The American G.I. Forum
One of U. S. Hispanics' most important but least known civil-rights groups, the American GI Forum was founded in 1948 in Corpus Christi, Texas, by Hector P. García, an Army veteran and doctor. Today, the Forum has grown to number over 500 chapters throughout the nation, and remains more dedicated than ever to addressing the problems of veterans and their families (and by extension the overall Hispanic community) in the areas of education, employement, political representation, and health services. Henry Ramos's meticulously written book traces the stormy history of this influential group from its...
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Testimonio
Beginning with the early 1800s and extending to the modern era, Rosales collects illuminating documents that shed light on the Mexican-American quest for life, liberty, and justice. Documents include petitions, correspondence, government reports, political proclamations, newspaper items, congressional testimony, memoirs, and even international treaties.
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Eyewitness
Noted filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño participated in and documented the most important events in the Mexican American civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the farm workers' strikes and boycotts, the Los Angeles school walk-outs, the Chicano Youth Conference in Denver, the New Mexico land grant movement, the Chicano moratorium against the Vietnam War, the founding of La Raza Unida Party, and the first incursion of Latinos into the media. Coming of age during the turmoil of the sixties, Treviño was on the spot to record the struggles to organize students and workers into the...
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Flight to freedom : The story of Central American refugees in California
In a provoking, first-person account of the horrors of war and political persecution, Salvadoran refugee and community leader Carlos Vaquerano remembers the day that his brother Marcial and seven others were brutally murdered by the death squads supported by his countrys violent right-wing government. When a sister in the Estados Unidos offers to help him emigrate, Carlos and his Familia agree that he has no other options. So, like the more than one million Central American refugees fleeing the atrocities of war, Carlos makes the difficult journey through Mexico and into the U. S. Once here, though,...
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Jicoténcal
Originally published anonymously in 1826, this historical novel written in Spanish follows Hernán Cortés and his conquest of Mexico, his encounter with, his deception of and his alliance with the people of Tlaxcala, whom he used to defeat Moctezuma and the Aztecs.
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La Rebelde
La Rebelde marks the first printing of the original Spanish-language version of the memoir written by a revolutionary woman, Leonor Villegas de Magnón (1876-1955). Villegas de Magnón was a fiery critic of dictator Porfirio Díaz and a conspirator and participant in the Mexican Revolution. She rebelled against the ideals of her aristocratic class and against the traditional role of women in her society. In 1910 Villegas de Magnón moved from Mexico to Laredo, Texas, where she continued supporting the revolution as a member of the Junta Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Council) and as an incisive...
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The real Billy the Kid
Published as a limited edition in 1936, Miguel Antonio Otero's The Real Billy the Kid: With New Light on the Lincoln County War is a landmark Biografías of the infamous Western outlaw otherwise known as William H. Bonney, Jr. his brief childhood, gunfights, encounters with the Apache Indians, entanglement in the murderous feud known as the Lincoln County War, and finally his friendship with the man who ultimately killed him, Sheriff Pat Garrett. Otero knew his subject at first-hand: I liked The Kid very much. . . nothing would have pleased me more than to have witnessed his escape. Much of his...
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We won't back down
El 9 de diciembre de 1969, el cambio estaba en el aire. El pequeño pueblo de Crystal City, Texas, nunca volvería a ser el mismo. Después de semanas de solicitar una audiencia con la junta escolar de Crystal City, los estudiantes de la escuela secundaria de Crystal City y sus padres se presentaron en la oficina del superintendente. A los estudiantes se les había amenazado con la suspensión e incluso con la violencia física. Miembros influyentes de la comunidad habían insistido en que despedirían a los padres de los estudiantes si se presentaban ante la junta escolar, y aún así, vinieron.
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Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora
"My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her daughter and the children of my public school had the intelligence to pass a citywide test, Marta Moreno Vega writes in her essay. She knew then she was loved and valued, and she learned that to be an Afro-Puerto Rican woman meant activism was her birth right. Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina women of African descent share their stories. The authors included are from all over Latin AmericaBrazil, the Dominican Republic,...
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Hotel Juárez : stories, rooms and loops
En esta colección de relatos cortos y microrrelatos, Daniel Chacón examina las interacciones entre las personas, el impacto de la identidad y la importancia de la literatura, el arte y la música. En una historia, una niña recuerda a su padre, quien le enseñó a amar los libros y las bibliotecas. "Un libro puede susurrarte, llamarte desde los estantes. A veces, un libro puede encontrarte. Buscarte y pedirte que vengas a jugar", le decía. Años después, se encuentra eligiendo al azar varios libros de los estantes, leyendo pasajes de diferentes libros y adentrándose en los paisajes como si cada libro fuera un agujero de gusano. De alguna manera, un fragmento parece ser una continuación de otro, conectando de la misma manera en que lo hacen los pájaros cuando vuelan de un árbol al techo de una casa, creando "una idea, una conexión, una casa en el árbol".
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