Nicolás Kanellos has been professor at the University of Houston since 1980. He is founding publisher of the noted Hispanic literary journal The Americas Review (formerly Revista Chicano-Riqueña) and the nation's oldest and most esteemed Hispanic publishing house, Arté Público Press. Arté Público Press is the largest nonprofit publisher of literature in the United States. Recognized for his scholarly achievements, Dr. Kanellos is the recipient of the 1996 Denali Press Award of the American Library Association, the 1989 American Book Award-Publisher/Editor Category, the 1989 award from the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, the 1988 Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature presented by the White House as well as various fellowships and other recognitions. His monograph, A History of Hispanic Theater in the United States. Origins to 1940 (1990), received three book awards, including that of the Southwest Council on Latin American Studies. Dr. Kanellos is the director of a major national research program, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage of the United States, whose objective is to identify, preserve, study, and make accessible tens of thousands of literary documents of those regions that have become the United States from the colonial period to 1960. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Dr. Kanellos to the National Council on the Humanities. In 1996, he became the first Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature at the University of Houston.
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THIRTY MILLION STRONG
Many Americans are taught that the first people to ÒsettleÓ North America were the English colonists in Jamestown, Virginia. On the contrary, Hispanic peoples developed a culture and civilization in North America that predated the English by centuries. Over time, however, a misconception about the role of Hispanic peoples and their vast contribution to American culture has persisted, a result of ideology, ignorance, and government policy. In this controversial and lively book, Nicolás Kanellos chronicles and analyzes the changing images of Hispanics in the United States from the age of exploration and conquest to the present, reclaiming the Hispanic heritage in American culture. Part history, part manifesto, this book challenges our notions of the Hispanic peoples, giving us a perspective into the great contributions this group has made to American society. Dr. Nicolás Kanellos is Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature at the University of Houston.
He is the founder of the nation's oldest and most esteemed Hispanic publishing house, Arté Público Press. The recipient of many awards, he is also the founding publisher of The Americas Review, a noted Hispanic literary journal and has written several books on Hispanic heritage. Dr. Kanellos lives in Houston.
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