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c2005
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"...explores the extraordinary history and heritage of Colorado's Latino culture from the 1500s to the 1940s--from the Aztecas and the Spanish Conquistadors to the 1846 U.S./Mexican War, from the rise of the migrant farm workers to the zoot suits riots, and everything in between"--Container.
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2016.
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"In The Women of La Raza, Enriqueta Vasquez brings together her long-time political commitment with her marvelous sense of curiosity and wonder to trace the contributions of women in Mexican and Mexican American history through the centuries, starting with pre-Columbian indigenous ancestors all the way to the present time."--from the preface by Lorena Oropeza.
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©2006
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Collects columns written by Enriqueta Vásquez from 1968 to 1972 for the Chicano newspaper "El Grito del Norte," in which she tries to provoke her fellow Chicanos to action by writing about racism, sexism, imperialism, and poverty. Includes photographs, notes, and introductions.
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"The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote a chapter at best to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas." "500 Years of Chicana Women's History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The...
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"Coulter touches on the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrant's crimes, churches that get paid by the government for their "charity", greedy Republican businessmen, and campaign consultants--all of whom are profiting handsomely from mass immigration that's tearing the country apart. Applying her trademark biting humor to the...
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[2007]
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A hybrid collection of texts written and performed on the road, from Mexico City to San Francisco, from Central America to central California, illustrated throughout with photos and artwork. Rants, manifestos, newspaper cutups, street theater, anti-lectures, love poems, and riffs tell the story of what it's like to live outlaw and brown in the United States. Herrera is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside; he...
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[2016]
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Anthologized, historical perspective of actions of the Chicano Movement in Pueblo, Colorado --
El Movimiento is a march through the changing times of the early 1970s in Pueblo, Colorado. Pueblo was in a strategic location in the state and hosted national speakers and conferences. War on Poverty monies from the Johnson administration poured in creating opportunities for changes in education, health, housing. Returning Vietnam veterans raised their...
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