{"id":267,"date":"2021-07-29T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T16:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:15:32","slug":"americas-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/americas-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Am\u00e9ricas Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Am\u00e9ricas Award for Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/claspprograms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs<\/a> (CLASP) founded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claspprograms.org\/americasaward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Am\u00e9ricas Award for Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature<\/a> in 1993 to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality children\u2019s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States, and to provide teachers with recommendations for classroom use. CLASP offers up to two annual book awards, together with a commended list of titles. By linking the Americas, the intent is to reach beyond geographic borders, as well as multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural heritages within the hemisphere. The awards are administered by CLASP and coordinated by both Tulane University\u2019s Stone Center for Latin American Studies and Vanderbilt University\u2019s Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies.<\/p>\n<p>All titles are available for free checkout through the <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/for-educators\/book-borrowing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLACX Lending Library<\/a><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>See all award winners, honorable mentions, and commended titles on the <a href=\"http:\/\/claspprograms.org\/pages\/detail\/68\/Award-Winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Am\u00e9ricas Award webpage<\/a><u>.<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Engage with Am\u00e9ricas Award Books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/for-educators\/book-borrowing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLACX Lending Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claspprograms.org\/pages\/detail\/62\/Teaching-Resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teacher Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/claspprograms.org\/uploads\/Americas-Award-Toolkit-Web-1559317050.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Am\u00e9ricas Award Toolkit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/claspprograms.org\/pages\/detail\/39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Past Winners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/americasaward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Am\u00e9ricas Award on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><u>Criteria<\/u><\/h3>\n<p>Books will be judged by the Am\u00e9ricas Award <a href=\"http:\/\/claspprograms.org\/pages\/detail\/70\/Review-Committee\">Review Committee<\/a>\u00a0for: 1) distinctive literary quality;\u00a0 2) cultural contextualization; 3) exceptional integration of text, illustration, and design; and 4) potential for classroom use.<\/p>\n<h3>Process<\/h3>\n<p>To nominate a copyright title, publishers are invited to submit review copies to the committee members. There is no entry fee. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/claspprograms.org\/pages\/detail\/67\/Nomination-Guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.claspprograms.org\/americasaward<\/a> for more information on the submission process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Am\u00e9ricas Award for Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature The Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) founded the Am\u00e9ricas Award for Children\u2019s and Young Adult Literature in 1993 to encourage and commend authors, illustrators, and publishers who produce quality children\u2019s and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/clacx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}