Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
10 best books like Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (Rodolfo F. Acuña): Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present, Chicano! the History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 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
Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left
| Author | Sara M. Evans |
| ISBN | 0394742281 |
The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders...
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831301 |
Issues that I had with this book:
1. This book is 491 pages long. Of these, only 24 were spent discussing the experiences of Indian Americans. Was it because Takaki exhaustively covers all Asian immigration to America? No. It's because the book focuses heavily on Japanese, Chinese and Korean...
| Author | Jacqueline A. Jones |
| ISBN | 0394744144 |
Professor Jacqueline Jones presents the extensively researched history of the dual working worlds of black American women–at home and in the workforce–from slavery to present. She highlights the ways in which the unique cultural history of slavery as well as being subject to both sexism and...
| Author | Francisco A. Rosales |
| ISBN | 1558852018 |
This is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed, four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video following its national airing on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Aimed at a broad general audience as well as college and high school students, this milestone...
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...
| 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...
| Author | Jimmy Santiago Baca |
| ISBN | 0811211029 |
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...
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 | José Antonio Burciaga |
| ISBN | 1877741078 |
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...
| Author | Luis Valdez |
| ISBN | 1558850481 |
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...
| 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...
| Author | Ana Castillo |
| ISBN | 0452274249 |
The "I" in these critical essays by novelist, poet, scholar, and activist/curandera Ana Castillo is that of the Mexic-Amerindian woman living in the United States. The essays are addressed to everyone interested in the roots of the colonized woman's reality. Castillo introduces the term Xicanisma...
| Author | Warren Zimmermann |
| ISBN | 0374179395 |
" We were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
Americans like to think they have no imperial past. In fact, the United States became an imperial nation within five short years a century ago (1898-1903), exploding...
| 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...
"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...
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
| Author | Juan González |
| ISBN | 0140255397 |
The only reason it gets three instead of four or five stars is, while I like Gonzalez's intent to steer clear of composing a text written in what he terms the "safari approach" (meaning a text geared toward the Anglo -- i.e. non-Latino -- reader in which the writer guides the reader toward knowledge of the...
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1990
| Author | Manning Marable |
| ISBN | 0878054936 |
The original edition of this book was written during the second year of the Reagan administration. It reflected two perspectives, the thoughts of the social historian, and the commentary of the political theorist and social activist among African-Americans in the post-1975 period. This book elaborates...
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
| Author | Justin Akers Chacón |
| ISBN | 1931859353 |
No One Is Illegal debunks the leading ideas behind the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants.
Countering the chorus of anti-immigrant voices, Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacón expose the racism of anti-immigration vigilantes and put a human face on the immigrants who...
Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
| Author | Nell Irvin Painter |
| ISBN | 0393305880 |
The period of American history between 1877 and 1919 is often misunderstood as a boring time when nothing really happened. This is not indirectly brought about through excessively complex and abstract economic theory about money supply, sometimes bland political theater, and the gravity of the...
The Grounding of Modern Feminism
| Author | Nancy F. Cott |
| ISBN | 0300042280 |
"The time has come to define feminism; it is no longer possible to ignore it." The Century Magazine, 1914
In this landmark addition to scholarship, Nancy F. Cott, author of The Bonds of Womanhood, offers a new interpretation of American feminism during the early decades of this century—a...
The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1992
| Author | Harvard Sitkoff |
| ISBN | 0374523568 |
"The Struggle for Black Equality "is an arresting history of the civil-rights movement--from the pathbreaking Supreme Court decision of 1954, "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas," through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major issues of the 1990s. harvard Sitkoff offers...
