![]() And Chicanx authors suffer marginalization in the US market. If you don't know this, Mexican writers are horribly underpaid. Latina or no, Cummins certainly isn't Mexican or Chicana. Just five years ago, she was calling herself white. In fact, until very recently, she didn't lay claim to the Latinx heritage that comes to her through a Puerto Rican grandmother. Let me start with the obvious: Cummins has never lived even within five hundred miles of Mexico or the border. ![]() And it's harmful, appropriating, inaccurate, trauma-porn melodrama. ![]() Cummins received a seven-figure advance for this book. Jeanine Cummins' American Dirt is a novel about a Mexican bookseller who has to escape cartel-related violence with her son, fleeing to the US. Here's the press conference announcing the commitment to Latinx equity the publisher made: Īnd here's an article from LIBRARY JOURNAL about how our efforts have transformed Flatiron / Macmillan. ![]() watch this video: Īlso, as part of the #DignidadLiteraria team, I met with Flatiron / Macmillan. ![]() You're free to talk amongst yourselves, however!įor a deeper, nuanced conversation from a panel of Mexican American poets, professors, bloggers, librarians, poets laureate. BECAUSE SOME OF YOU ATTACKING ME IN THE COMMENTS ARE INCAPABLE OF CLICKING ON MY NAME TO LEARN THIS. ![]()
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