Chicana


Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The House on Mango Street
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
Caramelo
Gods of Jade and Shadow
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
The House of Broken Angels
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me
The Mixquiahuala Letters
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Under the Feet of Jesus
So Far from God
Mother Tongue
The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Tempest by William ShakespeareA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBorderlands/La Frontera, the 1st Edition by Gloria E. AnzaldúaVoices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Arizona Banned Books List
85 books — 17 voters

Massacre of the Dreamers by Ana CastilloMy Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra CisnerosThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaLoose Woman by Sandra Cisneros
Xicanisma
7 books — 1 voter

Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaThe Library Book by Susan OrleanWater to the Angels by Les StandifordCity of Quartz by Mike  Davis
Los Angeles (nonfiction)
114 books — 39 voters
Ash by Malinda LoJuliet Takes a Breath by Gabby RiveraBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Queer Female Authors of Color
86 books — 43 voters

Sergio Troncoso
The either/or proposition that forces you to choose between your community and, say, your country has never been true. The very skills we learn to cross borders within ourselves help us to cross borders toward others outside our community.
Sergio Troncoso, Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds

In challenging traditional gender relations, many Chicana activists were accused of being lesbians, 'white identified,' narcissistic, and antifamily. ...more
Cristina Beltrán, The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

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