On Exhibit: Hispanic Heritage Month

In collaboration with PLU’s Hispanic and Latino Studies Program, the Mortvedt Library has organized an exhibit in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. This exhibit includes an art display, featuring works by prominent Chicanx artists, and a selection of literary and academic texts by Hispanic/Latinx authors.

National Hispanic Heritage Month (Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana) is celebrated from September 15 to October 15 in the United States to recognize the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the country.

The posters on display are part of a series of Latinx Art Teaching Posters: 

• Breaking the Fast, 1968, by artist Carlos Francisco Jackson
• Steve Biko, by artists Jesus Barraza & Dignidad Rebelde
• Frida Kahlo (September), from Galería de la Raza 1975 Calendario, by artist Rupert García
• Not One More Deportation, by artists Ernesto Yerena Montejano & Shepard Fairey
• Sun Mad, by artist Ester Hernandez

List of books on display:

• From bomba to hip-hop : Puerto Rican culture and Latino identity
• The other Latin : writing against a singular identity
• Dreaming in Cuban : a novel
• Imagining LatinX intimacies : connecting queer stories, spaces, and sexualities
• AfroLatinas and LatiNegras : culture, identity, and struggle from an intersectional perspective
• We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? : stories
• The new Americans? : immigration, protest, and the politics of Latino identity
• How the Garcia girls lost their accents
• Translocas : the politics of Puerto Rican drag and trans performance
• Santo! : varieties of Latino/a spirituality
• Latinx writing Los Angeles : nonfiction dispatches from a decolonial rebellion
• Of forests and fields : Mexican labor in the Pacific Northwest
• Olga dies dreaming
• Tales from la vida : a Latinx comics anthology
• Cantoras
• Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez : an autobiography.
• The five wounds
• Under the feet of Jesus
• Cool salsa : bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States
• Borderlands : La frontera the new Mestiza
• Aloud : voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
• The house on Mango Street
• Real women have curves
• Down these mean streets