# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ASU Book Group: ‘MeXicana Roots and Routes’ edited by V. Fonseca-Chávez and A. Huizar-Hernández
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-07:00)
- **Event Description**: 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.

The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly from noon to 1 p.m. in Hayden Library room 101 and online. Please register to attend.

Haven't read the book? Come anyway! Authors are 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.

ASU students, faculty and staff can access an e-book copy of “MeXicana Roots and Routes” from the ASU Library.

About the book group: The ASU Book Group is sponsored as a community outreach initiative and hosted in partnership between the Department of English and ASU Library.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/tempe/asu-book-group-‘mexicana-roots-and-routes-edited-by-v-fonseca-chávez-and-a-huizar-hernández/200030623950928
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit, science-fair
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Tempe
- **state**: AZ
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Charles Trumbull Hayden Library
- **lat**: 33.418913198644
- **long**: -111.93517564613
- **full address**: Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, 300 E. Orange Mall,Tempe, Arizona, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is ASU Book Group:  MeXicana Roots and Routes  edited by V. Fonseca-Chavez and A. Huizar-Hernandez being held?
  - **A:** ASU Book Group:  MeXicana Roots and Routes  edited by V. Fonseca-Chavez and A. Huizar-Hernandez takes place on Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Thu, 24 Sep, 2026 at 01:00 pm at Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, 300 E. Orange Mall,Tempe, Arizona, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing ASU Book Group:  MeXicana Roots and Routes  edited by V. Fonseca-Chavez and A. Huizar-Hernandez?
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