ASU Book Group: ‘MeXicana Roots and Routes’ edited by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Anita Huizar-Hernández
Event description
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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the ASU Book Group's September 2026 reading selection is the nonfiction collection, “MeXicana Roots and Routes: Listening to People, Places, and Pasts” edited by ASU scholars Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez (School of Applied Sciences and Arts) and Anita Huizar-Hernández (School of International Letters and Cultures and Hispanic Research Center).
Fonseca-Chávez is also an assistant vice provost at the ASU Polytechnic campus and Huizar-Hernández is associate director, publisher and managing editor of Bilingual Press | Editorial Bilingüe at the Hispanic Research Center.
Anita Huizar-Hernández will be present at the Book Group meeting.
The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly from noon to 1 p.m. Please register to attend.
Haven't read the book? Come anyway! At least one author is always present.
Synopsis
In “MeXicana Roots and Routes,” established and emerging scholars draw upon their rootedness in the U.S. Southwest and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The meXicana contributors use personal and scholarly inquiry to discuss what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and explore and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes.
About the book group
The ASU Book Group meetings and selections for 2026-2027 are:
- Sep. 24 - “MeXicana Roots and Routes” edited by Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Anita Huizar-Hernández
- Oct. 22 - “A Harvest of Furies” by Hayden Casey
- Nov. 18 - Channeling Emily Dickinson with Rosemarie Dombrowski
- Feb. 25 - "Tumbleweed Underworld" by Eduardo Pagán
- Mar. 25 - “Eve” by B.K. O'Connor
- Apr. 15 - “The Garden” by Sir Jonathan Bate
The ASU Book Group is sponsored as a community outreach initiative and hosted in partnership between the Department of English and ASU Library.