Zoot Suit and Other Plays
10 best books like Zoot Suit and Other Plays (Luis Valdez): Machinal, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century, Woodcuts of Women, Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States, 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, Critical Race Theory, First Edition: An Introduction, First Edition, Loverboys
| Author | Sophie Treadwell |
| ISBN | 1854592114 |
Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Ruth Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair. Out of this came MACHINAL, a powerful expressionist drama about...
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...
Similar to my own experience, Lori Marie Carlson started studying Spanish as a pre-adolescent, fostering a lifelong appreciation for both the language and the culture. When Carlson was growing up, Spanish meant Spain and all things Ibero-centric. Yet, after choosing Latin American studies as the...
| 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 | Mona Ruiz |
| ISBN | 1558852026 |
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...
| 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 | 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 | 0393331679 |
“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...
| Author | Luis Alberto Urrea |
| ISBN | 0816522707 |
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...
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...
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....
| Author | Cherríe L. Moraga |
| ISBN | 0931122740 |
"Heroes and Saints & Other Plays" is Chicana playwright Cherr e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: "Shadow of a Man," winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; "Heroes and Saints," winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the...
| Author | Américo Paredes |
| ISBN | 1558850120 |
In the 1930's, Americo Paredes, the renowned folklorist, wrote a novel set to the background of the struggles by Texas Mexicans to preserve their property, culture, and identity in the face of Anglo-American migration to and growing dominance over the Rio Grande Valley. For his epic novel Paredes...
| Author | Helena María Viramontes |
| ISBN | 1558851380 |
Fiction. THE MOTHS AND OTHER STORIES, Helena Maria Viramontes' stories exploring women's struggles to overcome the dictates of family, culture, and church, is in a new edition. Prejudice and the social and economic status of Chicanos often form the backdrop for these haunting stories, but their...
| Author | Anna Deavere Smith |
| ISBN | 0385470142 |
This play made me fall in love with Anna Deavere Smith. Fires in the Mirror focuses on the real life 1991 racially charged riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The play explores the pain of prejudice in Jewish and Black American cultures in the format of several monologues given...
| Author | Adrienne Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0573621667 |
A Black woman awakens in a phantasmagoric rooming house where she is visited by the Duchess of Hapsburg, Queen Victoria, Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ. Only she and Lumumba are not dressed in white; she has a white fixation and wants to become whiter and whiter. She harangues against her father who...
| Author | Arturo Islas |
| ISBN | 0380763931 |
Already a Southwestern classic as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself, Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature.
Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the...
Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
| Author | Alicia Gaspar De Alba |
| ISBN | 1558854460 |
Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders Alicia Gaspar de Alba, March 31, 2005, ISBN 1-55885-446-0, Clothbound, $23.95 An incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the US / Mexico border It�s the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies...
