some of marocs stars like gustavo arellano down here on the end and other ones who are up and coming and part of the next generation of chicano authors. one of the things we're trying to tell these kids this morning is they are not alone and the whole world is watching. it is mind blowing and the little surreal in a twilight zone kind of way that we are in this day and age talking about censorship of literature and art and history. let me thank you again for coming. let me introduce everybody. you already know luis, one of my heroes, i tell him on a daily stock, a lot of literature, american literature, walt whitman, and i like to push e e elr elreo, their american literary treasures and both need to be recognized. [applause] >> we are talking about people who are afraid of the word chicano, it is one of those loaded terms nowadays because of the way politics rules but we are talking about american authors. this is american literature. this body of work, these studies, it is american studies. it needs to be recognized and embraced by everybody. we are just like everybody else. that i

some of them are rock stars like luis here and gustavo arellano here on the and other ones that ones that are up-and-coming and part of the next generation of chicano authors. the things we were trying to tell these kids this morning is that they are not alone and the whole world is watching. it's really kind of mind-blowing and surreal in a twilight zone kind of way that we are here this day and age talking about censorship of literature and of arts. and really of history. so let me just thank you again for coming. let the introduce everybody. you guys know luis, and internationally best-selling author. this guy is one of my heroes. i was telling the "arizona daily star" the other day that a lot of american literature courses push walt whitman. i like to push luis because both are american literary treasures and both need to be recognized. [applause] we are talking about people that are afraid of the word chicano and should,. it's one of those loaded terms nowadays because of of the way politics roles that we are talking about american authors. this is american literature. this body