Alvaro Huerta

alvarohuerta6@gmail.com

For those of us who write book reviews (or plan to do so or actually read
them!), check out this brilliant review by a fierce Chicana writer, Myriam
Gurba, exposing (without compromise or apologies) the racist publishing
industry at the elite level, where Latinas/os in general and Mexicans
in particular--my clan--continue to be depicted as savages, etc., by
white authors and other self-hating brown writers.

"Pendeja, You Ain’t Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake-Ass Social Justice

Literature"
https://tropicsofmeta.com/2019/12/12/pendeja-you-aint-steinbeck-my-
bronca-with-fake-ass-social-justice-
literature/?fbclid=IwAR2aGwVAcmVXFrijdcIaG6d-
ewrluW3vTPsdyKS6IhiQXumnVfaQ4-Ulawk

Check out related interviews by Gurba and other Latina/o writers and
advocates for social justice among the white-dominated publishing
industry...
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/5/american_dirt
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/800964001/digging-into-american-dirt
https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/01/26/myriamgurba/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1LV91tp83Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djN0XfDOtE0

¡Viva Gurba!

Cordially,
Álvaro
P.S. If I, like the author of American Dirt, get a six-figure payday for
my forthcoming book on Mexican immigrants and their social networks in
the informal economy, I might "temper" my criticism towards the
elite publishing industry. If I must, I'll change the topic of my yet-to-be-
published book to Irish immigrants, since, I, too, must have a relative of
Irish origin somewhere in my genealogy. I think they helped my people against
the American imperialist invasion of Mexico during the mid-1800s? There's the
link!
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Álvaro Huerta, Ph.D. | Asst. Prof. | Academic Senate
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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