Over the past decade, both the Hispanic population in the U.S. and college enrollment increased dramatically. With more Latina women attending college than ever before, popular media depictions of Hispanic young adults seem to lag behind the complex reality of their often unique experiences in higher education.
Writer Jennifer De Leon , who teaches in the Boston Public Schools and at the Grub Street Creative Writing Center, joined Boston Public Radio to discuss her recently published anthology, Wise Latinas . The book features essays written by several prominent Latina women about their college experiences.
De Leon, who is Guatemalan and holds degrees from Connecticut College, the University of San Francisco and the University of Massachusetts-Boston, said she views this anthology as less a creative project and more of a form of activism to dispel the predominant stereotypes of Latin American women. READ MORE
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