Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
10 best books like Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Francisco A. Rosales): A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010, Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement, Woodcuts of Women, Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years: Resources for Teaching about the Impact of the Arrival of Columbus in the Americas, Critical Race Theory, First Edition: An Introduction, First Edition, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings, Chicano, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 0822349779 |
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer,...
Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
| Author | Maylei Blackwell |
| ISBN | 0292725884 |
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos...
| Author | Dagoberto Gilb |
| ISBN | 0802138748 |
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...
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,...
| Author | Richard Delgado |
| ISBN | 0814719309 |
For well over a decade, critical race theory--the school of thought that holds that race lies at the very nexus of American life--has roiled the legal academy. In recent years, however, the fundamental principles of the movement have influenced other academic disciplines, from sociology and politics...
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...
| Author | Alma M. García |
| ISBN | 0415918014 |
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| Author | Richard Vasquez |
| ISBN | 0060821043 |
A bestseller when it was published in 1970 at the height of the Mexican-American civil rights movement, Chicano unfolds the fates and fortunes of the Sandoval family, who flee the chaos and poverty of the Mexican Revolution and begin life anew in the United States.
Patriarch Hector Sandoval...
| Author | David K. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0226401901 |
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least...
| Author | Richard Rodríguez |
| ISBN | 0140096221 |
This is a short discussion essay I wrote in Spring 2007 regarding this book:
What if I Am You?:
Cultural Hybridity in Richard Rodriguez’s Days of Obligation
Tanya Collings
What if we are not diverse? What if I feel myself becoming like you? What does that mean? What if...
In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped...
"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
| Author | Américo Paredes |
| ISBN | 0292701284 |
Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one...
| Author | Rudolfo Anaya |
| ISBN | 0826310540 |
This is a deeply moving book about the Mexican people in Albuquerque. It represents a very different view of immigration from the current one, whether on the left or the right. The story takes place in the 1950s although it often feels decades older, and follows a man and his family as they struggle to survive...
500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana
| Author | Elizabeth Martínez |
| ISBN | 0813542243 |
Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to...
Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave
| Author | Benita Roth |
| ISBN | 0521529727 |
This book is about the development of white women's liberation, black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the era known as the "second wave" of U.S. feminist protest. Benita Roth explores the ways that feminist movements emerged from the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement,...
Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature
| Author | Cristina García |
| ISBN | 1400077184 |
As the descendants of Mexican immigrants have settled throughout the United States, a great literature has emerged, but its correspondances with the literature of Mexico have gone largely unobserved. In Bordering Fires, the first anthology to combine writing from both sides of the Mexican-U.S....
From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
| Author | Vicki L. Ruiz |
| ISBN | 0195130995 |
For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended...
The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez
| Author | John Rechy |
| ISBN | 0802138470 |
In The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, Amalia Gomez thinks she sees a large silver cross in the sky. A miraculous sign, perhaps, but one the down-to-earth Amalia does not trust. Through Amalia, we take a vivid and moving tour of the "other Hollywood," populated by working-class Mexican Americans, as...
| Author | Constance DeJong |
| ISBN | 0991558529 |
"People used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe you'll make a name for yourself," New York-based artist and writer Constance DeJong (born 1950) wrote in Modern Love. "They were right: My name's Constance DeJong. My name's Fifi Corday. My name's Lady Mirabelle, Monsieur Le Prince, and Roderigo....
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
| Author | Robert N. Proctor |
| ISBN | 0804759014 |
What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology—the study of ignorance—provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don't we know what we don't know?...
| Author | Hans Erich Nossack |
| ISBN | 0226595579 |
One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 1400065003 |
From American Book Award-winning author Ana Castillo comes a suspenseful, moving novel about a sensuous, smart, and fiercely independent woman. Eking out a living as a teacher’s aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tía Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has...
Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903
| Author | Lawrence Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0802717926 |
A potent and original examination of how the Supreme Court subverted justice and empowered the Jim Crow era.
In the following years following the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery; the 14th conferred citizenship and equal protection under the law to white and black; and the...
Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlogel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency...
