Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader
Eds. Michael Hames-García & Ernesto Javier Martínez
Duke University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0822349556
2011 | Edited Volume
The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies.
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education
EDS., Stephanie Fryberg & Ernesto Javier Martínez
Palgrave Press
ISBN 978-1137456052
2014 | Edited Volume
"The Truly Diverse Faculty will be the 'go to' book for university leaders who aspire to create, nurture, and sustain a diverse faculty but who too frequently fail to grasp what that goal requires of our higher education institutions." -- Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Michigan
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education
EDS., Stephanie Fryberg & Ernesto Javier Martínez
Palgrave Press
ISBN 978-1137456052
2014 | Edited Volume
"The Truly Diverse Faculty will be the 'go to' book for university leaders who aspire to create, nurture, and sustain a diverse faculty but who too frequently fail to grasp what that goal requires of our higher education institutions." -- Patricia Gurin, Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Michigan
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
By Ernesto Javier Martínez
Stanford University Press
ISBN 978-0804783408
2012 | Monograph
On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression.
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility
By Ernesto Javier Martínez
Stanford University Press
ISBN 978-0804783408
2012 | Monograph
On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression.
Writer | Filmmaker | Scholar
Ernesto Javier Martínez
FILM
LA SERENATA
(feature film)
Live Action | 80 min.
Coming soon
Directed by Adelina Anthony
Written by Adelina Anthony & Ernesto Javier Martínez
Produced by Ernesto Javier Martínez, Adelina Anthony, and Marisa Becerra
Logline:
Two parents struggle with their beloved Mexican musical tradition when their young son requests to sing a love song to another boy, ushering them into a larger community battle for social justice.
LA SERENATA
(short film)
Live Action | HBO Max | 13 min.
Awards:
HBO Latinx Short Film Competition Award
Imagen Award for Best Short Film
Jury Award, Long Beach Queer Film Festival
Jury Award, Seattle Queer Film Festival
Jury Award, OUT Film Connecticut
Audience Award, International Queer WOC FF
Directed by Adelina Anthony
Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez
Produced by Ernesto Javier Martínez, Adelina Anthony, and Marisa Becerra
CHILDREN'S MEDIA
CUANDO AMAMOS CANTAMOS/
WHEN WE LOVE SOMEONE WE SING TO THEM
Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez
Illustrated by Maya Gonzalez
Translated by Jorge Gabriel Martínez Feliciano
An award-winning bilingual story about Mexican music, family, and the many ways children learn to express love.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:
International Latino Book Awards (Two Gold Medals)
Selection, American Library Association Rainbow Book List
Selection, LGBTQ Writers in Schools "Featured Book"
Selection, GLISTEN's Rainbow Library
Selection, Pride and Less Prejudice's Rainbow Library
DANIEL VISITS A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD: THE MOVIE
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Season 6
PBS Kids | 44 min.
Written by Jill Cozza-Turner and
Ernesto Javier Martínez
(Clip from the movie)
"MUSICAL SHOW AND SHARE"
Sesame Street in Communities
YouTube | 3 min.
Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez
"RAINY DAY, INDOOR PLAY"
Lyla in the Loop, Season 2
PBS Kids | 11 min.
Written by Ernesto Javier Martínez
(Clip from the episode)
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About
Ernesto Javier Martínez is an award-winning author, screenwriter, filmmaker, and scholar who teaches in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.
He is the author of the pioneering children’s book Cuando Amamos Cantamos/ When We Love Someone, We Sing to Them (Reflection Press), winner of two International Latino Book Award Gold Medals, and On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility (Stanford UP), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT studies. He is also the co-editor of The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher Education (Palgrave) and Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader (Duke UP), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for best LGBT anthology.
Martínez is the writer-producer of the live-action short film, La Serenata, winner of eleven best film awards and distributed by HBO Max. He also works as a freelance writer for shows like Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Sesame Street, and Lyla in the Loop. He is best known for co-writing, with Jill Turner, the animated kids’ movie Daniel Visits a New Neighborhood: The Movie (PBS Kids), which introduces a new Latinx family to the Emmy award-winning Daniel Tiger franchise.
His awards include the Fields Artist Fellowship, Spark Award for Oregon Artists, Imagen Award for best short film, (commonly known as the "Latin Golden Globes"), HBO Latinx Short Film Award, and various fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the National Association for Latino Independent Producers.
