Black Dove

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"In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Castillo writes about intergenerational stories from Mexico City to Chicago, and she narrates some of America's social injustices through the lens of motherhood"--

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Full title :Black Dove.

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Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Feminist Press at CUNY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:1558619240, 9781558619241
oclc:ocn947083854
LC Classification:PS3553.A8135
Dewey Decimal:814/.54

Introduction -- My mother's Mexico -- Remembering las cartoneras -- Her last tortillas -- Peel me a girl -- Bowing out -- On mothers, lovers, and other rivals -- When I died in Oaxaca -- Are hunters born or made? -- Swimming with sharks -- What's in a nombre -- Mi'jo's Canon in D Major -- Love, your son, Marcello -- And the woman fled into the desert -- Searching the other side -- Black dove -- Coda.

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Américains d'origine mexicaine -- Condi… Autobiographies Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural H… BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal M… Castillo, Ana Écrivaines américaines d'origine mexica… Families Familles américaines d'origine mexicain… Family & Relationships -- Parenting Mères et filles -- Biographies. -- État… Mexican American families Mexican American families -- Biography Mexican American women authors Mexican American women authors -- Biogr… Mexican Americans -- Social conditions Mexican Americans -- Social conditions … Mothers and daughters Mothers and daughters -- Biography. -- … United States