Category: Books
Searching for the Real Pancho Villa
LatinaLista Who was Pancho Villa? Savior or outlaw? Saint or sinner? One thing is certain. Francisco (Pancho) Villa is synonymous with the Mexican Revolution and a leader whose notoriety crossed borders. Whether he was working the fields as a sharecropper or outsmarting his opponents by placing sombreros in strategic places among the hills surrounding a [...]
Chicanas Take Many Roads to Achieving Success in Public Service
LatinaLista — When Guadalupe “Lupe” Valdez won the election for sheriff of Dallas County, Texas in 2004, it was a milestone on several fronts. It wasn’t enough that Lupe was a Latina (a daughter of migrant farmworkers from Mexico), a woman and a lesbian. What sent her into the history books was that she was [...]
Being Successful Means “Keeping the Faith”
LatinaLista — These days, associating corporate America with Christian values sounds more like an oxymoron than a plan for Latinas to achieve professional success. Yet, Cubana-Latina and corporate executive veteran, Ana Mollinedo Mims, lays the blueprint for Latinas to follow in achieving professional success without compromising their values in her new book “Keeping the Faith: [...]
Anthology Weaves a Collection of Strong Latino Voices and Poetic Vision
LatinaLista — Editor Francisco Aragon has successfully woven together a collection rich in tone, style, and depth of topics, ranging from the more immediate and observational to political and symbolic in The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry published by the University of Arizona Press. Moving forward from the strong poetic predecessors of After Aztlan and [...]
Crafting memories into memorable stories
Lupe Ruiz-Flores is a children’s book author who discovered it’s never too late to tell a good story. LatinaLista — Being a published writer was Lupe’s life-long dream. Growing up with little money, especially to buy such luxury items as books, Lupe’s earliest inspiration for storytelling was from listening to the stories her father [...]
Getting to the root of why so many Latino children are out of shape and gordo
LatinaLista — A landmark study released by the American Journal of Public Health just days before the close of 2006 revealed an alarming trend: Latino pre-schoolers are twice as likely as white or black children to be overweight or obese. The researchers couldn’t explain it, but two Latinas may very well hold the answer in [...]
