The Chicano Labyrinth of Solitude
Author: Enrique C. Orozco
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Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9781465214409
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Author: Enrique C. Orozco
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Published: 2013
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Octavio Paz
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 226
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780802150424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst pub. 1950. Tale of the conquered of Mexico in 1521 and its aftermath.
Author: Spencer R. Herrera
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2013-10-30
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 082635355X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUn lugar sagrado, a sacred place where two or more are gathered in the name of community, can be found almost anywhere and yet it is elusive: a charro arena behind a rock quarry, on the pilgrimage trail to Chimayó, a curandero’s shrine in South Texas, or at a binational Mass along the border. Sagrado is neither a search for identity nor a quest for a homeland but an affirmation of an ever-evolving cultural landscape. Embedded at the heart of this remarkable book, in which prose, photographs, and poems complement each other, is a photopoetic journey across the Chicano Southwest.
Author: Matt S. Meier
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780809015597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Mexican-American history from the time of the Spanish conquistadors to the Civil Rights movement and recent immigration laws.
Author: Rosario Castellanos
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1998-08-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780141180038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by European invaders five hundred years ago. With the panoramic sweep of a Diego Rivera mural, the novel weaves together dozens of plot lines, perspectives, and characters. Blending a wealth of historical information and local detail with a profound understanding of the complex relationship between victim and tormentor, Castellanos captures the ambiguities that underlie all struggles for power. A masterpiece of contemporary Latin American fiction from Mexico’s greatest twentieth-century woman writer, The Book of Lamentations was translated with an afterword by Ester Allen and introduction by Alma Guillermoprieto.
Author: Maceo Montoya
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1939994659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as “El Movimiento” that galvanized the Mexican American community, from laborers to student activists, giving them not only a political voice to combat prejudice and inequality, but also a new sense of cultural awareness and ethnic pride. Beyond commemorating the past, Chicano Movement For Beginners seeks to reaffirm the goals and spirit of the Chicano Movement for the simple reason that many of the critical issues Mexican American activists first brought to the nation’s attention then—educational disadvantage, endemic poverty, political exclusion, and social bias—remain as pervasive as ever almost half a century later.
Author: Richard Rodriguez
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2004-02-03
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0553898833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his past, his parents, his culture — and so describes the high price of “making it” in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language ... and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
Author: Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781890951542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death--the elevation of death to the center of national identity. Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican-American identity politics, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz's innovative study marks a turning point in understanding Mexico's rich and unique use of death imagery. Unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans, whose denial of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people display and cultivate a jovial familiarity with death. This intimacy with death has become the cornerstone of Mexico's national identity. Death and Idea of Mexico focuses on the dialectical relationship between dying, killing, and the administration of death, and the very formation of the colonial state, of a rich and variegated popular culture, and of the Mexican nation itself. The elevation of Mexican intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a moment within that history--within a history in which the key institutions of society are built around the claims of the fallen. Based on a stunning range of sources--from missionary testimonies to newspaper cartoons, from masterpieces of artistic vanguards to accounts of public executions and political assassinations--Death and the Idea of Mexico moves beyond the limited methodology of traditional historiographies of death to probe the depths of a people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes the very terms of its social compact.