Containing essays, memoir, short stories, and poems, The Selena Reader: Remembering the Queen of Tejano memorializes a beloved singer while also exploring the politics and personal meaning of what we remember. Anthology editors Larissa Mercado-López and Yndalecio Hinojosa will talk about Selena and why her life and career have had such an impact, how our love of celebrities can create personal change, and the importance of sharing culture on a larger stage.
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Larissa M. Mercado-López is a professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies at California State University, Fresno. She is the editor of multiple anthologies on Latinx literature, Chicanx children’s literature, and the life and work of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. She is the coeditor of The Selena Reader: Remembering the Queen of Tejano.
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Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he served as the associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts. He is a coeditor of Open Words: Access and English Studies and of Bordered Writers: Latinx Identities and Literacy Practices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Yndalecio joins the Book Festival to discuss The Selena Reader: Remembering the Queen of Tejano, which he coedited with Larissa M. Mercado-López.
Marco Cervantes is an Associate Professor in the Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). His work explores themes of Black and Brown solidarity and the role of music and performance in cultural convergences. His scholarship has been published in the American Quarterly; Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society; and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. He is the coeditor of Entre el Sur y el Norte: Decolonizing Education through Critical Readings of Chicana/x/o, Mexican, and Indigenous Music. He is currently working on a book titled Black and Brown Playlist: Musical Convergences in Texas Soul and Hip-Hop, forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. Adding to his academic work, Cervantes is a performing artist known as Mexstep and a founding member of the hip-hop group Third Root.
