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... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him

10 best books like ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Tomás Rivera): So Far from God, Macho!, Loving in the War Years, Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Woodcuts of Women, Black Mesa Poems, Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: Resources for Teaching about the Impact of the Arrival of Columbus in the Americas, Drink Cultura: Chicanismo, Zoot Suit and Other Plays

So Far from God
AuthorAna Castillo
ISBN0393326934
I loved this book. It's kind of magical realism for the North American feminist. Growing up in a catholic feminist family with my mom and 3 sisters and a dad who was there -- but not so much -- the story felt like a dramatic and whimsical telling of themes I've lived. Like Ana Castillo, I've lived in Chicago...
Macho!
AuthorVictor Villaseñor
Fiction. MACHO! Has been chosen by the New York Public Library for its distinguished list of Books for the Teen Age. Victor Villasenor is the author of several works, most notably the national-bestseller RAIN OF GOLD and many screenplays, including the award-winning The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez....
Loving in the War Years
AuthorCherríe L. Moraga
ISBN0896086267
Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's...
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States
AuthorLori Marie Carlson
ISBN0805076166

i think in spanish
i write in english

i want to go back to puerto rico,
but i wonder if my kink could live
in ponce, mayagüez and carolina

tengo las venas aculturadas
escribo en spanglish
abraham in español

--from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato...
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
AuthorElizabeth Martínez
The unique Chicana voice of Elizabeth Martinez arises from more than thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation, and Latina/o empowerment.With sections on women's organizing, struggles for economic justice. and the Latina/o youth movement, De Colores Means...
Woodcuts of Women
AuthorDagoberto Gilb
ISBN0802138748
Dagoberto Gilb is an acknowledged master of the short story, the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, and a PEN/Faulkner finalist for his debut collection, The Magic of Blood, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his fiction writing. His critically acclaimed collection Woodcuts of Women is...
Black Mesa Poems
AuthorJimmy Santiago Baca
ISBN0811211029
Black Mesa Poems is rooted in the American Southwest, the setting of Jimmy Santiago Baca's highly acclaimed long narrative poem, Martin Meditations on the South Valley (New Directions, 1987). "Baca's evocation of this landscape," as City Paper noted, "its aridity and fertility, is nothing...
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: Resources for Teaching about the Impact of the Arrival of Columbus in the Americas
AuthorBill Bigelow
Why rethink Christopher Columbus? Because the Columbus myth is a foundation of children's beliefs about society. Columbus is often a child's first lesson about encounters between different cultures and races. The murky legend of a brave adventurer tells children whose version of history to accept,...
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo
AuthorJosé Antonio Burciaga
ISBN1877741078
This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures--the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all.

"In some ways a book Erma Bombeck might have written, that is, if she were from El Paso, dressed in Tony Lama boots, and full...
Zoot Suit and Other Plays
AuthorLuis Valdez
ISBN1558850481
Here are three of playwright and screenwriter Luis Valdez's most important and recognized plays: Zoot Suit, Bandido! and I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! The anthology also includes an introduction by noted theater critic Dr. Jorge Huerta of the University of California-San Diego. Luis...
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
AuthorLuis Alberto Urrea
ISBN0816522707
Here's a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and settles into the 'hood, hoping for the American Dream.
. . . I'm not saying it's our story. I'm not saying it isn't. It might be yours. "How do you tell a story that cannot be told?" writes Luis Alberto Urrea in this potent memoir of a childhood...
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
AuthorRodolfo F. Acuña
Authored by one of the most influential and highly-regarded voices of Chicano history and ethnic studies, Occupied America is the most definitive introduction to Chicano history. This comprehensive overview of Chicano history is passionately written and extensively researched.With a concise...
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexan Novel
AuthorAmérico Paredes
ISBN1558850120
In the 1930's, Americo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles by Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture, and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. For his epic novel Paredes...
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
AuthorOscar Zeta Acosta
ISBN0679722122
The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.

Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's...
The Moths and Other Stories
AuthorHelena María Viramontes
ISBN1558851380
Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their...
The Rain God
AuthorArturo Islas
ISBN0380763931
Already a Southwestern classic as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself, Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature.

Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the...
Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
AuthorAlicia Gaspar De Alba
ISBN1558854460
Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders Alicia Gaspar de Alba, March 31, 2005, ISBN 1-55885-446-0, Clothbound, $23.95 An incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the US / Mexico border It�s the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies...
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