by Alma Flor Ada
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 1 – 2
Publisher: Children’s Book Press
ISBN-13: 978-0892392391
Perico, the parrot, learns to say, “Let Me Help!” from little Martita, who’s been saying that a lot lately. When the whole family scrambles to prepare for Cinco de Mayo, Perico knows there must be some way he can help—even if he is just a little parrot. Perico tries to help make tamales. He tries to help craft beautiful paper flowers for the barge his family will take down the San Antonio River. He even tries to help the boys practice their mariachi number. But at every turn Perico is shooed away. Finally, however, Perico figures out how he, a little parrot, can still add something special to the Cinco de Mayo fun.
by Alma Flor Ada
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten – 4
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
ISBN-13: 978-0440413608
Have you ever seen a weathervane? Your answer is probably “yes” since they are very common. But do you know why there is a little rooster on the top, spinning around to tell us which way the wind is blowing? Here is the answer in this old, old story about a very special chicken. With only one eye, one leg and one wing, Half-Chicken sets off to see the world. His adventures take him far and wide, until at last he’s carried straight to the top in this lively, humorous retelling, in Spanish and English, of a traditional Hispanic folktale. This book is set in colonial Mexico in order to provide children with a glimpse of that period of history.
by Alma Flor Ada
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 3 – 7
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-1481429009
In this collection of stories, Alma Flor Ada offers inspiring reflections on a unique childhood and the island where she grew up. Told through the eyes of a child, they bring a whole world to life: the blind great-grandmother who never went to school, but whose wisdom and generosity overflowed to those around her; the hired hand Samoné, whose love for music overcame all difficulties; the beloved dance teacher, who helped sustain young Alma Flor through a miserable year in school; her Uncle Medardo, who bravely flew airplanes; and more, including five stories that are brand new to this collection.
by Alma Flor Ada
Amazon Recommended Grade Level: 1 – 2
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 978-0399228322
Jordi lives a solitary life on a barren and rocky hillside. Things begin to changing after a terrible thunderstorm when he finds a most unusual friend, a star reflected on a pond by his house. Inspired by his love for this unexpected friend, he sets about finding ways to enhance the pond and its surroundings. Before he knows it, the entire mountainside has changed. This book was inspired by a landscape where two different mountains (one green and one dry) faced each other. It also encompasses the author’s beliefs: beauty is all around us, and love is the strongest energy.
by Ralph E. Rodriguez
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0823279241
Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. “LATINX LITERATURE UNBOUND” frees Latinx literature from critical assumptions about identity and theme, arguing there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature and that genre may be a more durable category for analysis. It suggests news ways we might study the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.
by Rafael Sánchez
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0823263653
Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. “DANCING JACOBINS” apprehends that trope not just as the projection of postcolonial elites fearful of the popular sectors but also as a symptom of a historical predicament: the cyclical insistence with which the subaltern populations menacingly return to the nation’s public spaces. Focused on Venezuela but relevant to all of Latin America, it investigates the “monumental governmentality” that began to take shape in Venezuela at the time of independence.
by Suzanne Bost
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0823230846
Following the contemporary movement away from the fixed categories of identity politics toward a more fluid conception of the intersections between identities and communities, “ENCARNACIÓN” analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity. The works of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Ana Castillo, in particular, enable us to examine how identities shift and intersect with others through processes of “incarnation.” Since the 1980s, critics have equated these writers with Chicana feminist identity politics. This critical trend, however, has been unable to account for these writers’ increasing emphasis on bodies that are sick, disabled, permeable, and, oftentimes, mystical.
Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa
With additional research by Mario Torres
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0823260799
“BEYOND THE SUPERSQUARE,” which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians and curators whose research examines architecture and urban design practices in the region during a significant period of the twentieth century. The essays in this collection reveal how the heroic visions and utopian ideals popular in architectural discourse during the modernist era wound up bearing complicated legacies for Latin America—the consequences of which are evident in what are vastly uneven economic conditions, as well as socially disparate societies found throughout the region today.
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