On #DignidadLiteraria and American Dirt, Old and New

Below is a collection of articles that respond to American Dirt, consider the injustices of the publishing industry's Big Five, and highlight books by Chicanx and Latinx writers.

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A reading list assembled from these articles:

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
My Time Among the Whites by Jennine Capó Crucet
The Five Acts of Diego León by Alex Espinoza
Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith
Dancing with Butterflies by Reyna GrandeMañana Means Heaven by Tim Z. Hernandez

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga

Carved in Bone by Michael Nava

Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

Ocotillo Dreams by Melinda Palacio

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea

Pocho by José Antonio Villarreal
Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano

Unaccompanied by Javier Zamora