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BRINGING IT BACK HOME: Remittances to Meico from Migrant Workers in the United States (Monograph Series, 37)
by Fernando Lozano Ascencio (Translated by Anibal Yanez) Condition: It may seem odd to say that a book with 6 pages with highlighting can be very good, but for the highlighting, this book was treated well. Tiny edgewear. Content: The economics and sociology and problems of working in the US and supporting a family in Mexico. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE BURIED MIRROR: Reflections on Spain and the New World
by Carlos Fuentes. Four B&W and color photo sections. Companion to the TV mini-series. Condition: UNREAD 1992 Houghton Mifflin large soft cover, first printing. Four color and B&W photo sections. Content: Fuentes has used the occasion of the quincentennial of Columbus's voyage to the New World to reflect on the Latin American experience in this tie-in to the BBC series of the same name aired on the Discovery Channel on April, 1992. The theme of his thoughtful essay is the accommodation of cultures--Spain unique in the Old World in bringing together Christians, Moors, and Jews and the New World intermingling the blood and cultures of Spaniards, Indians, and blacks. It is the unavoidable encounter with the Other that has shaped the New World experience: "When we exclude, we betray ourselves," counsels Fuentes. "When we include, we find ourselves." Spanish America's predicament is that it inherited from Spain neither institutions nor attitudes necessary for full partnership in the modern capitalist world. Latin America remains derivative in culture and economy. Every page in this lapidary essay offers profound insight into the Spanish American psyche. [1 copy available]
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CHAINED EAGLE (POW)
by Everett Alvarez, Jr. and Anthony S. Pitch. B&W photo section. Condition: 1991 Dell Paperback, first thus, first printing. If this book has been read, it shows no evidence of it. Light tanning to page edges. Content: Navy Lieutenant Alvarez, a pilot, was shot down over North Vietnam in 1964 and held prisoner until 1973. In this engrossing account of the experience written with freelancer Pitch, he emerges as a duty-bound officer who held fast to his religious faith and "the values enshrined in the Constitution." The book is a top-drawer POW memoir, but what sets it apart is its unblinking concurrent narration of the Alvarez family's ordeal. His sister became an antiwar activist, and Alvarez's discovery of this had a demoralizing effect. A more severe psychological crisis revolved around the coldness of his wife's letters, a situation that reached its climax when she divorced him for another man. Alvarez's anguished response to the news amid dreadful physical conditions, and the manifest kindness of his comrades in captivity, is movingly told. In an upbeat conclusion, the prisoner's release is joyously described. [1 copy available]
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COLD ANGER: A Story of Faith and Power Politics (INSCRIBED Copy)
by Mary Beth Rogers. Introduction by Bill Moyers (World of Ideas). Condition: INSCRIBED by the biography subject, Ernesto Cortes. Gently pre-read 1991 University of North Texas Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Short pale vertical crease near front cover fore edge. Small edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: When Texas Business published it's list of the most powerful Texans in the late 1980's, Ernesto Cortes whas on it. WHO? Well, let me tell you who. Considering the importance which Latinos will have on American culture and politics in the 21st century, very little of a nonscholarly nature has been written about them. Rogers fills the gap somewhat with this journalistic biography of Ernesto Cortes, a grass-roots leader who teaches Latinos how to use the political system. A man who combines religion and secular ideology, Cortes is doing for the Latino communities nationally what Jesse Jackson did in Chicago a decade earlier. The book effectively captures the flavor of the movement in small, rural locales and in major urban centers, conveying Cortes's ideology and energy, as well as the issues close to the Latino heart. A welcome look at minority politics in the 1990s. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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EIGHT BRIGHT CANDLES: Courageous Women of Mexico (Women of the West series)
by Doris E. Perlin. Wonderful B&W photos and era drawings. Condition: NEW 1996 Republic of Texas Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: This is a compelling profile of daring women who chose not to comply with conditions dictated by their men or society. They instead fought for political freedom and raised their voices to improve life for less fortunate people. For a few, it was a matter of personal survival that caused them to make history-changing decisions and to rise above personal tragedy. Above all, the story of heroism and courage is told. Many of these women impacted the American Southwest, i.e., Madam Candelaria: Mysterious Presence at the Alamo. [1 copy available]
