| Rodolfo F. Acuña |
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Rodolfo F. Acuña, the founding chair of Chicano Studies at then San Fernando Valley State -- the largest Chicano Studies Department in the United States with 30 tenured professors -- has authored 19 books, three of which received the Gustavus Myers Award for the Outstanding Book on Race Relations in North America. Acuña has received the Distinguished Scholar Award, National Association for Chicano Studies, the Emil Freed Award for Community Service, Southern California Social Science Library, the Founder's Award for Community Service from the Liberty Hill Foundation among others. Black Issues In Higher Education selected Acuña one of the “100 Most Influential Educators of the 20th Century. Among his best-known books are Occupied America: A History of Chicanos 6th edition (Longman, 2007); Sometimes There is No Other Side: Essays on Truth and Objectivity (Notre Dame, 1998); Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles. (Verso Press, 1996), US Latinos: An Inquiry (Greenwood Press, 2003), Community Under Siege (UCLA, 1984), The Sonoran Strongman (University of Arizona, 1974). His most recent works include Corridors of Migration (Greenwood Press, 2008). In the Trenches of Academe is in progress. Acuña has also written three children’s books and has another book in production and authored more than 160 academic and public articles in addition to over 140 book reviews. As an activist scholar he has been a leading voice in the Mexican American community. |
Featuring:
| Larry Keough |
Larry Keough’s new children’s book, Dirty Dan, is a fun adventure for children ages 3-7 set in the Old West featuring hero Tom Gantz, damsel in distress Sally Blake and villain Dirty Dan. The book features colorful illustrations and a bonus CD that children can sing along with while reading the book. A resident of El Cajon, Keough has written original songs for two children’s’ albums. His first book Fragilly was published in 2008. Besides his career as an author, Keough has been a performer in San Diego for the past 20 years as a juggler, mime and musician. He teaches guitar and songwriting to elementary schoolchildren at the Explorer School where he’s produced six CD’s of kids writing and singing songs for two children’s albums. Keough, along with partner Jerry Hager form the duo, Music With A Twist of Mime. Together they have performed for over 20 years with Young Audiences of San Diego, a local nonprofit arts education organization. They are also a mainstay at the San Diego County Fair. Dirty Dan is illustrated by John Wismont who has produced illustrations for Disneyland, Sea World, the San Diego Zoo, IBM and Mattel among many other companies. Keough is a graduate of San Diego State University with a B.A. degree in Recreation Administration with an emphasis in Therapeutics. He also has an A.A. in Dramatic Arts from San Diego City College. Dirty Dan is available locally at La Mesa-Readers Inc., a children’s bookstore. To order Dirty Dan or Fragilly, visit www.fragilly.com or e-mail Larry Keough at starrmim@aol.com. |
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