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  • We Are Nature Defending Itself

    An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place

    by Shelley Armitage, Kimberly Blaeser, Norma E. Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Anel I. Flores, Christine Granados, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, María Eugenia Guerra, Lisa Lee Herrick, ire'ne lara silva, Diana López, Pat Mora, Gris Muñoz, Michelle Otero, Emmy Pérez, Petra Salazar, Sara L. Spurgeon, Carmen Tafolla, Margo Tamez, Luci Tapahonso, Laura Tohe, Naima Yael Tokunow, Krystal Monique Toney, Leeanna T. Torres, Diane Wilson, Diane Hueter Warner ...
    Series series Wittliff Collections Literary Series
    In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is “a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging writers who come together to give nature a voice in our literature and our lives.” Not least of the many benefits to readers are its contributions from prominent Latina writers, presented here as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Forced by Circumstance

    Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)

    by Norma Alarcón ...
    A landmark collection of the work of pioneering Chicana scholar, Norma Alarcón.Forced by Circumstance gathers in one volume foundational essays by, and interviews with one of the most highly esteemed intellectuals in Chicana/o, Latina/o, and Feminist Studies. Reading Alarcón’s essays—from her early work on Mexican feminist writer Rosario Castellanos to her recent reflections on the carceral state ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Fiestas in Laredo

    Matachines, Quinceañeras, and George Washington’s Birthday

    by Norma E. Cantú ...
    This book celebrates the many types of fiestas found in the border community of Laredo, Texas. Told from an insider's perspective and blending memoir, ethnography, and a folkloristic analysis, the author explores the meaning of the celebrations for the community. Norma E. Cantú focuses on three fiestas—Los Matachines, a folk-Catholic traditional dance; Quinceañeras, the coming-of-age celebrations ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Somos Tejanas!

    Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas

    Edited by Jody A. Marín, Norma E. Cantú ...
    2026 Outstanding Book Award for Non-Fiction, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas FocoAn expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain history of oppression, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico

    Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives

    by Norma E. Cantú ...
    Much ink has been spilled over the men of the Mexican Revolution, but far less has been written about its women. Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark, and Jennifer Speed set out to right this wrong in Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico, which celebrates the women of early Texas and Mexico who refused to walk a traditional path.The anthology embraces an expansive definition of the word revolutionary ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • El Curso de la Raza

    The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor

    by Thomas Ray Garcia, Aurelio Manuel Montemayor ...
    El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor tells the story of Chicano activist and self-described fronterizo Aurelio Manuel Montemayor, whose dual identities as an educator and political organizer informed his hitherto little-known role in developing a course, or curso, that cultivated Chicano leadership from the barrios. This memoir follows Montemayor during the formative ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Entre Guadalupe y Malinche

    Tejanas in Literature and Art

    Edited by Inés Hernández-Ávila, Norma E. Cantú ...
    Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences of women who identify as Tejanas in both the literary and visual arts.The writings of more than fifty ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Telling to Live

    Latina Feminist Testimonios

    by Latina Feminist Group ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or life stories—whether as poets, oral historians, literary scholars, ethnographers, or ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • meXicana Fashions

    Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction

    Edited by Aída Hurtado, Norma E. Cantú ...
    2020 Second Place, Best Nonfiction Multi Author, International Latino Book AwardsCollecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own relationships to particular garments, analyze the politics of dress, and examine the role of consumerism and entrepreneurialism in the production of creating and selling a style, meXicana Fashions examines and searches for meaning in these visible, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Ofrenda

    Liliana Wilson's Art of Dissidence and Dreams

    by Liliana Wilson, Antonia Castañeda, Gloria Anzaldúa, Marjorie Agosín, Kay Turner, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Guisela Latorre, George Vargas, Laura E. Pérez, Patricia Ruiz-Healy, Lourdes Pérez ...
    Series Book 17 - Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series
    Liliana Wilson’s art of resistance and protest, dissidence and dreams, consistently calls attention to injustice.Wilson belongs to a group of Chilean artists who were intimately shaped by the political turmoil and repression in Chile in the 1970s and 1980s and who have become self-exiled artists working outside of Chile but who are still tied to the political period and to its issues and concerns ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2019

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    The Chicano Studies Reader, the best-selling anthology of articles from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, has been newly expanded with a group of essays that focus on Chicana/o and Latina/o youth. This section, Generations against Exclusion, joins Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, (Re)Configuring Identities, Remapping the World, and Continuing to Push Boundaries. Introductions ... Read more

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  • Chicana Movidas

    New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era

    Edited by María Eugenia Cotera, Dionne Espinoza, Maylei Blackwell ...
    Winner, Best Multiauthor Nonfiction Book, International Latino Book Awards, 2019With contributions from a wide array of scholars and activists, including leading Chicana feminists from the period, this groundbreaking anthology is the first collection of scholarly essays and testimonios that focuses on Chicana organizing, activism, and leadership in the movement years. The essays in Chicana Movidas ... Read more

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