María Teresa Márquez and CHICLE: The First Chicanx Electronic Mailing List

CHICLE (Chewing gum in Spanish). CHICLE stood for Chicana/Chicano Literature Exchange.

These days we take the Internet and social media for granted, but imagine a world where there is no e-mail or exchange of information like we now have? That was the world for Humanities Librarian María Teresa Márquez at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Zimmerman Library and creator of CHICLE, the first Chicanx electronic mailing list created in 1991, which…