September BOTM Media Map

Books, films, podcasts & music to accompany your reading of this month's book pick, The Undocumented Americans, and to dive deeper into its themes and subjects.

ID: (Still from Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)) On the left, a Spanish woman in a blue shirt and a hat sits looking at a Latino man sitting behind the driver's wheel with a sucker hanging out of his mouth, wearing a blue t-shirt and a red bandana around his head. Behind them, a Latino man in an unbuttoned black shirt sits looking at the man in the driver's seat. The three appear to be engaged in conversation with one another.

Books

• Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli

• The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

• Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

• El Paso Del Norte: Stories on the Border by Richard Yanez

• The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

• Angelitos: A Graphic Novel by Ilan Stavans

• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

• My Wicked Ways: Poems by Sandra Cisneros

• Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien by Alan Pelaez Lopez

Film & TV

• Y tu Mamá También (2001)

• Gueros (2014)

• Amores Perros (2001)

• Gentefied (2020)

• Vampires vs the Bronx (2020)

• Roma (2018)

• Under the Same Moon (2007)

• The Golden Dream (La Jaula de Oro) (2013)

• Leap Year (2010)

• Real Women Have Curves (2002)

Podcasts

• This Latina Needs Therapy Too

• In The Thick with Maria & Julio

• LatinX on the Rise

Insta Accounts 2 Follow

• @bbyanarchists

• @borderkindness

• @muchachafanzine

• @latinxtherapy

• @migrantscribble

• @latinarebels

• @undocublack

• @thesalvivegan

• @thevintagejesus

• @adelitasapparel

Music

• Collaborative Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5LyNWTTnDR82WxmspbwEp4?si=876b94c081a84a66&pt=3cced5ce3952543bd7fb6cadb1c59e0c

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