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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,842 ratings — published 1987
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.67 — 247,934 ratings — published 1984
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,412 ratings — published 1991
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.52 — 9,883 ratings — published 1981
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.18 — 451 ratings — published 1994
Caramelo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.93 — 13,356 ratings — published 2002
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,307 ratings — published 2019
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.24 — 169 ratings — published 1998
The House of Broken Angels (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,504 ratings — published 2018
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.91 — 223 ratings — published 2016
The Mixquiahuala Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 993 ratings — published 1986
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.09 — 601 ratings — published 2006
Under the Feet of Jesus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.61 — 4,212 ratings — published 1995
So Far from God (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,740 ratings — published 1993
Mother Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 3.82 — 679 ratings — published 1990
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,689 ratings — published 1994
Loving in the War Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as chicana)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,074 ratings — published 1983
Funeral for Flaca (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.26 — 653 ratings — published 2021
All's Fair in Love and Field Hockey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.58 — 743 ratings — published 2025
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.66 — 461,130 ratings — published 2020
Goddess of Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.57 — 10,211 ratings — published 2021
A House of My Own: Stories from My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,931 ratings — published 2015
Violeta (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.03 — 112,478 ratings — published 2022
More Than You'll Ever Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.72 — 26,132 ratings — published 2022
Street of Too Many Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published
Blood Mountain (Jodi Luna, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,298 ratings — published 2024
The Haunting of Alejandra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.64 — 9,625 ratings — published 2023
The Last Karankawas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,204 ratings — published 2022
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.60 — 282 ratings — published
Through Fences (Latinographix)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.26 — 82 ratings — published
Caballero: A Historical Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.71 — 229 ratings — published 1996
Warrior Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.99 — 408 ratings — published 2022
Frida Kahlo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.95 — 22 ratings — published 2003
House of Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 1997
Frida Kahlo: A Little Golden Book Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.53 — 174 ratings — published
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,097 ratings — published 2004
Tell Me a Riddle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,644 ratings — published 1961
Omega Morales and the Legend of La Lechuza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.21 — 190 ratings — published 2022
Crying in the Bathroom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,842 ratings — published 2022
Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (Adventures in Art)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.90 — 39 ratings — published 2003
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,499 ratings — published 2022
Dominicana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.11 — 38,583 ratings — published 2019
The Valley: Estampas del valle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.76 — 59 ratings — published 1983
The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.31 — 127 ratings — published 1995
El Mesquite: A Story of the Early Spanish Settlements Between the Nueces and the Rio Grande (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.86 — 114 ratings — published 2000
My Father Was a Toltec and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.94 — 189 ratings — published 1994
Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 3.55 — 260 ratings — published 1995
Dreams of the Centaur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.07 — 58 ratings — published 1996
Salt of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as chicana)
avg rating 4.18 — 22 ratings — published 1977
“Pídele a casi cualquier chicana o chicano fuera de la academia que nombre a una mujer famosa de origen mexicano y probablemente vas a escuchar "Dolores Huerta". Si la persona conoce a nuestras escritoras contemporáneas, quizá mencione a "Sandra Cisneros" o "Ana Castillo". Si preguntas por un nombre de los primeros tiempos, te podrán decir Sor Juana, la monja rebelde de los mil seiscientos. Cuando trates de profundizar, la persona a tu lado tal vez va a decir, "iMe doy por vencido!, pero, bueno... ahí está la Virgen de Guadalupe, que creo, está en muchísimas camisetas. Era inevitable entonces, que la necesidad de un libro como este sea finalmente reconocida.
Ask almost anyone outside of academia to name famous US women of Mexican origin and you will probably hear ‘Dolores Huerta.’ If the person knows our contemporary writers, maybe ‘Sandra Cisneros’ and ‘Ana Castillo.’ If you ask for a name from earlier times, you might get ‘Sor Juana’-the rebel nun of the 1600’s. When you try to dig deeper, your companion may whimper, ‘I give up! Well…there’s the Virgin of Guadalupe, she’s on a lot of T-shirts. It was inevitable, then, that the need for a book like this would be recognized.”
― 500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
Ask almost anyone outside of academia to name famous US women of Mexican origin and you will probably hear ‘Dolores Huerta.’ If the person knows our contemporary writers, maybe ‘Sandra Cisneros’ and ‘Ana Castillo.’ If you ask for a name from earlier times, you might get ‘Sor Juana’-the rebel nun of the 1600’s. When you try to dig deeper, your companion may whimper, ‘I give up! Well…there’s the Virgin of Guadalupe, she’s on a lot of T-shirts. It was inevitable, then, that the need for a book like this would be recognized.”
― 500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
“[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 mayas de una epidemia de tifus en tierras de la iglesia. O a las masivas "Revueltas del Maíz" de 1962 realizadas por mujeres que se rehusaban a morir de hambre.
[Without a book like this] you would not hear about our tradition of female resistance to oppression, going back to Aztec women who took to the rooftops in what later became Mexico City and ‘rained down darts and stones’ on the invading Spainiards. Or the woman who filed suit in Oaxaca against her husband for abuse and had her case heard in court-in 1630! Or the Maya women who lackeed up the local Spanish priest in his church for not having Maya victims of a typhus epidemic buried in church ground. And the massive ‘Corn Riots’ of 1692 by women who refused to starve.”
― 500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
[Without a book like this] you would not hear about our tradition of female resistance to oppression, going back to Aztec women who took to the rooftops in what later became Mexico City and ‘rained down darts and stones’ on the invading Spainiards. Or the woman who filed suit in Oaxaca against her husband for abuse and had her case heard in court-in 1630! Or the Maya women who lackeed up the local Spanish priest in his church for not having Maya victims of a typhus epidemic buried in church ground. And the massive ‘Corn Riots’ of 1692 by women who refused to starve.”
― 500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
