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Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life

10 best books like Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (Luis Alberto Urrea): Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology, 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, Drink Cultura: Chicanismo, Zoot Suit and Other Plays, Loverboys

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
AuthorHoward Zinn
ISBN0060921080
A lovely book. I took 6 pages of notes.

This captures the essence of Zinn:

“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve on interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brownsville: Stories
AuthorOscar Casares
ISBN0316146803
I got tired of reading Chicano literature years ago because all the books seemed to be about identity and not much else. A few titles got a lot of attention but were not well written. This is the book that changed my attitude.

Every story is well crafted. He captures the sense of place without have...
Truth Serum
AuthorBernard Cooper
ISBN0395859948
Cooper offers his most moving and poignant effort yet. In a memoir at once affecting, witty, and dead-on accurate, he gives us the chance to accompany him as he reinvents memory - from Theresa Sanchez, the worldly and sophisticated girl who sat behind him in ninth-grade algebra, to the events surrounding...
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
AuthorRigoberto González
ISBN0299219003
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. 

Growing up among poor migrant Mexican...
The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorDavíd Carrasco
ISBN0195379381
This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic...
All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
AuthorStephanie Elizondo Griest
ISBN1469631598
After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her...
California Dreamin': The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas The Music, the Madness, the Magic that was
AuthorMichelle Phillips
ISBN0446513083
The first half of this was very good indeed, and I was thinking that it would continue in that vein. But then things began to get rather sketchy, and a bit puzzling as well (eg, Gene Clark, who was portrayed as being very skittish about his affair with her, suddenly shows up in the front row of a M&P concert...
Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
AuthorHéctor Tobar
ISBN1594481768
In the national bestseller Translation Nation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar takes us on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States—a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and...
Papa John: An Autobiography by John Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas)
AuthorJohn Phillips
ISBN0385231202
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. It was the anthem of the sixties. The psychedelic code by which many lived--and died. And John Phillips, legendary founder and songwriter of the Mamas and the Papas, experienced it all. Now Phillips takes us on a dizzying roller-coaster ride from stardom in L.A. to drug...
The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South
AuthorGene Cheek
ISBN1592288987
Cheek spins a mesmerizing yarn, told from a little boy's viewpoint, of growing up poor and white in 1950s North Carolina, surrounded by generations of wife-beating alcoholics. Through plain yet descriptive language seasoned with wry, biting adjectives, he ably conveys the sights, sounds and feelings...
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