A book by Kellogg Faculty Fellow Carlos Jáuregui recently received the Dolores Huerta Best Cultural and Community Themed Book Award at the XXV International Latino Book Awards (ILBA 2023). Emiliano Zapata: 100 Years, 100 Photographs (Casasola-Mexico and Universidad de los Andes-Bogotá, 2022) was co-written and co-edited by David Solodkow and Karina Herazo.
The award was presented at the 25th annual International Latino Book Awards (ILBF) on Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, an event sponsored annually by Empowering Latino Futures (ELF) to recognize authors and their books celebrating literature about the Latino experience and demonstrating the richness of literary traditions among and for the Latino community.
Jáuregui's book contains various portraits of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) from a series of exhibitions in Colombia, Mexico, the United States, and the United Kingdom that marked the centenary of his assassination, including photographs from the Gustavo Casasola Collection and other Mexican public and private collections. Rather than commemorating a death, the book seeks to recover the affective power of visual memory to celebrate the life and claims of Zapata and those who, like him, were placed in the common grave of history or buried under heavy monuments.
Jauregui presented the book at the Feria Internacional del Libro conference in Guadalajara in 2022, at the Fundación Emiliano Zapata in Cuautla, Morelos, on Oct. 19, and at the Palacio de Cortés (INAH) in Cuernavaca, Morelos, on Oct. 20.