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OCCUPIED AMERICA: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper Collins, (1980, c 1972). A relatively early printing of this classic history which both shows (and attempts to explain) how Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent - came to be treated as second class citizens and their struggle for their rights. Covers from the conquest of the Southwest to remember the Alamo in Texas, to California and the Delano strike, the deportations of the 1930s and more. Notes, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-06380350X.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88552More details Price: $18.00 -
A GLASS OF WATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award-winning Chicano poet and activist. 215 pp. ISBN: 9780802119223.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 57031More details Price: $20.00 -
FREEDOMWAYS; Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement, Vol. 9, no. 4, Fourth Quarter, 1969.
Edition: First printing, a magazine.
New York: Freedomways Associates, 1969. First edition - Includes A Selected Bibliography on Mexican Americans and Native Americans by Ernest Kaiser; Chief Joseph and His People by John Henrik Clarke; a selection of cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, Jr; poetry by Mari Evans, Eric Burroughs and others, book reviews and more. pp 295-384. Cover art by Elizabeth Catlett.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (light university library stamp on front cover, no other markings).
Book ID: 79342More details Price: $30.00 -
CURRENTS FROM THE DANCING RIVER: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. SIGNED first edition - The most comprehensive and ambitious anthology of Latino writings published to date. SIGNED by FIVE contributors: Juan Felipe Herrera on the half title page; . Luis J. Rodriguez at his poem "The Quiet Woman; " Luis Alberto Urea at "Father's Day," Lucha Corpi at her poem 'Fugue" and Alberto Rivera Rios at his long poem "How the Mouth Works." Includes 135 contributions primarily by Cuban, Puerto Rican and Mexican Americans. Includes work by Francisco Alarcon, Rudolfo Anaya, Cristina Garcia, Richard Rodriguez, Helena Maria Viramontes, , Gloria Anzaldua, Mary Helen Ponce, Martin Espada, Pat Mora, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Louis Alberto Urrea, David Ungar, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lucha Corpi, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and many others. Includes note on the contributors. 571 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6001306.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers (one page dog-earred, light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 51200More details Price: $55.00 -
CURRENTS FROM THE DANCING RIVER: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. SIGNED first edition - The most comprehensive and ambitious anthology of Latino writings published to date. SIGNED by Luis Alberto Urea at "Father's Day," Includes 135 contributions primarily by Cuban, Puerto Rican and Mexican Americans. Includes work by Francisco Alarcon, Rudolfo Anaya, Cristina Garcia, Richard Rodriguez, Helena Maria Viramontes, , Gloria Anzaldua, Mary Helen Ponce, Martin Espada, Pat Mora, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Luis Alberto Urrea, David Ungar, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lucha Corpi, Benjamin Alire Saenz, and many others. Includes note on the contributors. 571 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6001306.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers (light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 75125More details Price: $28.50
