Chicano


Bless Me, Ultima
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The House on Mango Street
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Caramelo
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Under the Feet of Jesus
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Pocho
Alburquerque
Rain of Gold
Caballero: A Historical Novel
The Power of the Socratic Classroom by Charles Ames FischerAdvanced Grammar in Use With answers by Martin HewingsTo the Survivors by Robert UttaroPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireDecolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
The books that made me teach
23 books — 5 voters
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelPrayers for the Stolen by Jennifer ClementSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GieseAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Books Set in Mexico
479 books — 188 voters

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
The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra CisnerosThis Bridge Called My Back by Cherríe L. MoragaBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Chicano Chicana Chicanx
161 books — 101 voters

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLike Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Hispanic Fiction
265 books — 96 voters

Elizabeth Martínez
[Sin ese libro], tú no podrías escuchar nada sobre nuestra tradición de resistencia femenina a la opresión, que se remonta a la mujer nativa que tomó los techos de las casas en lo que luego se convertiría en México e "hizo llover dardos y piedras" sobre los invasores españoles. O a la mujer que, en Oaxaca, demandó a su esposo por abuso y logró que su caso llegara a la corte en 1630. O a las mujeres Maya que encerró al cura español en su iglesia por no aceptar que se enterraran a las víctimas may ...more
Elizabeth Martínez, 500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition

Francisco Jiménez
We were to write a short essay on one of the works we read in the course and relate it to our lives. I chose the "Allegory of the Cave" in Plato's Republic. I compared my childhood of growing up in a family of migrant workers with the prisoners who were in a dark cave chained to the floor and facing a blank wall. I wrote that, like the captives, my family and other migrant workers were shackled to the fields day after day, seven days a week, week after week, being paid very little and living in ...more
Francisco Jiménez

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