Hispanic Heritage Month: Books for Adults

Updated August 16, 2024
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Decoding "Despacito" : an oral history of Latin music
Cobo, Leila
Paper Book
A behind the scenes look at the music that is currently the soundtrack of the globe, reported on and written by Leila Cobo, Billboard's VP of Latin Music and the world's ultimate authority on popular Latin music. Decoding "Despacito" tracks the stories behind the biggest...
Finding Latinx : in search of the voices redefining Latino identity
Ramos, Paola
Paper Book
Latinos across the United States are redefining identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many-Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns-are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the...
Our America : a Hispanic history of the United States
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.
Paper Book
An eminent scholar finds a new American history in the Hispanic past of our diverse nation. The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view...
Latinoland : a portrait of America's largest and least understood minority
Arana, Marie (Writer)
Paper Book
"A perfect representation of Latino diversity" (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in "a work of prophecy, sympathy,...

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