“With this collection of complex and articulate essays, Lorraine López and Blas Falconer dare to unpack what mainstream American media and culture have been forcing into a single neat package for decades: Latino. A timely manifesto!”—Rigoberto González, editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing
“Güau! Finally, here comes an assemblage of personal viewpoints that isn't afraid to unsettle the complacent, reductionist picture of who Latinos are, or better, what ‘lazy thinking’ wants us to be. Maybe The Other Latin@ will foster a new era, bringing us out of the ghetto that is our own mind. Anigüey, it isn’t an exaggeration to say that I’ve been waiting for this book for my entire life (and even longer). That’s because I live—I let myself live—in the ‘o’ of other. Thanks to Falconer and López, now that ‘o’ might also stand for openness.”—Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language and general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
“An essential and vibrant collection of essays that explore the plurality as well as the differences found in Latino voices and their journeys into their past.”—Marjorie Agosín, author of Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir
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