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Pages. 276. Awards. 2018 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. ISBN. 978-080700593-4. An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a book by Paul Ortiz published in 2018 by Beacon Press in its ReVisioning American History series. Ortiz writes in the introduction: This book draws from the voices and experiences of people ...
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory.She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work.
The grievance studies affair was the project of a team of three authors— Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose —to highlight what they saw as poor scholarship and erosion of standards in several academic fields. Taking place over 2017 and 2018, their project entailed submitting bogus papers to academic journals on topics ...
These existential words can spark controversy, and this is the case with the term “Latinx.” Some people feel this is a word that denotes inclusivity; for others, it is an attempt at linguistic ...
Still, the books written by Latinx authors on the market today are vibrant and full of power. They represent different ethnicities and life experiences, proving once again that the Latin community ...
Latinx is a term for a group identity used to describe individuals in the United States who have Latin American roots. [ 12 ][ 13 ] Other names for this social category include Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latine, and Latin@ (combining the letters "a" and "o" into the character @). [ 14 ][ 15 ] Another term is simply "Latin", which by itself is of ...
Black studies or Africana studies (with nationally specific terms, such as African American studies and Black Canadian studies), is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of the peoples of the African diaspora and Africa. The field includes scholars of African-American, Afro ...
The exact origins of the term "Latinx" are not clear, but many attribute its creation to LGBT members of Hispanic community to avoid reference to gender. "Latine" is a less common suggestion for a ...