Felicia Ortiz keeps her 25-12 months-old reproduction of “Occupied america: a historical past of Chicanos” in a unique spot on her bookcase.
The e-book, which turned into assigned analyzing all the way through her sophomore 12 months of high college in New Mexico, describes the Mexican-American experience in the context of race, category division and social movements. It turned into the handiest assigned reading that resonated together with her as much as that aspect, and devoid of it, she could now not have risen to president of the Nevada State Board of training, Ortiz referred to.
“It lit this fire …