LATINO HERITAGE MONTH approaches (Sep. 15 - Oct. 15) and we see the rise of both pride and solidarity, as well as outright resistance to our celebrating our culture, language, and feelings of pride for who we are and where we have come from. In Oxnard, Califas, the celebration of Latino history and culture is being held for the first time.
NYTIMES: The child of migrant workers and now a professor at the University of California, Riverside, Herrera began to publish and perform verse in the late 1960s and early ’70s, amid the Chicano cultural ferment of Los Angeles and San Diego; he has been, and should be, admired for his portrayals of Chicano life. Yet he is no mere recorder of social conditions.
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