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From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

by Vicki Ruiz

For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative forces shaping the cultural and economic development of what is now the American Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks, and participated in community associations--efforts that solidified the community and helped Mexican... (more)

The Wind That Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 (Texas Pan American Series)

The Wind That Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 (Texas Pan American Series)

by Anita Brenner

". . . here is the history of the revolution in 184 of the best photographs of the time. The whole disintegration and painful reintegration of a society is marvellously set before the eyes . . ." --Times Literary Supplement ". . . a classic and sympathetic statement of the first of the great twentieth century revolutions--its words and pictures command our attention and our respect." --Military History ... (more)

Chavez Ravine: 1949

by Don Normark

In 1949, photographer Don Normark walked up into the hills of Los Angeles, looking for a good view. Instead, he found Chavez Ravine, a ramshackle Mexican-American neighborhood tucked away in Elysian Park like a "poor man’s Shangri-la." Enchanted, he stayed for a year amidst the wild roses, tin roofs, and wandering goats of this uniquely intact rural community on the city’s outskirts. Accepted by the residents,... (more)

Zoot Suit and Other Plays

by Luis Valdez

This collection contains 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 Valdez, the most recognized and celebrated Hispanic playwright of our times, is the director of the... (more)

Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West

Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West

by Howard Bryan

Elfego Baca (1865-1945), long considered one of New Mexico's most colorful and controversial figures, first achieved fame in 1884 as a 19 year old deputy sheriff who single-handedly fought off an estimated 80 bloodthirsty cowboys who fired a reported four thousands shots at him without effect during a two-day siege. That reputation stayed with him for the rest of his long and eventful life. Often using his... (more)

Information: 20 Years of JodaJose Montoya

Information: 20 Years of Joda

by Jose Montoya

East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio

by Ricardo Romo

"Successfully debunks a number of misconceptions about the Mexicano experience in the United States. . . . The story of the East Los Angeles barrio is not a pleasant one, although it does contain glimpses of a stubborn and resilient people determined to fight for their way of life." --Social Science Quarterly ". . . incisive and original . . . a major contribution to urban history and the history of the... (more)

Just Another Poster?/Solo UN Cartel Mas?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California/Artes Graficas Chicanas En California

Just Another Poster?/Solo UN Cartel Mas?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California/Artes Graficas Chicanas En California

Just Another Poster? investigates the critical role posters and other graphic materials played in the Chicano struggle for self-determination in California, from the borderland of San Diego to the urban metropolis of San Francisco. This volume of essays by an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators represents the first comprehensive study of the ways the poster, as a medium of expression largely relegated... (more)

An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781-1985

An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781-1985

by Antonio Jose?. Ri?os-Bustamante

A history of Chicanos in Los Angeles.

Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays (Chicana Matters)

Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays (Chicana Matters)

by Laura E. Garcia

The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement. In this collective memoir, seventeen women who were a part of Teatro de las Chicanas (later known as Teatro Laboral... (more)

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.

by Eduardo Obrego?n Paga?n

The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the alleged gang slaying of fellow youth Jose Diaz. Just five months later, the so-called Zoot Suit Riot erupted, as white soldiers in the city attacked minority youths and burned their distinctive zoot suits. Eduardo Obregon Pagan here provides the first comprehensive social... (more)

Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States

Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States

by Shifra M. Goldman

Acclaimed art historian Shifra Goldman here provides the first overview of the social history of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. Long needed in the field of art history, this collection of thirty-three essays focuses on Latin American artists throughout Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Goldman's extensive introduction provides an up-to-date chronology... (more)

Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

by Richard Henry Dana; Jr.

This Elibron Classics book is a reprint of a 1844 edition by Harper & Brothers, New York.

Rain of gold. (Spanish)

by Victor E. Villasenor

Follows the life story of the author's mother, Lupe, whose family was forced to flee their homeland during the Mexican Revolution, and who, despite hardship, met and fell in love with the man who became her husband. Reprint. NYT.

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya

When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.

Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890

Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890

by Leonard Pitt

In his enduring study of Spanish-speaking Californians--a group that includes both native-born Californians, or Californios, and immigrants from Mexico-- Leonard Pitt charts one of the earliest chapters in the state's ethnic history, and, in the process, he sheds light on debates and tensions that continue to this day. In a new foreword for this edition, Ramn A. Gutirrez discusses the shaping and reception... (more)

Rain of Gold

by Victor E. Villasenor

The Mexican War (Old West)

The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation (Mexican American Monographs)

The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation (Mexican American Monographs)

by Mauricio Mazo?n

"In the nascent field of Chicano history psychohistorical studies are not abundant. Thus Mazón makes an immense contribution to the study of the Mexican American." --Arnoldo de León, American Historical Review Los Angeles, the summer of 1943. For ten days in June, Anglo servicemen and civilians clashed in the streets of the city with young Mexican Americans whose fingertip coats and pegged, draped trousers... (more)

Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change

Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change

by Shifra M. Goldman

Originally published in 1981, this book was the first to deal in detail with contemporary Mexican art after World War II, and, in particular, with the important movement of the early 1960s known as Nueva Presencia. The artists associated with this movement include Arnold Belkin, Francisco Icaza, and José Luis Cuevas, who later became a prominent opponent of the group. United by their belief in the importance of... (more)

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From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

by Vicki Ruiz

The Wind That Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942 (Texas Pan American Series)

by Anita Brenner

Chavez Ravine: 1949

by Don Normark

Zoot Suit and Other Plays

by Luis Valdez

Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West

by Howard Bryan

Information: 20 Years of Joda

by Jose Montoya

East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio

by Ricardo Romo

Just Another Poster?/Solo UN Cartel Mas?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California/Artes Graficas Chicanas En California

An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781-1985

by Antonio Jose?. Ri?os-Bustamante

Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays (Chicana Matters)

by Laura E. Garcia

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A.

by Eduardo Obrego?n Paga?n

Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States

by Shifra M. Goldman

Two Years before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea

by Richard Henry Dana; Jr.

Rain of gold. (Spanish)

by Victor E. Villasenor

Bless Me, Ultima

by Rudolfo Anaya

Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890

by Leonard Pitt

Rain of Gold

by Victor E. Villasenor

The Mexican War (Old West)

The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation (Mexican American Monographs)

by Mauricio Mazo?n

Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change

by Shifra M. Goldman