Somos en el aire: Felipe Ortego y Gasca

Host Armando Rendon discusses Chicano Renaissance past and present, the Mexican American presence, and Chicano publishing with the first Chicano scholar of Chicano literary criticism, Felipe Ortego y Gasca.

​​Felipe de Ortego y Gasca (1926-2018) was Scholar in Residence (Cultural Studies, Critical Theory and Public Policy, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Texas State University System—Sul Ross. Felipe is especially recognized as the earliest proponent of what he called, The Chicano Renaissance, based on his seminal studies of Chicano literature.