All, unfortunately, with the worst stereotypes, fixations, and inaccuracies about Latinos.'Ĭummins also faced accusations of plagiarism

The Los Angeles Times' Esmeralda Bermudez wrote that the book made her 'cringe' because she realized it 'was not written for people like me,' immigrants, but 'for everyone else - to enchant them, take them on a wild border-crossing ride, make them feel all fuzzy inside about the immigrant plight.

'This may seem like a small point of contention, but it seems illustrative of the larger criticism surrounding the novel.'

Tina Vasquez pointed out in the Boston Globe that the majority of migrants who try to cross the US-Mexico border are from Central America, and not Mexico, like the characters in Cummins' novel.

Jeanine Cummins' novel American Dirt - or 'The Grapes of Wrath for our times,' according to author Don Winslow - is neither the dream I had hoped for nor the vehicle that is going to create the type of change our community deserves.'

For our talent to be recognized and our stories to be honored - for our lived experiences to create a better reality for our community. Former undocumented Mexican immigrant Julissa Arce wrote on BuzzFeed:'As a Latina writer, my petitions were for us to be seen, heard, and understood.It often indicates a user profile.ĭavid Bowles, a Mexican-American poet, wrote in a Medium post on January 18 that 'American Dirt' is 'harmful, appropriating, inaccurate, trauma-porn melodrama.' Soon others were piling onto the book on social media -Silvia Moreno-Garcia Janu-Kath Barbadoro JanuThen a rash of opinion pieces came out trying to explain the scandal Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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