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Yesterday, I linked to an essay in the SF Chronicle by Ilan Stavans, in which he criticized the Library of America for not including Latinos in its two-volume anthology on civil rights. Earlier today, I received this email from Carol Polsgrove, who served on the advisory board for Reporting Civil Rights:
The reason Library of America’s two volume anthology Reporting Civil Rights did not include Latinos was that this volume was devoted explicitly, as the dust jacket says, to “the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and equal rights.” Let’s hope the Library of America takes Ilan Stavans’ criticism to heart, however, and publishes future volumes that expand our too limited view of American history.
Dr. Polsgrove is also a professor of journalism at Indiana University.
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.