Greenwood’s Latino Chronology, written by Latino American Experience Advisory Board member D.H. Figueredo, has been named a New York Library Association Best Reference for 2007. The 170-page Chronology serves as the basis for LAE’s Timeline feature. Below librarian and scholar D.H. Figueredo shares his thoughts on receiving this prestigious award for the second time. (He [...]

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Earlier this week, Junot Diaz became the second U.S. Latino to win a Pulitzer prize for fiction for his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The novel had already earned the 2007 National Books Critics Circle Award.
Diaz, 39, was born in the Dominican Republican, and arrived in the U.S. in 1974. He [...]

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