Category: Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest

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Disidentifications by Jose Esteban Munoz

Jose Esteban Munoz | Disidentifications | There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Romance

We Set the Dark on Fire by Mejia Tehlor Kay

Mejia Tehlor Kay | We Set the Dark on Fire | In this daring and romantic fantasy debut perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and Latinx authors Zoraida Córdova and Anna-Marie McLemore, society

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Gender And Sexual Dissidence on Catalan And Spanish Television Series by Silvia Grassi

Silvia Grassi | Gender And Sexual Dissidence on Catalan And Spanish Television Series | Taking as a starting point an interpretation of the television medium as an Ideological State Apparatus, this book examines how gender roles and non-h

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Post-Borderlandia by T. Jackie Cuevas

T. Jackie Cuevas | Post-Borderlandia | Bringing Chicana/o studies into conversation with queer theory and transgender studies, Post-Borderlandia examines why gender variance is such a core

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Memoir

A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernandez | A Cup of Water Under My Bed | A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life

In this lyrical, coming-of-age memo

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Fiction

Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory by Emma Pérez

Emma Pérez | Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory | This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Micaela

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Fiction

Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez

Emma Perez | Gulf Dreams | Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsess

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Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, And Other Latina Longings by Juana Maria Rodriguez

Juana Maria Rodriguez | Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, And Other Latina Longings | ‘Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer des

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Black Dove by Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo | Black Dove | ‘In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial pro

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Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color by Gloria Anzaldua

Gloria Anzaldua | Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative And Critical Perspectives By Feminists Of Color | A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multip