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Alcala, Kathleen.
THE DESERT REMEMBERS MY NAME: On Family and Writing.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of "lyrical and entirely absorbing personal essays by the esteemed Chicana writer and gifted storyteller" which explore the many meanings of family. SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2010. Notes. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-26273.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.) Promotional postcard laid in.

Book ID: 46796

Keywords: chicana, essays, family, jewish heritage, Latin American Lit and History

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[Anthology] Miller, John and Morgan, Genevieve,editors.
SOUTHWEST STORIES, Tales from the Desert.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1993). First edition - An anthology including writers ranging from D. H. Lawrence and Georgia O'Keefe to Larry McMurty, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros and Barry Gifford, Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-02167.

Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 61448

Keywords: anthology, chicana, hispanic, latina, native american, Southwestern writers and the Southwest, women writers

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[Anthology, signed] Milligan, Bryce; Mary Guerrero Milligan and Angela de Hoyos, editors.
DAUGHTERS OF THE FIFTH SUN: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry

Edition: First printing.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Contributors include Julia Alvarez, Cherie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Cecile Pineda, Pat Mora, Sandra Cisneros, Lucha Corpi and many others. SIGNED on the title page by two of the editors: Bryce Milligan and Mary Guerrero Milligan. Foreword by Maria Hinojosa and extensive biographical notes on the contributors. 283 pp. ISBN: 1-573220094.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 90705

Keywords: anthology, chicana, Latin American Lit and History
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[Anthology, signed] Milligan, Bryce; Mary Guerrero Milligan and Angela de Hoyos, editors. Lucha Corpi, Cherie Moraga and Pat Mora, signed.
DAUGHTERS OF THE FIFTH SUN: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry

Edition: First printing.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Contributors include Julia Alvarez, Cherie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Cecile Pineda, Pat Mora, Sandra Cisneros, Lucha Corpi and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors: Lucha Corpi at her contribution "Four, Free and Illegal"; Cherie Moraga at her poem "New Mexican Confession" and Pat Mora at the poem "Uncoiling." Foreword by Maria Hinojosa and extensive biographical notes on the contributors. 283 pp. ISBN: 1573220094.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 60352

Keywords: anthology, chicana, Latin American Lit and History
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Castellano, Olivia.
BLUE HORSE OF MADNESS.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

Sacramento, California: Crystal Clear Printers, (1987). First edition - Sacramento poet's second collection, containing many poems influenced by her Chicana childhood in South Texas. Illustrated with drawings by Jim S. Castellano. 97 pp plus final illustration.

Condition: Near fine in white illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 67921

Keywords: california, chicana, latin american literature, Poetry, south texas

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Castillo, Ana
LOVERBOYS

Edition: First printing.

New York: Norton, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this Chicana writer from Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-393-039595.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 64240

Keywords: chicana, Latin American Lit and History, short stories

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Chavez, Denise
LOVING PEDRO INFANTE.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's third novel - "Teresina ("Tere") vila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working "in the hinterlands of life" in Cabritoville, New Mexico, a small dusty town near El Paso, Texas. The love of her life is Lucio, a smooth-talking ne'er-do-well who will never leave his wife and ties Tere's heart in knots with a string of empty promises. Her diversions are few but intense, and center around her best fri, Irma, and her membership in the Pedro Infante Fan Club #256." 325 pp. ISBN: 0-374194114.

Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Book ID: 66382

Keywords: chicana, Latin American Lit and History, new mexico

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Cisneros, Sandra.
WOMAN HOLLERING CREEK and Other Stories.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Random House, 1991. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised collection by this award-winning Chicana writer (born in Chicago to a Mexican father and Mexican-American mother). SIGNED by the author on the title page.. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-394-576543.

Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.

Book ID: 25667

Keywords: chicago, chicana, Latin American Lit and History, latina, mexican-american

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Garca, Diana,
WHEN LIVING WAS A LABOR CAMP.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2000). First edition - The first collection of poems by this writer who was born in a labor camp in the San Joaquin Valley, one which is a "bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there." Includes an introduction by Garcia. A title in the Camino del Sol series. Glossary. 102 pp. ISBN: 0-816520437.

Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 77552

Keywords: california, chicana, first collection, latin american, latinx, migrant workers, Poetry

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Garcia, Elizabeth A.
ONE BLOODY SHIRT AT A TIME: A Deputy Ricos Tale.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

By the author, (2012). First edition - The first novel featuring deputy Margarita Ricos - she is "not just any deputy. Shes smart. Shes courageous. Shes a twenty-five-year-old Chicana with attitude who grew up on the edge of the United States in Terlingua, Texas. There, the peoples and cultures of two countries are blended, more than separated, by the once-fierce Rio Grande. Terlingua is an unincorporated settlement built around a mercury mining ghost town of the same name." 269 pp. ISBN: 978-1470192846.

Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (a bit of curling to the covers).

Book ID: 78048

Keywords: big bend, chicana, Mystery - Suspense & Detective Fiction, rio grande, texas

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Kantrowitz, Andrea and the members of Watsonville Canning, Local 912.
SEVEN SILKSCREEN PRINTS OF THE WATSONVILLE, CA CANNERY STRIKE OF 1985-1987.

Edition: First printing.

By the artist, 1987. SIGNED first edition - A complete set of six original two-color silkscreen prints, each approximately 18" by 14" with an image size of 13 3/4" 10 1/2" and a 7th additional larger print at 18" by 21 1/2". All are signed in the plate and dated 1987. Three of the prints are additionally handsigned by the artist. The Watsonville strike was a successful strike of Mexican American frozen food workers (primarily women) in Watsonville, California, in 1985-1987, one of the few successful strikes of the 1980s. With no initial support from the Teamsters Union, it was unique in being led primarily by the mostly Chicana workers who were facing significant wage cuts. "Over a period…
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By the artist, 1987. SIGNED first edition - A complete set of six original two-color silkscreen prints, each approximately 18" by 14" with an image size of 13 3/4" 10 1/2" and a 7th additional larger print at 18" by 21 1/2". All are signed in the plate and dated 1987. Three of the prints are additionally handsigned by the artist. The Watsonville strike was a successful strike of Mexican American frozen food workers (primarily women) in Watsonville, California, in 1985-1987, one of the few successful strikes of the 1980s. With no initial support from the Teamsters Union, it was unique in being led primarily by the mostly Chicana workers who were facing significant wage cuts. "Over a period of 18 months, not one of the 1,000 Watsonville Canning strikers returned to work. This incredible unity was the key to the strikers' ultimate victory. The strike paralyzed this rural California town. Several hundred maintained the picket line and fifty to several hundred people attended strategy meetings where they argued over the direction of the strike." It is appropriate that these prints are very empathetic portraits of some of these women and their children or families, with their own words about why they are striking and how they are managing to continue for so long. The artist Andrea Kantrowitz commented that this is "a set of six silk-screen prints based on countless sketches done on the picket line during 1985 and 1986. I spent weeks with the workers, on the picket lines, in the union hall, listening to and transcribing their stories. When I first went to Watsonville, I planned to take photos and work with them in my studio. I soon found that working directly, on site, brought me much closer to the strikers and allowed me much deeper insight into the reality of their lives." Ironically while the strikers might have won this battle (although the final resolution was, in reality, a compromise), the continuing changes to the frozen food packing industry, including relocating to Mexico after NAFTA, meant that by the year 2000 only one plant remained open in the former "frozen food capital of the world."
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Condition: The six prints in the original set are in near fine to fine condition with some having minor creasing near the edges, not affecting the images. The larger print is in very good condition with some edgewear.

Book ID: 91622

Keywords: California, chicana, labor movements, picket line
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Maciel, David R.; Isidro D. Ortiz and Maria Herrera-Sobek, editors.
CHICANO RENAISSANCE: Contemporary Cultural Trends.

Edition: First printing.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2000.). Hardcover first edition - "Among the lasting legacies of the Chicano Movement is the cultural flowering that it inspired--one that has steadily grown from the 1960s to the present. . . This collection examines changes across a broad range of cultural forms--art, literature, music, cinema and television, radio, and theater--with an emphasis on the last two decades. Original articles by both established and emerging scholars review such subjects as the growth of Tejano music and the rise of Selena, how films and television have affected the Chicana/o experience, the evolution of Chicana/o art over the last twenty years, and postmodern literary trends." Contents include All Over the Map: La Onda Tejana and the…
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Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2000.). Hardcover first edition - "Among the lasting legacies of the Chicano Movement is the cultural flowering that it inspired--one that has steadily grown from the 1960s to the present. . . This collection examines changes across a broad range of cultural forms--art, literature, music, cinema and television, radio, and theater--with an emphasis on the last two decades. Original articles by both established and emerging scholars review such subjects as the growth of Tejano music and the rise of Selena, how films and television have affected the Chicana/o experience, the evolution of Chicana/o art over the last twenty years, and postmodern literary trends." Contents include All Over the Map: La Onda Tejana and the Making of Selena by Roberto R. Caldern; Outside Inside-The Immigrant Workers: Creating Popular Myths, Cultural Expressions, and Personal Politics in Borderlands Southern California by Juan Gomez-Quiones; "Yo soy chicano": The Turbulent and Heroic Life of Chicanas/os in Cinema and Television by David R. Maciel and Susan Racho; The Politics of Chicano Representation in the Media by Virginia Escalante; Chicana/o and Latina/o Gazing: Audiences of the Mass Media by Diana I. Ros; An Historical Overview/Update on the State of Chicano Art by George Vargas; Contemporary Chicano Theater by Arturo Ramirez; Breaking the Silence: Developments in the Publication and Politics of Chicana Creative Writing, 1973-1998 by Edwina Barvosa-Carter and Trends and Themes in Chicana/o Writings in Postmodern Times by Francisco A. Lomel, Teresa Marquez, and Mara Herrera-Sobek. Illustrated with photographs, bibliographies or notes at the end of each article. Index. 330 pp. ISBN: 9780816520206.
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Condition: Fine in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (a new copy)

