Join us April 13-14 at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books (booth 901) with our KCRW friends!

We’ll be selling student authored publications including the Ethnic Studies publications from students at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights (where we just opened a Writers’ Room!)

Ethnic Studies as Roosevelt

Roxana Dueñas, Eduardo López, and Jorge López are three groundbreaking teachers who created the Ethnic Studies course “Boyle Heights and Me” for ninth grade students at Roosevelt High School. Using the themes of resistance, resilience, and re-imagination, students analyze the root causes of oppression while taking a closer look at their own identities and their Boyle Heights community. “I didn’t learn about this stuff until college,” is a common refrain from 826LA volunteers who help ninth graders at Roosevelt High School write this book of personal essays in response to the school’s Ethnic Studies curriculum each year. The youth writing and tutoring organization has worked with Roosevelt since 2007. As topics including racism, immigration, and gentrification become increasingly prominent in national media, Roosevelt students are creating powerful reminders that no one is better equipped than them to tell their stories. The resulting books are shared with incoming classes and in education programs at universities nationwide, including Harvard.

When & Where
April 13-14
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Booth 901