FROM OUR LAND TO OUR LAND
Distinguished Mexican American writer, Luis J. Rodriguez, meditates on the place of Xicanx culture in what he sees as a sick and increasingly fragmented global society. Continue reading FROM OUR LAND TO OUR LAND
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A Letter to My “Academic Mama”
by Irene Sanchez
From: Inside Higher ED
Irene Sanchez pays tribute to the person who saw something in her on the days when she couldn’t see it in herself.
Dear Academic Mama,
I am here. I am still here. I said this today after thinking about how hard life has been after I finished my Ph.D. I emailed you to ask you for a letter of recommendation again today and remembered how many times, for many years, I would come to your office for a meeting and how I wish you were here.
Los Angeles Literature 