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Posts tagged "Sandra Cisneros"

Writers Poniatowska and Cisneros, groundbreaking women together in Chicago

Mexican writer, Elena Poniatowska, and Chicana author Sandra Cisneros are speaking together in Chicago this Wednesday night at DePaul University. This is a unique opportunity to see two amazing women writers. Their conversation titled, “Echoes of a Revolution” is to commemorate the centennial of the Mexican Revolution and the bi-centennial of Mexican Independence. Poniatowksa lives... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
May 12, 2010 at 8:52 am
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According to the U.S. Census, I can be Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Mexican-American. But I'm also "some other race."

I am “some other race.” That’s what I checked on the U.S. Census form I mailed in last week. You see according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the races you can select from on the form are white, black, American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, (for which they provide a long list, including Chinese, Filipino, Japanese... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
April 12, 2010 at 2:58 pm
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Sandra Cisneros honors her mother for Day of the Dead

A bottle of perfume, massage balls and a tiny figurine of Dumbo. These were some of the favorite objects of author Sandra Cisneros‘ mother. And they are integrated into an ofrenda, or an altar, that she built for her for the Dead of the Dead exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago... Read more »
By Teresa Puente,
September 27, 2009 at 11:40 pm
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