[For Cinco de Mayo, a series on a handful of impressive and inspiring Mexican American voices. Leading up to a special Guest Post from an inspiring young scholar and voice!]
I’ve made the
case in a number of prior posts and pieces for why we should better remember and
read the Mexican American novelist and activist Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton. So
for this post I’ll direct you to a handful of them:
1)
This
post for the American Writers Museum blog on why we should all read her
novel The Squatter and the Don (1885);
2)
This
one for HuffPost on why Donald Trump in particular should read it;
3)
This
one for CNN framing Ruiz de Burton as part of my book We the People’s arguments on exclusion and inclusion in American
history;
4)
This
one as part of a trio of Saturday
Evening Post Considering History columns on Mexican American stories and
texts;
5)
And this
one for the blog, pairing Squatter
with George Washington Cable’s The
Grandissimes (1881).
Next Cinco de
Mayo post tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Mexican American figures, voices, histories and stories you’d highlight?
No comments:
Post a Comment