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Huizache WomenAuthor: Estella GonzalezPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublication Date: Oct 31, 2023Number of Pages: 251 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1558859780ISBN-13: 9781558859784

Young Rene's teacher is calling role one morning, and Rene is dismayed to hear someone else answer to his name. It's not only that he thought he was the only person with that name, but also that the...

In the opening piece, The Lives of Saints," an immigrant family from Costa Rica regularly prays to a litany of saints to help deal with all that life throws their way-including alcoholism, marital...

Jasminne M?ndez, a Dominican American educator, performance artist and writer, reveals her experiences with chronic illness and infertility in these moving essays and poems.Author: Jasminne...

Award-winning poet Jimmy Santiago Baca returns with another impassioned collection about social issues, including racial injustice, greed and abuse of power by politicians and police.Author: Jimmy...

Decades of civil wars in Central America, combined with the need for manpowerin the United States, have made the Hispanic migrant worker a stock characterin urban American life. This is the story of...

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. PALABRAS DE MEDIODIA/NOON WORDS is Lucha Corpi's pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in...

Palabras Desde El Otro Lado de la MuerteAuthor: Ariel DorfmanPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublication Date: Sep 30, 2022Number of Pages: 104 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

Queering the Border: EssaysAuthor: Emma P?rezPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublication Date: Nov 30, 2022Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1558859586ISBN-13:...

This is the Hispanic Roots, an all-American story of poverty, immigration, struggle and success. It focuses on three generations of Villasenor's kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in...

Testimony of a ShifterAuthor: Emma P?rezPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublication Date: Oct 31, 2023Number of Pages: 198 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1558859799ISBN-13: 9781558859791

Attorney Luis Montez and Felix Gato" Guerrero, childhood friends who have survived numerous obstacles, are finally prospering. Luis is making more money in his chosen profession than he ever has and...

In this bilingual picture book, astronaut Jos? M. Hern?ndez recounts his childhood as the son of Mexican migrant workers and his life-long dream to travel to the stars.Author: Jos? M...

The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and SuperstitionsAuthor: Daniel Chac?nPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublication Date: Mar 31, 2024Number of Pages: 157 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The Moths and Other Stories / Las palomillas de la noche y otros relatos (Spanish Edition) (English and Spanish Edition)Author: Helena Maria ViramontesPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublication Date:...

Private detective Willie Cuesta is hired to find the missing son of a famed cigar manufacturer and uncovers a bitter rivalry between two huge tobacco conglomerates, a counterfeit cigar ring and...

Fiction.Latino/Latina Studies. "A dramatic and realistic contemporary novel about a Latino boy struggling to grow into manhood and somehow make the right choices in the absence of adult guidance"...

This engrossing memoir charts Ruiz's journey toward self-identity, tracing the tortuous path of her life--a life in which Ruiz assumed contradictory roles: gang chola, high school drop-out, disowned...

Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. This bilingual edition combines the original English-language version with the first-ever Spanish translation of the critically acclaimed play by Luis Valdez, a work...