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10 best books like Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (José Antonio Burciaga): The Republic of East L.A., How to Be a Chicana Role Model, 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, Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz, Zoot Suit and Other Plays, Critical Race Theory, First Edition: An Introduction, First Edition

The Republic of East L.A.
AuthorLuis J. Rodríguez
From the award-winning author of Always Running comes a brilliant collection of short stories about life in East Los Angeles. Whether hilariously capturing the voice of a philosophizing limo driver whose dream is to make the most of his rap-metal garage band in "My Ride, My Revolution," or the monologue-styled...
How to Be a Chicana Role Model
AuthorMichele Serros
ISBN1573228249
Reviewed by: Sandra
A Latina Book Club


Review: This is a collection of fiction from a strong, witty, and intelligent chicana writer. In these rules, Michele Serros writes about being a “chicana role model” based on tales and experiences.


Rule #1: “Never Give...
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,...
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz
AuthorMona Ruiz
ISBN1558852026
the book i just finished reading was "Two Badges" and i really did like this book it tells most of my life on lines. Im not one to say how i feel or explain what im feeling but here Dona made it seem as if i was her. She had a crazy life that went by so fast and with me my story starts off the same . As a youngster i grew...
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...
Critical Race Theory, First Edition: An Introduction, First Edition
AuthorRichard Delgado
ISBN0814719309
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...
Loverboys
AuthorAna Castillo
ISBN0393331679
“Seductive… full of infectious vigor… these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.”―New York Times Book Review


From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on the experience of love in all its myriad...
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...
... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
AuthorTomás Rivera
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country....
Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
AuthorCherríe L. Moraga
ISBN1563410923
Cherrie Moraga, the celebrated Chicana lesbian writer, has crafted a jewel of a book in Waiting In The Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood. This is the story of "one small human being's struggle for survival", the author's two-and-one-half pound premature baby boy.While the specifics belong to...
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...
Loving Pedro Infante
AuthorDenise Chávez
ISBN0743445732
In the soothing darkness of her local theater, thirty-something teacher's aide and divorcée Teresina "Tere" Ávila looks straight into the smoldering eyes of Pedro Infante and wonders where her life has gone. The impossibly handsome Mexican singer and movie icon died in 1957, but to Tere -- secretary...
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