What Do I Read Next?: Multicultural Literature

by Rafaela G. Castro, David Williams, Terry Hong

Surveys works for children and adults.

832 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

Rafaela G. Castro was born in Bakersfield, California, but grew up in Arvin, a small agricultural town near Weedpatch Camp, the labor camp in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. When she was ten years old her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she has lived most of her life. She spent two years in Brazil with the Peace Corps before receiving degrees in English Literature, Library Science, and Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. She has lectured in Ethnic Bibliography and Chicano Studies at UC Berkeley, and recently retired from the Humanities/Social Sciences department of Shields Library at the University of California, Davis.

She is the author of:
* Dictionary of Chicago Folklore (ABC-Clio, Inc., 2000), illustrated.
* Chicano Folklore: A Guide to the Folktales, Traditions, Rituals and Religious Practices of Mexican Americans (Oxford University Press, 2001)
* Provocaciones: Letters from the Prettiest Girl in Arvin (Chusma House Publications, 2006)

She is one of four authors of:

* What Do I Read Next?: Multicultural Literature (Gale, 1997) contributing the Latino Literature section.

Her current work-in-progress is a novel about a woman's search, in the San Joaquin Valley of California, for her dead mother's lover.