David Parker, Co-Founder of Lived Places Publishing will be participating in a panel on Publishing in Latinx Studies at this year’s Latina/o Studies Association Conference (LSA) in Tempe, AZ on April 20. 

To set up a meeting in advance with David, please EMAIL DAVID directly. 

Taking appointments FRI 19th and SAT 20th April: In-person & online/phone

Location: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

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ABOUT THE SESSION:

Publishing with Latinx Studies Special Series

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About Latina/o Studies Association (LSA):

The Latina/o Studies Association (LSA) is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and cultivating Latino/a/x Studies. The organization arose as a response to a momentum in Latino Studies for creating an autonomous professional space in which to engage current scholarship, exchange pedagogical models, improve mentoring structures, and increase opportunities for professional development. LSA offers those whose research and activism focuses on issues relevant to global Latina/o/x populations opportunities to present their research, exchange ideas in live and virtual interchanges, and build coalitions that further cultivate the field.

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About Lived Places Publishing (LPP)

Lived Places Publishing (LPP) is building a catalog of applied and concise course reading material in interdisciplinary collections. Each title we publish explores the intersection of identity and place, humanizing an issue through lived experience(s).

Our model is constructed with libraries in mind:

• DRM-free, unlimited user access, and unrestricted PDF download of titles
• Whole ebook interlibrary loan (ILL) to one partner institution at a time
• Affordable, perpetual access pricing (single, one-time fee) with region-appropriate discounts to ensure every institution across the globe can own the LPP collection
• 5% of all sales set aside to fund author-choice open access publishing at our average production cost (actual costs published publicly on our website, updated every 6 months)

More info for librarians: https://livedplacespublishing.com/librarians 

We are growing quickly: Institutions such as UPenn, Georgetown, NYU, Princeton, UT Austin, LSU, Northwestern, University of Toronto, and Cambridge University have all become partners recently. We hope to welcome you to this growing family of institutions.

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About LPP's Latinx Studies Collection

Our books are short course readings (~150 pages), exploring the intersection of identity and place. Each LPP book includes learning objectives, recommended assignments, and discussion guides, and are designed to take up about 2-3 weeks of a college-level course.

Dr. Louis Mendoza has also written a book for our Latinx Studies Collection: 

• (Re)constructing Memory, Place, and Identity in 20th Century Houston: A Memoir on Family and Being Mexican American by Dr. Louis Mendoza

You can hear more about the book in Dr. Mendoza's recent interview on WSOU (Seton Hall University).

Other titles that we have in development for the Latinx Collection: 

• Latinidad, Identity Formation, and the Mass Media Landscape: Constructing Pocho Villa by Dr. Gabriel Arnoldo Cruz
• The Cost of Safety: Central American Young People's Notions of Home by Dr. Mirna Carranza
• Parables of Latinx and Mixed Ancestry: Border Writing and Resistance in Works by Octavia Butler, Lisa Alther, Melissa Cardoza, and Ariana Brown by Dr. D. Emily Hicks
• Organizing for Political and Social Action: Exploring Gloria Casarez’s Impact on Philadelphia by Nic Rodriguez Villafañe
• From Oaxaca, Mexico to the United States: A Researcher’s Experience of Transterritorial Identity by Teresa Figueroa Sanchez

View our complete catalog: https://livedplacespublishing.com/catalog

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About LPP's Mission and Model

• The “why” behind Lived Places Publishing’s focus on exploring the intersection of social identity and place/context
• How publishers can serve libraries with better pricing models, DRM, and ILL policies 
• On the CRT “debate” and how publishers must be outspoken in our support of access to books that our faculty and librarians select
• How the library is central to supporting course design and content selection by Dominic Broadhurst
• On new models for sustainable open access publishing

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