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FROM INDIANS TO CHICANOS: The Dynamics of Mexican American Culture
by James Diego Vigil. B&W drawings and photos illustrate. Condition: Very good +, 1994 Waveland Trade Paperback, first edition reprint (17th printing). It appears unread, but I can't swear to it. Tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: This book offers an informed and penetrating approach to the history of Chicano development. Anthropologist-historian Diego Vigil shows a perceptive and knowledgeable background in brief, clear outlines of each stage of Mexican-American history, charting the culture change sequences in the Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, Mexican Independence and Nationalism, and Anglo-American periods. He analyzes not only the events and the underlying conditions that affect them but also the dynamics that shaped contemporary Chicano life. The author has absorbed an enormous amount of information and has condensed it in a very readable and understandable fashion. Vigil's ethnohistorical introduction to the Mexican- American experience in the United States is simple yet comprehensive so that readers clearly understand historical developments and the specific socioeconomic, sociocultural and sociopsychological forces involved. [1 copy available]
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HUNGER OF MEMORY: The Education of Richard Rodrigues (An Autobiography)
by Richard Rodriguez. Condition: UNREAD 1988 Bantam paperback, 13th printing. Light edgewear with pale diagonal crease bottom front cover corner. Content: In this autobiographical work, the author attempts to put forth his views on a number of topics within a personal context. He does this within the framework of his being Mexican-American. His parsing of the effect that education had on his life is both interesting and food for thought. While education provided a means of connecting to the world outside his cultural enclave, it also created a distance between him and his cultural roots. As he assimilated into the larger world outside his immediate cultural milieu, it created a divide between him and his parents. As they remained in their self-contained, unassimilated world, only their mutual love for each other was able to bridge the chasm that education created, for figuratively they no longer spoke the same language. [1 copy available]
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IMAGES AND CONVERSATIONS: Mexican Americans Recall a Southwestern Past
by Patricia Preciado Martin. B&W photos by the late Louis Carlos Bernal. Condition: NEW 1996 University of Arizona soft cover [10.1 x 8.6 x 0.3 (110 pages)], second printing. Remainder. Content: A beautiful memoir by Arizona Hispanic Americans who remember when barrio was not a bad word. These 13 first-person accounts of southern Arizona residents capture a spirit evocative of the Hispanic presence in the Southwest, while striking photographs reflect the grace and dignity of their lives. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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INTRODUCTION TO CHICANO STUDIES (First Edition)
by Livie Isauro Duran and H. Russell Bernard. Condition: Good+, 1973 Macmillan Trade Paperback, no printing given. Peeling bottom spine with small edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: In this book, Chicano history begins with the great pre-Columbian civilizations of the ancient Americas - the Mays, the Aztecs, and the Incas. Essays detail all aspects of Hispanic/Latino history up to 1973. Obviously some of the essays and history may be dated, but most of it is not. Thoughtful and informative. Worth the read. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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LATINOS: A Biography of the People
by Earl Shorris. Condition: UNREAD 1994 W. W. Norton large Trade Paperback, second printing. Content: Latinos in the U.S., as Shorris defines them, are a complex of people of varied ancestry--Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Salvadoreans, for example--"in danger of becoming the largest insignificant minority in American history." Moving from the barrios of New York City's Spanish Harlem and East Los Angeles to Miami's Cuban community to Southern farms on which migrant workers endure abominable, Third World conditions to El Paso where Hispanics have launched an assault on the bastions of Anglo economic power, Shorris gives eloquent voice and texture to Latino dreams, history, culture and aspirations. His montage of social analysis, reportage, folkways and oral history is a magnificent portrait of diverse people struggling against stereotyping, racism, exploitation and the racismo which causes one Latino group to demean another. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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LA VIDA: A Puerto Rican Family in the Culture of Poverty - San Juan and New York
