"By recreating his parents' generation as well as his own, Portales encourages readers to consider Latino progress since the days of his youth during the Eisenhower fifties, years that coalesced into the gradual unfurling of his ethnic consciousness." "Working within a tradition…
Elizabeth Martinez's unique Chicana voice arises from over 30 years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women's liberation and Chicano/a empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martinez presents the radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity. i…
Preface: Our Patron Saint -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- 1988 -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- 2002 -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- 2004 -- The Quene : A mervilos and magiquall tale of epistemological mischief, wherein there are revealed no secretes -- Chapter Seven -- 20…
"Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities…
"Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities…