Welcome to the virtual HIspanic Heritage Read-In!
Welcome to the Virtual HIspanic Heritage Read-In! Discover, read, and enjoy a variety of books by Hispanic and Latinx authors through your virtual PCC Library. Plus, when you use the PCC Library online, you have access to streaming media, too! Scroll down to access all materials.
eBooks
eBooks are books that you can read online. Click on the titles to read any of the below eBooks!
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Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago : My Life, My Work, My Art Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jóse Gamaliel González, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, González looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to call home.
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Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa Winner of the American Book Award. “This moving memoir of a young Chicano boy’s maturing into a self-accepting gay adult is a beautifully executed portrait of the experience of being gay, Chicano and poor in the United States. . . . González writes in a poetic yet straightforward style that heightens the power of his story.”—Publishers Weekly
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The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement In The Chicano Generation, veteran Chicano civil rights scholar Mario T. García provides a rare look inside the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s as they unfolded in Los Angeles.Based on in-depth interviews conducted with three key activists, this book illuminates the lives of Raul Ruiz, Gloria Arellanes, and Rosalio Muñoz—their family histories and widely divergent backgrounds; the events surrounding their growing consciousness as Chicanos; the sexism encountered by Arellanes; and the aftermath of their political histories.
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Documents of the Chicano Movement This book provides original source documents—from firsthand accounts to media responses to legislation—regarding the Chicano movement of the 1960s through 1970s. Readers will understand the key events, individuals, and developments of La Causa: Chicanos uniting to free themselves from exploitation.
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Eat the Mouth That Feeds You Carribean Fragoza's debut collection of stories reside in the domestic surreal, featuring an unusual gathering of Latinx and Chicanx voices from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, and universes beyond.
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Every Day We Get More Illegal In this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, trenchant, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets, the lethal border game that separates and divides, and then: a shift of register, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity.
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Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors From Spain and Latin America: A Critical Anthology The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers'works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers.
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Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force: Mapping a Chicano/a Art History The Royal Chicano Air Force produced major works of visual art, poetry, prose, music, and performance during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first. Materializing in Sacramento, California, in 1969 and established between 1970 and 1972, the RCAF helped redefine the meaning of artistic production and artwork to include community engagement projects such as breakfast programs, community art classes, and political and labor activism. The collective's work has contributed significantly both to Chicano/a civil rights activism and to Chicano/a art history, literature, and culture.
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The House on Mango Street The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting.'Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros's masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time.
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Latino/a Children's and Young Adult Writers on the Art of Storytelling Children's and young adult literature has become an essential medium for identity formation in contemporary Latino/a culture in the United States. This book is an original collection of more than thirty interviews led by Frederick Luis Aldama with Latino/a authors working in the genre. The conversations revolve around the conveyance of young Latino/a experience, and what that means for the authors as they overcome societal obstacles and aesthetic complexity.
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Picturing the Barrio: Ten Chicano Photographers Mexican-American life, like that of nearly every contemporary community, has been extensively photographed. Yet there is surprisingly little scholarship on Chicano photography. Picturing the Barrio presents the first book-length examination on the topic. David William Foster analyzes the imagery of ten distinctive artists who offer a range of approaches to portraying Chicano life. The production of each artist is examined as an ideological interpretation of how Chicano experience is constructed and interpreted through the medium of photography, in sites ranging from the traditional barrio to large metropolitan societies.
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¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest.
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Streaming Media
Streaming media is documentaries and other videos you can watch online. Click on the title to watch any of the below videos!
A Class Apart
"In the 1954 legal case Hernandez v. Texas, defense lawyers forged a daring strategy—one arguing that Mexican-Americans did not fit into a legal structure which recognized only white and black racial categories. This American Experience episode interweaves the story of that landmark case, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, with the broader narrative of the civil rights movement. Viewers will learn about the heroic post-World War II struggle of Mexican-Americans fighting to dismantle Jim Crow-style discrimination targeted against them." (PBS and Films on Demand, 2009).
Extraordinary Hispanic Men Who Shaped American History
"This program celebrates influential Hispanic men in the United States who have made significant contributions to society. It explores the lives and achievements of these inspirational figures, highlighting their impact on education, politics, science, medicine, exploration, music, literature, and sports." (Films on Demand, 2023).
Extraordinary Hispanic Women Who Shaped American History
"This program celebrates notable Hispanic American women whose influence has touched every walk of life. These women show us how powerful they are as individuals and how much they have inspired others with their dedication, unshakable drive and determination." (Films on Demand, 2023).
From Mexico to Vietnam: A Chicano Story
"After losing her father at an early age, Tina Duran explores the rich history of her father, the story of her ancestors who migrated from Mexico to the United States, and the implications the Vietnam War had on the Chicano and Latino community." (Films on Demand, 2022).
The Latino Influence on the United States - Discover Latino History
"This program uncovers the countless ways in which Central and South American civilizations have influenced the U.S. From language to medicine, from food to manufacturing, the program develops a strong understanding of these influential and ancient civilizations. It explores the idea of "Manifest Destiny," discovers Puerto Rico's quest for independence, and finds out how the "Little War" affected Mexico." (Films on Demand, 2023).
Marcos Doesn't Live Here Anymore: A Film by David Sutherland
"A decorated Marine veteran fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband is deported. With Independent Lens and Voces, David Sutherland weaves a parallel love and immigration story set in a world often lived in the shadows." (Films on Demand and PBS, 2019).
Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chican@ Movement
"Illuminating the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico, the film engages student activism, police repression, and issues of identity, land, and community that still resonate in Chican@ struggles today. Through interviews with those who shaped the movement and rare historical footage, the film offers a window into a dynamic moment in history." (Films on Demand, 2021).
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