Americans All: Breaking The Color Barrier Part 1

February 23, 2017
Americans All: Breaking The Color Barrier Part 1
30 Minutes
Americans All: Breaking The Color Barrier Part 1

Feb 23 2017 |

/

Show Notes

Lowriders in Space

30 Minutes spotlights excerpts from the 2016 Tucson Festival of Books. Americans All: Breaking the Color Barrier in Main Stream Publishing features authors Cathy Camper and Meg Medina discussing their processes, challenges, and successes in making literature more representative and accessible.

Cuban American Meg Medina is the award winning author of “Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass”, picture books, and young adult novels. Arab American Cathy Camper is a Portland based librarian who has written “Lowriders in Space” and other picture books. This has been part 1 of a 2 part series.

This panel discussion took place at the Nuestras Raices pavillion and is a program of the Pima County Public Library in 2016.

Recorded and produced by Amanda Shauger.

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Other Episodes

Episode

August 04, 2019 00:26:35
Episode Cover

What Color Is The Future Part 1

In “What Color Is the Future?”, award-winning Latinx SciFi/fantasy writers Lilliam Rivera and Daniel José Older merge urban dreams with the dystopian world order....

Listen

Episode

May 18, 2014
Episode Cover

Pictures and Words Part 2

Today on 30 Minutes- a special broadcast from the 2014 Tucson Festival of books. The topic is Pictures and Words. We join award winning...

Listen

Episode

September 13, 2020 00:29:04
Episode Cover

Pima County Sheriff Candidates Napier and Nanos

The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is a law enforcement agency that serves the unincorporated areas of Pima County and works in partnership with our...

Listen