Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 through October 15, during which time we honor the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States and celebrate their heritage and culture. Hispanic Heritage Month, whose roots go back to 1968, begins each year on September 15, the anniversary of independence of five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Mexico, Chile and Belize also celebrate their independence days during this period and Columbus Day (Día de la Raza) is October 12 (observed this year in the U.S. on Monday, October 8).
Hispanic Heritage Month: There’s a PRH Book for That!
By Luis Diaz | October 4 2018 | Humanities & Social Sciences
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady—an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity.
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Poetry
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Poetry
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Puerto Rican Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Legal History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Race / Class / Gender > Race Relations
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An undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton class and a powerful lens on our broken immigration system.
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Memoir
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
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In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Communication > Journalism > News Writing and Reporting
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Non-Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > Introduction to Social Science
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Social Science > Migration Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Family > Sociology of Family
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Institutions > Sociology of Migration
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Student Success and Career Development > Student Success > First-Year Experience
- Professional Studies > Legal and Paralegal Studies > Legal Studies > Civil Rights
- Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics > Geography > Human Geography
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Now fully updated to 2009, this acclaimed history of Latin America tells its turbulent story from Columbus to Chavez. Beginning with the Spanish and Portugese conquests of the New World, it takes in centuries of upheaval, revolution and modernization up to the present day, looking in detail at Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Cuba, and gives an overview of the cultural developments that have made Latin America a source of fascination for the world.
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: Latin America and Caribbean > 1825 through Present
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: Latin America and Caribbean > Ancient / Pre-Columbian
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > Period History: Latin America and Caribbean > European Contact through 1825
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Political Science > Comparative Politics > Latin American Politics
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As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S. border, Cristina García presents a richly diverse cross-cultural conversation.
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: Latin American and Caribbean > Mexican
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Latino American
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Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, and Luisa Valenzuela. The resulting book is a literary tour de force, stories written by women in this hemisphere that speak to cultures throughout the world.
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Women in Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Latino American
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature > Immigrant and Refugee Literature
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Comparative Literature: American > Latino/a and Chicano/a Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – 21st Century
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Fiction
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature – Latino American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature Survey – 1870 to Present
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > American Literature Survey – Colonial to Modern
- Humanities & Social Sciences > English > Literature > World Literature Survey – 17th Century to Present
- Humanities & Social Sciences > History > U.S. History > Latino/a American
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American History
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Literature and Drama
- Humanities & Social Sciences > Interdisciplinary Studies > Race and Ethnic Studies > Latin American Studies
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Written with her trademark lyricism, in these signature pieces the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street shares her transformative memories and reveals her artistic and intellectual influences. Poignant, honest, and deeply moving, A House of My Own is an exuberant celebration of a life lived to the fullest, from one of our most beloved writers.
For the last eight years, I’ve welcomed students to Writing About American Comedy, the class I teach at NYU, with a challenge of sorts. After our introductions and hellos and our perusal of the syllabus, I pop open the portable DVD player attached to my laptop and cue up Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
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