Book ID: 57851

Keywords: anthology, art, chicana, cultural trends, drama, Latin American Lit and History, literary criticism

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Martinez, Demetria
THE BLOCK CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2012). First edition - A poetic short novel set in Alburqueque and focusing on a young woman, an immigrant from Mexico, working as a waitress and expecting her first child. Volume 11 in the Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series. 95 pp.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 63343

Keywords: albuquerque, arc, chicana, immigration, Latin American Lit and History, mothers and daughters, new mexico, uncorrected proof

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Martinez, Demetria
BREATHING BETWEEN THE LINES: Poems.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - A powerful collection of poems by this Chicana writer, who is also involved in the Arizona Border Rights Project / Derechos Humanos, and who in fact stood trial for her work. INSCRIBED on the dedication page and dated in the year of publication. Includes an afterword, in which she talks about some of her experiences as a writer and activist. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-816517983.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 84852

Keywords: chicana, Latin American Lit and History, women authors
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Martinez, Demetria
BREATHING BETWEEN THE LINES: Poems.

Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - A powerful collection of poems by this Chicana writer, who is also involved in the Arizona Border Rights Project / Derechos Humanos, and who in fact stood trial for her work. Boldly INSCRIBED on the dedication page and dated in the year of publication. Includes an afterword, in which she talks about some of her experiences as a writer and activist. 60 pp. ISBN: 0-816517983.

Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 91618

Keywords: chicana, Latin American Lit and History, women authors
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[Mendoza, Lydia] Broyles-Gonzalez, Yolanda.
LYDIA MENDOZA'S LIFE IN MUSIC / LA HISTORIA DE LYDIA MENDOZA: Norteno Tejano Legacies.

Edition: First printing.

Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket : "Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920s and continued well into the 1980s, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke . . . This bilingual edition presents Lydia Mendoza's historia in an interview between the artist and Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez: first is the English translation,…
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Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dust jacket : "Lydia Mendoza began her legendary musical career as a child in the 1920s, singing for pennies and nickels on the streets of downtown San Antonio. She lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas, where she was born. The life story of this Chicana icon encompasses a 60-year singing career that began with the dawn of the recording industry in the 1920s and continued well into the 1980s, ceasing only after she suffered a devastating stroke . . . This bilingual edition presents Lydia Mendoza's historia in an interview between the artist and Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez: first is the English translation, then the Spanish original, as told by Mendoza herself. Broyles-Gonzalez concludes the volume with an extended essay on the significance of Mendoza's career and her place in Tejana music and Chicana studies. . . She sang the songs of the people across generations in the old tradition; all are indigenous to the Americas, and many of them to Texas. It is the music that emerged from the experiences of native peoples (on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border) within the colonial context of the nineteenth century." Photographs, chronology, notes, index. 235 pp. CD included. En espanol y ingles. ISBN: 0-195127064.
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Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 37534

Keywords: bilingual, biography, borderlands, chicana, espanol, latin american, Music and Musicians, texas, traditional music, women

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Scharf, Lois, and Joan M.Jensen, editors.
DECADES OF DISCONTENT: The Women's Movement, 1920-1940.

Edition: First printing.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1983). Hardcover first edition - A collection of 13 essays which portray the diversity of women's interests and challenge the notion that American women were not politically active from 1920 to 1940. Among the topics covered are 'The New Woman' by Estelle B. Freedman; 'Chicanas and Mexican Immigrant Families, 1920-1940' by Rosalinda M. Gonzalez; 'Culture and Radical Politics by Norma Pratt; a photo essay on the work of Marion Post Wolcott 'Photographing Women' by Julie Boddy; "Discontented Black Feminists" by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and more. Edited and with an introduction by Lois Scharf and Joan M.Jensen. The 28th volume in the series, Contributions in Women's Studies. Illustrated with photographs and tables. Index, notes on contributors. viii, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-313226946.

Condition: Fine (as new) in green cloth with silver titles.

Book ID: 92263

Keywords: black women, chicana, essays, history, housewives, laborers, reference book, women's movement, Women's Studies

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