Chicana


Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The House on Mango Street
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
Caramelo
Gods of Jade and Shadow
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
The House of Broken Angels
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me
The Mixquiahuala Letters
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Under the Feet of Jesus
So Far from God
Mother Tongue
Ash by Malinda LoJuliet Takes a Breath by Gabby RiveraBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Color Purple by Alice Walker
Queer Female Authors of Color
86 books — 43 voters
The Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaEl Teatro de los Monstruos by Viviana CorderoPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Hispanic Lit
63 books — 46 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaThe Library Book by Susan OrleanWater to the Angels by Les StandifordCity of Quartz by Mike  Davis
Los Angeles (nonfiction)
115 books — 40 voters
The Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Complete Collected Poems by Maya AngelouThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo NerudaSelected Poems by Gwendolyn BrooksThe Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Favorite Poets of Color
600 books — 200 voters

And now, today, as we hear the call of the Raza, and as the dormant, "docile" Mexican American comes to life, we see the stirring of the people. With that call, the Chicana also stirs and I am sure that she will leave her mark upon the Mexican-American movement in the Southwest ...more
Enriqueta Vasquez, Enriqueta Vasquez And the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte (Hispanic Civil Rights)

Cherríe L. Moraga
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere.
Cherrie Moraga

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