Dr. Gabriela Baeza Ventura
University of Houston
Arte Púbilco Press
The Latinx Legacy: Building Our Future
The Account (La Relación), 1542
Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610
Gaspar Perez de Villagra
El Misisipi, 1808-1810
One of the first Spanish-language publications in US
(New Orleans)
El Mulato, 1854
José Martí (Cuban)
María Amparo Ruiz De Burton, Californio writings
C. Loyal 1872; 1885
Pablo de la Guerra, Californio landholder
People v. de la Guerra
“Strangers in their native land”
Lucía (Lucy) González Parsons
American Labor organizer
Anarchist
Emilia Casanova (1832-1897)
La Liga de las Hijas de Cuba, revolutionary women’s club
Luisa Capetillo
Labor organizer, writer and anarchist for worker and
women’s rights, 1907 and 1916
Lucas Guevara,1914
Alirio Díaz Guerra, Columbian immigrant
First Novel of Immigration in the US
Mexican Immigration Novels
Conrado Espinoza (1926) / Daniel Venegas (1928)
María Cristina Mena
Role of Latinas in US Society, Early XX
Pelonas and Evas (Flappers and Eves)
María Cristina Mena
The Century Magazine and American Magazine
1913-1916
Leonor Villegas de Magnón
Mexican Revolution, La Cruz Blanca
Narciso Martinez &
Santiago Almeida
Jovita González1st Female And Mexican President Of The Texas Folklore
Society 1930-1932
“Mexicans Are NOT A Social Problem”
Américo Paredes
With A Pistol in His Hand
Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration
project, a collection of narratives from NM 1930-1940
Carmita Landestoy, Dominican exile
¡Yo también acuso! (1946)
AMERICAN G.I.
FORUM
EMMA TENAYUCA
Antonia Pantoja
Founder of ASPIRA program for Puerto Rican youth 1960s
Enriqueta Vásquez
El Grito del Norte, Chicano newspaper from NM
1968-1972
Delilah Montoya, Chicana, photographer
Title IX, Civil Rights Act
Nuyorican
Literature
Liga
Puertorriqueña e
Hispana
Nicholasa Mohr
First Hispanic published by a major commercial publisher,
1973
Nuyorican Poets Café, 1973
Sandra María Esteves, Miguel Piñero, Miguel Algarín
Tato Laviera 1950-2013
Victor Villaseñor, Chicano
First Hispanic bestseller (1991)
Lucha Corpi
1st Chicana
Detective, 1990s
Judith Ortiz Cofer
One of the First Creative Writing Latino Faculty
Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana, fronteriza
Queer writing
Dolores Prida, Cuban American playwright and writer
NY Daily News and Latina magazines
Josefina López, playwright and funder of
Casa 0101 Theater
Pura Belpré, First PR librarian for NY Public Library
Created bilingual story hours, Span-language books
and traditions in the 1920s
Pat Mora, poet and children’s book author
Founder of Childrens’ Day/Book Day
Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
René Colato Laínez, Salvadoran American
Gwen Zepeda
Houston’s first Poet Laureate
Gloria Velásquez
Roosevelt High School Series
Carolyn Dee Flores
Illustrator
We Need Diverse Books Inaugural Mentor
Luis Valdez
Chicano playwright, Founder of Teatro Campesino
National Medal of Arts
Sandra Cisneros
MacArthur Fellow and National Medal of Arts Awardee
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