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 Color Purple by Alice WalkerGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinZami by Audre LordeAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Books by LGBTQ People of Color
513 books — 148 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

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
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. JemisinKindred by Octavia E. ButlerWho Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Fantasy Novels by Women of Color
262 books — 194 voters

Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaJuliet Takes a Breath by Gabby RiveraChicana Lesbians by Carla TrujilloGulf Dreams by Emma PérezThe Last Generation by Cherríe L. Moraga
Chicana/Latina Lesbian Books
87 books — 36 voters
Massacre of the Dreamers by Ana CastilloMy Wicked Wicked Ways by Sandra CisnerosThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosBorderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaLoose Woman by Sandra Cisneros
Xicanisma
7 books — 1 voter

Protesting this war, Chicano/as rose to condemn the killing fields with the slogan "Raza Si, Guerra No,” we wanted our young men here fighting for justice instead of in a faraway war. (From The Women of Raza) ...more
Enriqueta Vasquez

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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