 | From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America by Vicki L. Ruiz
Buy new: $17.07 / Used from: $2.23 Personal narratives of Mexican immigrants and subsequent generations. Nice contrast to "master"narrative usually feed to students in CA public schools.
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 | By the Lake of Sleeping Children by Luis Urrea
Buy new: $10.10 / Used from: $3.35 a heartbreaking work about staggering realities of the U.S.-Mexico Border.
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 | Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Luis Alberto Urrea
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.58 Another revealing look at "life on the line."
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 | Drink Cultura: Chicanismo by José Antonio Burciaga
Buy new: $10.52 / Used from: $1.19 R.I.P Burciaga...through comedy and anecdote he serves us culture.
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 | How to Be a Chicana Role Model by Michele M. Serros
Buy used from: $0.20 Serros may be channeling Burciaga in her hilarious and sincere accounts of life as a "Chicana Role Model."
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 | Chicana Falsa : And Other Stories of Death, Identity, & Oxnard by Michele M. Serros
Buy used from: $2.66 Another brillant work from Serros.
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 | Song of the Hummingbird by Graciela Limon
Buy new: $11.01 / Used from: $3.09 Limon inverts the idea of conquest/invasion and gives voice to a Mexica woman...
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 | The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy: Recollections and Short Essays by Gary Soto
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.01 Soto's writing comes from the heart-a heart which happens to belong a Chicano.
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 | Chicano!: The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Hispanic Civil Rights) by Francisco A. Rosales
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $10.48 A must have for anyone interested in Chicano history.
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 | La ley del amor by Laura Esquivel
Buy used from: $0.01 Esquival of "Like Water For Chocolate" fame stimulates the senses in this multimedia masterpiece.
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