The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center has selected Chicano literary activist, writer, and professor Tony Diaz for their August Latino Bookstore Summer Series and the national book launch of his book “The Tip of the Pyramid”. The book draws upon his over twenty years of work in the rich context of Chicano and Latino literary communities, reflecting on this effort and his life in activism, teaching, and media..

The genesis of the book in 2010 when Arizona lawmakers banned Mexican-American studies in their schools. Diaz co-organized the Librotraficante Caravan, an effort to confront the attempted erasure of Mexican American history and culture from Arizona classrooms.

“The Tip of the Pyramid” is Diaz’s second book. He previously authored the novel “The Aztec Love God” a coming-of-age tale about Tiofilio Duarte, a Mexican American high school student who dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. 

Diaz will be joined by some of the writers, activists, and leaders who are mentioned in the book, which chronicles the work of The Librotraficantes, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, and is a call for “Our Community to understand its power and to unite.”

Diaz earned his master of fine arts degree from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He is a cultural accelerator and the literary curator of the Latino Bookstore at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center.

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