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Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States

10 best books like Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (Lori Marie Carlson): Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art, Worlds Afire, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Woodcuts of Women, The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices, 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

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN1932425128
There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the bones were those of a slave name Fortune, who was owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death,...
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN0810943867
Fantastic concept. Seeing the works of art through the poets' eyes really helped me see more in them, connect with them on a deeper level. Many were new to me, though, and that was interesting, too.

I really liked what Bobbi Katz did in "Lessons from a Painting by Rothko" for one of Marc Rothko's...
Worlds Afire
AuthorPaul B. Janeczko
ISBN0763622354
In his first full-length poetic work, celebrated poetry anthologist Paul B. Janeczko creates a stirring fictional account of the 1944 Hartford circus fire.

One summer afternoon in 1944, hundreds of circus lovers crowded under the big top in Hartford, Connecticut, breathlessly waiting...
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...
The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0689820879
A beautiful collection of bilingual poems and stories from Mexico, paired with paintings by Mexican artists.

“Remember, the tree is older than you are and you might find stories in its branches.”

So begins this wondrous collection of poems and stories from Mexico that invites...
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
AuthorWalter Dean Myers
ISBN0823418537
Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more....
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...
Colibri
AuthorAnn Cameron
ISBN0440420520
Colibri by Ann Cameron presented itself almost like an autobiography given by its main character Tzunun, (nicknamed is Colibri). She is kidnapped at the age of four from her parents and is now about 12 years old. Her caretaker is an individual she calls “uncle”. He told her he found her on the street...
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...
Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0806908203
"Gr. 5 Up...spacious format; a wide variety of poems; and colorful, interpretive illustrations...."--SLJ. "The format is admirable: a handsome sampler of poems, with a short introductory essay, unfamiliar words briefly defined in footnotes, and a few prefatory sentences for each poem to establish...
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...
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