of Texas Institute of Letters are Mexican American. Are you celebrating?think those are huge milestones. At a community level, we are thriving.
They think that our communities will say, “Well, that’s not us, that’s the other community.” They don’t understand the plurality of the community.What’s happened is that “the right” is not going to ban Mexican American studies again. However, when I look over the list, there’s many books by and about Latinos on that list. The Texas State Representative [Matt Krause] put Gloria Velásquez’s
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