La Casita is a program of Syracuse University established to advance an educational and cultural agenda of civic engagement through research, cultural heritage preservation, media, and the arts—bridging the Hispanic communities of the University and Central New York.

La Casita Cultural Center is located in the historic Lincoln Building in the city of Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood.  The center is equipped with an art gallery, classroom, bilingual library, performance space, workshop facilities, kitchenette and meeting space. For more information about space reservations, email lacasita@syr.edu.

La Casita’s Reading List: 

1. La Frontera/Borderlands, Gloria Anzaldúa
2. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
3. 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
4. Tradiciones Peruanos, Ricardo Palma
5. Rayuela, Julio Cortázar
6. The City and the Dogs / La cuidad y los perros, Mario Vargas Llosa
7. Lotería: Stories, Cynthia Pelayo
8. Jabber-Walking, Juan Felipe Herrera
9. Family Lore, Elizabeth Acevedo
10. In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
11. From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela M. Sánchez
12. Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
13. El tigueraje intellectual, Silvio Torres-Saillant
14. Family Lore, Elizabeth Acevedo
15. I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika L. Sánchez
16. Drown – Junot Diaz
17. The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: Latinext (poetry anthology), Felicia Chavez, José Olivarez, Willie Perdomo
18. Tales from la Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology, Frederick Luis Aldama
19. California Brown, Juan Felipe Herrera
20. The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
21. Bless Me, Ultima, Rudulfo Anaya
22. The Last Cuentista, Donna Barba Higuera