by Oscar Lewis (The Chidren of Sanchez). Condition: UNREAD, but sure not perfect, 1966 Vintage Giant Trade Paperback, no printing given. Problems: covers have edgewear; back cover fore edge is trimmed; and moderate to dark tanning to interior page edges. Very readable. Content: La Vida is an anthropological study that tells the story, in their own words, of an extended Puerto Rican family in San Juan and in New York. Lewis was able to go inside a family that trusted him enough to show just how difficult life can be. This book makes you think and shows you just how grinding poverty can eat away at ones soul. It also manages to show the vibrancy this family has. you are able to see the world from different members attempts at making a better life. It tells vividly how the streets of New York which hold so much promise ultimately cause most members of this family so much pain. This is a must read not only for latinos but for everyone. This book is more about the endurance of a soul as it is about ethnicity. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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LUIS LEAL: An Auto/Biography
by Mario T. Garcia. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2000 Univ. of Texas Press Trade Paperback, first edition, first printing. Content: Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance of Chicano literature, and, through his perceptive literary criticism, helped to legitimize it as a worthy field of study. His contributions to humanistic learning have brought him many honors, including Mexico's Aquila Azteca and the United States' National Humanities Medal. In this testimonio, or oral history, Luis Leal reflects upon his early life in Mexico, his intellectual formation at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, and his work and publications as a scholar at the University of Illinois and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Through insightful questions, Mario García draws out the connections between literature and history that have been a primary focus of Leal's work. He also elicits Leal's assessment of many of the prominent writers he has known and studied, including Mariano Azuela, William Faulkner, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Tomás Rivera, Rolando Hinojosa, Rudolfo Anaya, Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros, Richard Rodríguez, and Ana Castillo. [1 copy available]
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THE MAKING OF A MEXICAN AMERICAN MAYOR: Raymond L. Telles of El Paso
by Mario T. Garcia. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1998 Texas Western Press Trade Paperback, stated First Edition. Tiny edgewear. Content: Raymond Telles was the first Mexican American mayor of El Paso, Texas, and the most significant Mexican American of his time. This book details his political career from 1948, when he won a hotly contested election for county clerk, to his ambassadorship to Costa Rica. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE OLD ONES OF NEW MEXICO
by Robert Coles. Photos by Alex Harris. Condition: UNREAD 1984 Harvest/HBJ softcover revised edition. Two scratches on the front cover near hinge with small edgewear. Interior clean & tight. 40 B&W photos. Content: "These 'old ones,' these wonderfully expressive storytellers, these wonderfully and deeply introspective individuals (who are fulfilling their human destiny by contemplating things, asking themselves about what truly matters, and why), can be of assistance to those studying literature, philosophy, religion. Here, after all, are twentieth century Americans who knew in their bones how to embrace narratives, their very own, and who also knew how to describe the world and take its measure." Both text and photos are treasures. [1 copy available]
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PAIN & PROMISE: THE CHICANO TODAY (With Accounts of the Reawakening of a Proud and Oppressed People)
edited by Edward Simmen. Condition: Very good 1972 Mentor paperback, first printing. Pale spine crease & tiny edgewear/interior edges tanned but otherwise clean & tight. Content: Cover's the struggle and political emergence of Chicanos from Cesar Chavez to Reies Tijerina to Jose Angel Guiterrez (the most visible icons) to one of the most prominent political and social minorities in America. [1 copy available]
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PLACES LEFT UNFINISHED AT THE TIME OF CREATION (Signed copy)
by John Phillip Santos. Family Photo cover. Condition: New 1999 Viking (Penguin) Trade Paperback, first thus. Perfect. Signed on flyleaf by author. Content: Mexican American journalist John Phillip Santos's lyrical and loving memoir explores his family's history in magnificent prose touched with the singing cadences of his Spanish-language heritage yet vibrant with the energy of American English. It's a combination utterly suited to his native San Antonio, where las viejitas--the little old ladies of the Garcia and Santos families -- ruled over their children and grandchildren with the toughness and grandeur of the Mexico they left during the revolution of 1914. "Poised between those ancient Indio origins from the south ... and our Mestizo future in the north," these new Texans made Mexico live for their descendants in the magical stories and folkloric practices of an older culture. Yet there was also a sense of secrets kept and cherished possessions left behind, of people who had traveled far and traveled light. This is a book that restores to memory the drama not just of a single family but of an entire people whose past is more closely entwined with that of the United States than some Americans care to remember. [1 copy available]
