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Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

10 best books like Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (Ana Castillo): I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings, Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, Loving in the War Years, Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, Chicana Falsa, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Drink Cultura: Chicanismo, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos

I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
AuthorAudre Lorde
ISBN0195341481
Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have...
Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire
AuthorSonia Shah
ISBN0896085759
From the global trade in Asian women workers to the elitism of the white feminist movement, no ground is sacred. These women warrriors don't mince words but speak with fierce conviction and surprising insight.This book showcases the growing politicization of Asian American women and their emerging...
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...
Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
AuthorMaylei Blackwell
ISBN0292725884
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...
Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity
AuthorAurora Levins Morales
ISBN0896085813
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
Chicana Falsa
AuthorMichele Serros
ISBN1573226858
I should have read this book a long time ago. I knew of Michele Serros early in her career but didn't read her until after she passed away, about a year and a half ago. This is a writer I connect with on so many levels. Her upbringing, her writings about family, her feelings of inadequacy as a Spanish speaker,...
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
AuthorWinona LaDuke
ISBN0896085996
This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is born from long years of experience,...
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...
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...
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...
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color
AuthorGloria E. Anzaldúa
ISBN1879960109
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors...
Methodology of the Oppressed
AuthorChela Sandoval
ISBN0816627371
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
AuthorTrinh T. Minh-ha
ISBN0253205034
"...methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious..." -Text and Performance Quarterly

"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further....
Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings
AuthorAlma M. García
ISBN0415918014
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Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
AuthorEmma Pérez
ISBN0292721285
Runner-up, Best Historical Fiction in English, Latino Book Awards Competition, 2010

This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Micaela Campos, the central character, witnesses the violence...
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
AuthorJennifer Nelson
ISBN0814758274
While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.

Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive...
"With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero
AuthorAmérico Paredes
ISBN0292701284
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...
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About
AuthorCarla Trujillo
Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries,...
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