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• Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices From the Latinx Diaspora

  Fennell, Saraciea J.

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  In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora.

• Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico

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  Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Definitely Hispanic

  Growing Up Latino and Celebrating What Unites Us

  James, LeJuan,

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  Perfect for fans of Jane the Virgin’s celebration of Latinidad and Fresh Off the Boat’s situational humor, Definitely Hispanic is a collection of introspective and witty essays by social media influencer and viral phenomenon LeJuan James…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spirit Run

  a 6,000-mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

  Álvarez, Noé,

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  The electrifying debut memoir of a son of working-class Mexican immigrants who fled a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in an Indigenous marathon from Canada to Guatemala, reimagining North America and his place in it.

• The Likeability Trap

  How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are

  Menendez, Alicia,

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  Alicia Menendez is a journalism superstar — she hosts a podcast, Latina to Latina, and a TV show, Amanpour & Company — so when she talks about the obstacles professional women face in the workplace, you know to listen up.

• The More or Less Definitive Guide to Self-Care

  Borges, Anna

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  While oftentimes the conversation around self-care can look a lot like a description of retail therapy — buy a bath bomb, get a mani-pedi, splurge on a fancy dinner! — taking care of ourselves actually encompasses a huge range of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The BreakBeat Poets Vo. 4:

  LatiNext

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  Latinext is the first compiled work to include essays from Latino writers located across the U.S.

• Inventing Latinos

  a New Story of American Racism

  Gómez, Laura E., 1964-

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  In this audacious effort to reframe the often-confused and misrepresented discourse over the Latinx generation‚ Gómez provides essential context for today's most pressing political and public debates—representation‚ voice‚ interpretation‚…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Latinx

  in Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

  Ramos, Paola, 1987-

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  Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them—Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of the Land

  Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo

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  Children of the Land distills the trauma of displacement, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen.

• Once I Was You

  a Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

  Hinojosa, Maria, 1961-

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  An urgent call to fellow Americans to open their eyes to the immigration crisis and understand that it affects us all, this honest and heartrending memoir paints a vivid portrait of how we got here and what it means to be a survivor, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Undocumented Americans

  Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla

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  Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unforgetting

  a Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

  Lovato, Roberto

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  In Unforgetting, Roberto interweaves his father’s complicated history and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life, state violence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States. In doing so he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Movies (And Other Things)

  Serrano, Shea

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  This collection of essays from New York Times best-selling author and Ringer writer Shea Serrano is exactly how it sounds: A list of questions and answers about the movies that have had a long-lasting impact, from Mean Streets and Jurassic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Time Among the Whites

  Crucet, Jennine Capó

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  In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born.

• Inward

  Yung Pueblo (Writer),

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  Diego Perez is a speaker, poet and activist who goes by Yung Pueblo on Instagram, where he has thousands of followers. Inward, his first book, is full of affirmations, mantras and poetry that can help you move through your day with just a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An African American and Latinx History of the United States

  Ortiz, Paul, 1964-

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  Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rain of Gold

  Villaseñor, Victor

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  This is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villaseñor's kin, their spiritual and cultural roots in Mexico, their immigration to California and their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rain of Gold

  Villaseñor, Victor

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  This is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villaseñor's kin, their spiritual and cultural roots in Mexico, their immigration to California and their…Read moreRead more of this annotation