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READINGS ON LA RAZA: The Twentieth Century
edited by Matt S. Meier & Feliciano Rivera. Condition: UNREAD 1974 Hill & Wang hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. White cover shows some dark "scuff" marks (I can't get those out) with tag removal marks on loose endpage. Interior pages clean & tight. Content: Essays on the plight of Mexican-American/Chicanos in 20th Century Southwest America. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TWO EAGLES IN THE SUN: Your Questions Answered About Mexican Hispanics In The Border Southwest & Other Hispanics In The United States (Signed Copy)
by Richard C. Campbell, Foreword by Joe Olvera. Gabriel Sanchez cover art. Condition: SIGNED by arthor, but gift inscription bottom of page. NEW 1995 EDITTS...Publishing (Las Cruces) Trade Paperback first edition. Tiny edgewear at corners only flaw. B&W illustrations. Content: Detailed look at Hispanic history, life, language, and traditions in America today. Written in a question-and-answer format, this wide-ranging informational guide addresses everything from "Why is Spanish called 'the Language of the Angels'?"; to "Why is the Virgin of Guadalupe Important to Hispanics?"; to "What are the usual stereotypes about Hispanics?" A first rate information source accessible to readers of all backgrounds with extensive appendix and bibliography. Not the revised edition - it has a shorter title. [1 copy available]
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VOICES FROM THE WILD HORSE DESERT: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches
by Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley. Foreword by Tio Kleberg. Intro by A. CArolina Castillo Crimm. . B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1997 UT Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Problems: Small edgewear and a name on the loose end page. Content: Founded before the Civil War, the King and Kenedy Ranches have become legendary for their size, their wealth, and their endless herds of cattle. A major factor in the longevity of these ranches has always been the loyal workforce of vaqueros (Mexican and Mexican American cowboys) and their families. Some of the vaquero families have worked on the ranches through five or six generations. In this book, Monday and Colley bring together the voices of these men and women who make ranching possible in the Wild Horse Desert. From 1989 to 1995, the authors interviewed more than sixty members of vaquero families, ranging in age from 20 to 93. Their words provide a panoramic view of ranch work and life that spans most of the twentieth century. The vaqueros and their families describe all aspects of life on the ranches, from working cattle and doing many kinds of ranch maintenance to the home chores of raising children, cooking, and cleaning. The elders recall a life of endless manual labor that nonetheless afforded the satisfaction of jobs done with skill and pride. The younger people describe how modernization has affected the ranches and changed the lifeways of the people who work there. [1 copy available]
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WINGS OF THE MORNING
by Orestes Lorenzo. B&W photo section. Condition: UNREAD 1995 St. Martin's Paperbacks first printing. Tiny edgewear. Content: The most romantic story of the 20th century, IMHO. A moving account of the much-reported story of former Cuban Air Force pilot Lorenzo, who defected to the U.S., then went back to Cuba and rescued his family in an aging Cessna. [1 copy available]
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WOMEN'S WORK & CHICANO FAMILIES: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley
by Patricia Zavella. B&W charts. Condition: NEW 1987 Cornell University Press Trade Paperback, sixth printing. Content: Mexican-American women are entering the labor force in increasing numbers, yet little research has dealt with the relationship between their wage labor and their household labor. Drawing on revisionist social theories relating to Chicano family structure as well as on feminist theory, Zavella paints a compelling picture of the Chicano women who work in northern California's fruit and vegetable canneries. Her book combines social history, shop floor ethnography, and in-depth interview techniques to explore the linkages between Chicano family life and gender inequality in the labor market. [1 copy available]
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