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
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
Animal Farm by George OrwellReservation Blues by Sherman AlexieThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins1984 by George OrwellBless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
Books Banned in Arizona 2012
45 books — 18 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 StandifordCollateral Stardust by Nikki Nash
Los Angeles (nonfiction)
121 books — 46 voters
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home by Ana CastilloCaramelo by Sandra CisnerosBlack Dove by Ana CastilloThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosGoddess of the Americas / La Diosa de Las Americas by Ana Castillo
Chicana Authors
12 books — 2 voters

Binti by Nnedi OkoraforThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky ChambersMirrored in Evergreen by B. PigeonWorm in a Jar by B. Pigeon
QTPOC in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
104 books — 35 voters
Welcome to Crash by Lina LangleyShadowhouse Fall by Daniel José OlderThe Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-GarciaHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoThe Tiger's Daughter by K. Arsenault Rivera
2017 Latinx/Latin American SFF
16 books — 17 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)

Sergio Troncoso
“ The either/or proposition that forces you to choose between your community and, say, your country has never been true. The very skills we learn to cross borders within ourselves help us to cross borders toward others outside our community. ”
― Sergio Troncoso, Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds

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