Americans All: Breaking The Color Barrier Part 2

February 26, 2017
Americans All: Breaking The Color Barrier Part 2
30 Minutes
Americans All: Breaking The Color Barrier Part 2

Feb 26 2017 |

/

Show Notes

30 Minutes continues with 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 discu
ssing their processes, challenges, and successes in making literature more representative and accessible.Lowriders in Space

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 2 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 06, 2018 00:28:13
Episode Cover

Dr. Tani Sanchez Erased But Not Forgotten Part 1

Today on 30 Minutes we’ll hear remarks made at the 2018 Tucson Festival of Books at the Nuestras Raices stage, which was curated by...

Listen

Episode

July 26, 2015
Episode Cover

Detained and Deported Part 1

Today 30 Minutes features excerpts from the closing celebration of Raices Taller‘s July 2015 exhibition “Chubasco” – a tribute to Tucson’s annual monsoon season....

Listen

Episode

June 04, 2017
Episode Cover

The Gwich’in Steering Committee on Our Arctic Refuge

Bernadette Demientieff, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Amanda Shauger, James Nathaniel, Jr. discussed Our Arctic Refuge The Gwich’in Nation has relied on the area known as...

Listen