Some Books about Chicano - Happy Chicano Reading!

Este libro, que fue un bestseller la primera vez que fue publicado hace 35 años, cuenta la historia de la familia Sandoval, una familia que huye a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida. Héctor, el patriarca de los Sandoval trabaja en el campo y lucha por alimentar a su familia mientras se enfrenta a la discriminación y la injusticia que encuentra esta nueva sociedad. De sus hijos, sólo Pete logra alcanzar una existencia un tanto más cómoda, o por lo menos por un tiempo. Pero cuando Mariana, la hija de Pete se enamora de un estudiante americano llamado David, el choque cultural es inminente. Por temor a lo que digan sus amigos y su familia, David se rehúsa a casarse con Mariana que sin embargo está embarazada con su hijo. Las complicaciones de su relación y la complejidad de sus diferencias culturales reflejan la cambiante realidad de la política racial en la cultura americana contemporánea.

En la introducción, el aclamado y reconocido periodista Rubén Martínez, autor de Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail y The New Americans analiza el impacto que tuvo la primera publicación de Chicano, lo que hizo por la carrera del autor y se pregunta cómo ha cambiado nuestra percepción del texto desde su primera aparición.

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Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing on Mexican immigrants to Los Angeles from 1900 to 1945, George J. Sanchez explores the process by which temporary sojourners altered their orientation to that of permanent residents, thereby laying the foundation for a new Mexican-American culture. Analyzing not only formal programs aimed at these newcomers by the United States and Mexico, but also the world created by these immigrants through family networks, religious practice, musical entertainment, and work and consumption patterns, Sanchez uncovers the creative ways Mexicans adapted their culture to life in the United States. When a formal repatriation campaign pushed thousands to return to Mexico, those remaining in Los Angeles launched new campaigns to gain civil rights as ethnic Americans through labor unions and New Deal politics. The immigrant generation, therefore, laid the groundwork for the emerging Mexican-American identity of their children..
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In coordination with Bilingual Press, Amber Lotus is proud to present the Chicano Art 2009 wall calendar, showcasing the works of contemporary Chicano and Chicana artists. These works bring into sharp focus the rich diversity of an art movement that is now achieving full recognition in the art community at large. This lavish and comprehensive collection features art from established masters as well as emerging artists, on themes that include community values, borders and biculturalism, spirituality, personal feelings and shared experiences, cultural icons and nontraditional representations. Caption material appears in both English and Spanish..
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Considered a pioneering achievement when first published nearly two decades ago, From Indians to Chicanos--now in a completely revised second edition--continues to offer readers an informed and penetrating approach to the history of Chicano development. Anthropologist-historian Diego Vigil shows a perceptive and knowledgeable background in brief, clear outlines of each stage of Mexican-American history, charting the culture change sequences in the Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial, Mexican Independence and Nationalism, and Anglo-American periods. He analyzes not only the events and the underlying conditions that affect them but also the dynamics that shaped contemporary Chicano life. The author has absorbed an enormous amount of information and has condensed it in a very readable and understandable fashion. Vigil's ethnohistorical introduction to the Mexican- American experience in the United States is simple yet comprehensive so that readers clearly understand historical developments and the specific socioeconomic, sociocultural and sociopsychological forces involved..
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illustrated, many photos: basis for TV series .
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If you don't have Mexican ancestors, this book will make you with you had. If you are one of the millions of Americans who can trace your heritage across the Rio Grande, then get ready to come face to face with your own history In Finding Your Mexican Ancestors, you will discover direct, easy-to-follow instructions that will lead you through Mexico's carefully preserved records. George and Peggy Ryskamp's easy style and dynamic approach make finding and using parish records, civil records, and other useful Mexican resources as simple as it is thrilling..
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Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement is the first comprehensive consideration of Chicano art in almost two decades and the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traditionally described as work created by Americans of Mexican descent, Chicano art first emerged during the vibrant Chicano rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This catalog and exhibition explore the experimental tendencies within today's Chicano art, which is oriented less toward painting and polemical assertion and more toward conceptual art, performance, film, photography, and media-based art, as well as "stealthy" artistic interventions in urban spaces. Three essays by Rita Gonzalez, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega explore the topic in depth. With more than two hundred color illustrations, twenty-five individual artist portfolios, and a wryly subversive chronology of significant moments in Chicano cultural history, Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement charts new territory and provides a conceptual sampling of Chicano art today..
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Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. 

Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González also faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father’s abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. His only sense of connection gets forged in a violent relationship with an older man. By finding his calling as a writer, and by revisiting the relationship with his father during a trip to Mexico, González finally claims his identity at the intersection of race, class, and sexuality. The result is a leap of faith that every reader who ever felt like an outsider will immediately recognize..
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In the years since the first edition of this important study was published, the changes in the Mexican American community in the United States have been great indeed. This extensively revised edition—with a new title—includes expanded chapters on these new developments of the recent past: the Chicano Movimiento of the late sixties and seventies; their considerable political and economic achievements; improvements in immigration law; the creative explosion in literature and the fine arts; the increased role of Chicanas; the rise and decline of four great leaders—César Chávez, "Corky" Gonzales, Reies López Tijerina, and José Angel Gutiérrez. An extensive account of the pre-Columbian world and the impact of the early Spanish explorers and settlers takes note of new findings and interpretations.
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