It's hard to "celebrate" when one of our communities is suffering.
On Sept. 18, hurricane Fiona devastated the island of Puerto Rico and its population of more than 3 million people.
Puerto Rico is home (and ancestral home) to many ISU Latinx students plus staff and faculty. Puerto Ricans comprise one of the largest groups of Latinx in the U.S.
The entire island was without electricity, and many still remain without electricity, running water, and shelter. Communities across the entire island have suffered unimaginable damage. Here are a few links listing ways that you can help.
Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-speaking US
The Works of John Leguizamo
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
American Chica: Dos mundos, una infancia
¡Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets
Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials
Ana Mendieta: Traces
Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory
Unaccompanied
The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the US
Borderlands: The New Mestiza=la Frontera
Moving Beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies
In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities
The Art of Exile
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Vanishing Points / Puntos de Fuga: Contemporary Salvadoran Prose
Culture and Customs of el Salvador
Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question
X/ex/exis
Y No Se lo Trago la Tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the ethnic core
Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico
Race and Identity in Hispanic America: The White, the Black, and the Brown
Mestizos Come Home! : Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity
Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption
Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
Culture and Customs of Honduras
Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City
Conquistadora
Dominicana
Culture and Customs of Nicaragua
Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of US Puerto Ricans
Coming up Cuban
Her Body and Other Parties
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
When I Was Puerto Rican
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Culture and Customs of the Dominican Republic
Every Day We Get More Illegal
Silent Dancing : A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice
El Tapiz de Abuela
U.S. Central Americans
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Catrachos: Poems
Chasing the Sun
The King Is Always above the People
Monkey Boy
San Juan Noir
Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora
White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, and Writing
Knitting the Fog
Welcome to our Latinx Heritage Month 2022 Online Exhibit!
This online exhibit presents a focus on the national theme of "Unidos: Inclusivity" with a selection of recent Latinx books on various topics. Streaming videos are also included; videos come from one of the library's streaming video platforms, as well as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Inside the Parks Library lobby and Fireplace Reading Room you'll find these and other Latinx books on exhibit. Enjoy browsing the books and resources both in the Library and on this online guide!
About LHM: The observation of Latinx Heritage Month began in 1968 under President Lyndon Johnson. The initial observation was for one week only, which was then called Hispanic Heritage Week. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan extended the observation to last 30 days, signing into law the period from September 15 through October 15 to be known as Hispanic Heritage Month. The intent of the Heritage Month is to recognize and celebrate the many contributions of Latinx to the United States.
Why does the celebration straddle two months? The original legislation that founded Hispanic Heritage Week targeted the week that included September 15 and 16, as these two dates are the anniversaries of independence from Spain for five Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, all on September 15) and for Mexico's independence from Spain on September 16.
This exhibit created by Dan Coffey, Tim Panages, and Susan Vega García of the ISU Library's DEI Committee.
