Literature
Floaters
Poet Martín Espada recently won the National Book Award for his collection of poetry, Floaters. The book honors asylum seekers who have drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas.
Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
Disponible en Inglés, solamente. | Available in English, only.
Speakers for a New America:
The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political...
Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary
Disponible en Inglés, solamente. | Available in English, only.
New Press:
Black Fire, the celebrated first volume of Nelson Peery’s riveting autobiography, told the story of his childhood and teenage years during the Depression and his subsequent political awakening as a soldier in the all-black 93rd Infantry Division in World War...
¡NI UNA MÁS ! – ¿Quién está matando a las mujeres de Ciudad Juárez y Chihuahua? NOT ONE MORE – Who Is Killing...
Incluye texto en español e Inglés. | Includes Spanish and English text.
Extracto:
Está tragedia empezó en 1993, fue entonces que se empezó el conteo de las muertas de Ciudad Juárez. En el año 2000 los asesinatos se extendieron a Chihuahua. Según Amnestía Internacional, desde entonces, 370 mujeres han sido encontradas...
The Future Is Up to Us – A revolutionary talking politics with the American people
Disponible en Inglés, solamente. | Available in English, only.
Speakers for a New America:
Following the publication of his seminal Black Fire: The Making Of An American Revolutionary, in 1994, Peery, with almost 60 years in the 'movement' behind him, crossed the country meeting with individuals and groups, talking and listening....
Black Fire: The Making of an American Revolutionary
Disponible en Inglés, solamente. | Available in English, only.
New Press:
Available in paperback for the first time, Black Fire is a personal account of one soldier’s political awakening. In prose the Washington Post hailed as “Wolfean or Whitmanesque,” Peery writes eloquently of the passions that led him to fight abroad...
