Hispanic Heritage
Culture and History |
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Author |
Title and Call Number |
| Atkin, S. Beth | Voices from the fields: children of migrant farm workers tell their stories (Little, Brown 1993) (305.868 At51v) |
| Photo essay about modern field workers. | |
| Burciaga, Jose Antonio | Drink cultura: Chicanismo (Capra Press, 1993) (305.868 B893d) |
| An insightful and personal study of what it means to be Chicano. | |
| Cockcroft, James D. | The Hispanic struggle for social justice: the Hispanic experience in the Americas (F. Watts, 1994) (305.868 C644h) |
| Readable introduction to complex topic. | |
| Mraz, John and Storey, Jaime Velez | Uprooted: Braceros in the Hermanos Mayo Lens (Arte Publico Press, 1996) (305.868 M879u) |
| Photojournalist brothers recorded the "guest worker" program established during World War II. | |
| Balcedo, Michele | Quinceanera! : the essential guide to planning the perfect sweet fifteen celebration (Henry Holt, 1997) (395.24 Sa31q) |
| How to plan a traditional 15th birthday ceremony is explained in detail. | |
| Dehnel, Carolyn | A little Mexican cookbook (Chronicle Books, 1991) (641.5972 D367L) |
| Simple recipes that combine history with good taste. | |
| Ryskamp, George R. | A student's guide to Mexican American genealogy (Oryx Press, 1996) |
| In addition to help with tracing personal roots, this describes and illustrates periods and events in Chicano history. | |
| Cockcroft, James D. | Latinos in beisbol (F. Watts, 1996) (796.357 C644L) |
| Since 1871, Latino players have had a part in developing the great American pastime. | |
| Cockcroft, James D. | Latinos in the making of the United States: the Hispanic experience in the Americas (F. Watts, 1995) (973.0468 C644L) |
| How particular Latinos and Latino culture influenced our contemporary American scene. | |
| Hoobler, Dorothy | The Mexican American family album (Oxford University Press, 1994) (973.0468 H76m) |
| Heavily illustrated with photos from many families' albums, this history of Mexican America also includes sidebars by favorite Latinos/Latinas. | |
| Meier, Matt S. | Mexican Americans, American Mexicans: from Conquistadors to Chicanos (Hill and Wang, 1993) (973.0468 M475m) |
| Identity changes with historical development. | |
Classics |
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Author |
Title and Call Number |
| Barrio, Raymond | The plum plum pickers (Bilingual Press, 1971) |
| Migrant working conditions are depicted by a noted Chicano novelist. | |
| Rivera, Tomas | This migrant earth (Arte Publico Press, 1987) |
| First published in Spanish, this formed the basis for the Chicano literary movement. | |
| Villarreal, Jose Antonio | Pocho (Anchor Books, 1970) |
| The struggle to achieve adulthood becomes more complex when one is of two cultures.. | |
| Augenbraum, Harold and Olmos,Margarite Fernandez | The Latino reader: an American literary tradition from 1542 to the present (Marc Jaffe, 1997) (810.8066 L349a) |
| Excerpts from novels, plays and other literary works span centuries and cultures. | |
Poetry |
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Author |
Title and Call Number |
| Carlson, Lori M. | Cool Salsa: bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States (H. Holt, 1994) (808.81 C776) |
| Some poets wrote in Spanish, others in English. All poems here are translated into both. | |
| Nye, Naomi Shilab | The tree is older than you are: a bilingual gathering of poems & stories from Mexico with paintings by Mexican artists (Simon & Schuster, 1995)(860.9 T714) |
| Beautifully reproduced artwork illustrates diverse authors' works. | |
Recent Fiction |
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Author |
Title |
| Bertrand, Diane Gonzales | Sweet fifteen (Pinata Books, 1995) |
| A romance story. | |
| Jimenez, Francisco | The circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child. (Univ. Of New Mexico Press, 1997) |
| From entering the U.S. illegally as a small child through deportation during high school, these autobiographical stories capture the sense of hope and hopelessness. | |
| Ortiz Cofer, Judith | An island like you : stories of the barrio (Orchard Books, 1995) |
| Some are set in Puerto Rico, some in New Jersey. | |
| Paredes, Americo | George Washington Gomez: a Mexicotexan novel (Arte Publico Press, 1990) |
| A Mexican family moves to Texas in the 1920's. | |
| Soto, Gary | Jesse (Harcourt Brace, 1994) |
| A migrant worker goes to college. | |
| Velasquez, Gloria | Juanita fights the school board (Pinata Books, 1994) |
| High school student takes on the administration. | |
| Viramontes, Helena Maria | Under the feet of Jesus (Dutton, 1995) |
| Latina from Los Angeles writes stories about her own neighborhood. | |
| Ramirez, Anthony (editor) | The best of Latin American short stories = Los mejores cuentos hispanoamericanos (Bilingual Book Press, 1994) |
| Side-by-side, Spanish and English. | |
| Soto, Gary (editor) | Pieces of the heart: new Chicano fiction (Chronicle Books, 1993) |
| Many excellent contemporary authors appear in this anthology. | |
Biography |
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Author |
Title and Call Number |
| Acosta, Oscar Zeta | The revolt of the cockroach people (Vintage Books, 1989)(920 Ac72arr) |
| A lawyer views Chicano upheaval in 1960's Los Angeles. | |
| Alicea, Gil C. | The air down here: true tales from a South Bronx boyhood (Chronicle Books, 1995) (920 Al42aa) |
| By a 15 year old New Yorker. | |
| Dedera, Don | In search of Jesus Garcia (Prickly Pear Press, 1989) (920 G166i) |
| A Mexican railroad hero's story. | |
| Mohr, Nicholas | Growing up inside the sanctuary of my imagination (J. Messner, 1994) (920 M726ag |
| Young Puerto Rican girl promises her dying mother she'll make good. | |
| Ponce, Mary Helen | Hoyt Street: memories of a Chicana childhood (Anchor Books, 1995)(920 P792ah) |
| Growing up in Los Angeles 40 years ago. | |
| Prieto, Jorge | The quarterback who almost wasn't (Arte Publico Press, 1994)(796.332 P933aq) |
| Physician recalls his bicultural teen years. | |
| Villasenor, Victor | Walking stars: stories of magic and power (Pinata Books, 1994)(920 V712 aw) |
| Author goes to Mexico in search of the roots of the stories he heard as a child. | |