Recent Acquisitions in the

Cesar E. Chavez Collection

Summer 2001

 

 

Subjects in this issue:

 

Art                                                                   Literature

Biography                                                      Literature-History and Criticism

Culture and Identity                          Poetry

Education                                                      Religion

Fiction                                                            Social Conditions

Gangs                                                            Student Activism

Gay/Lesbian                                      Treaties

Labor                                                              Vieques

Language                                          War (Korea; Vietnam)

                   Women

 

 

Please remember to consult MAGIC for the call numbers to each title.

 

 

Art

Dash, Robert C. Mesoamerican and Chicano art, culture and identity = El arte, la cultura, y la identidad mesoamericana y chicana. Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts. Supplemental series, 6. Salem, Or. Willamette University, 1994.

 

Eckmann, Teresa. Chicano artists and neo-Mexicanists: (de) constructions of national identity. Research paper series / University of New Mexico, Latin American Institute; no. 36. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Latin American Institute, 2000.

 Our Lady of Guadalupe  in Art. Attitudes of artists in the United States and Mexico.

 

Biography

Estrada, Santiago C. A cry of hope: spiritual reality therapy. Laguna Beach, CA: Salsa Books.

Biography of psychologist Santiago C. Estrada, an alcoholism counselor in

Orange County California.

 

Kreneck, Thomas H. Mexican American odyssey: Felix Tijerina, entrepreneur & civic leader, 1905-1965. University of Houston series in Mexican American studies; no. 2. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.

Biography of Felix Tijerina (1905-1965) a LULAC official in Houston.

Mexican Americans Texas Houston Biography.

 

Littwin, Mike. Fernando! : (In English and Spanish). New York: Bantam, 1981.

Valenzuela, Fernando,

Mexican baseball player Fernando Valenzuela, former pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers.

 

Matthiessen, Peter. Sal si puedes; Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution. New York, Random House, 1969. (Rev. Ed.)

Biography of labor union president Cesar Chavez.

 

McGregor, Ann, Cindy Wathen, and George Elfie Ballis. Remembering Cesar: the legacy of Cesar Chavez. Clovis, CA: Quill Driver Books, 2000.

Pictorial work on Chavez and the UFW history of strikes and lockouts.

 

Ortiz Cofer, Judith, and Elena Olazagasti-Segovia. Bailando en silencio: escenas de una niñez puertorriqueña. Houston, Tex.: Piñata Books, 1997.

A collection of writings by the poet, novelist, and essayist recalling her childhood spent shuttling between the land of her birth and the family's home in New Jersey.

 

Culture & Identity

Contreras, Sheila Marie. “Blood lines: modernism, indigenismo and the construction of Chicana/o identity." 1998. 

Ph.D. dissertation. Also available as digital version at http://www.lib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main

 

Dash, Robert C. Mesoamerican and Chicano art, culture and identity = El arte, la cultura, y la identidad mesoamericana y chicana. Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts. Supplemental series, 6. Salem, OR: Willamette University, 1994.

 

López, Antoinette Sedillo. Historical themes and identity: mestizaje and labels. Latinos in the United States; v. 1. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.

 

Ramírez, Axel, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Chicanos, el orgullo de ser: memoria del encuentro Chicano México 1990. 1. Ed. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1992.

 

Education

Maldonado, Carlos S. Colegio Cesar Chavez, 1973-1983: a Chicano struggle for educational self-determination. Latino communities. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

History of the Colegio Cesar Chavez in Mount Angel, Oregon.

 

Reyes, Jorge D. “Acculturation and academic achievement among Mexican American students.”  1990.

Masters Thesis (MS), California State University, Long Beach,

 

San Miguel, Guadalupe. Brown, not white school integration and the Chicano movement in Houston. University of Houston series in Mexican American studies; no. 3. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.

Mexican Americans Texas Houston Social conditions 20th century.

School integration and discrimination in education in Houston, Texas.

 

Fiction

Duarte, Stella Pope. Fragile night. Tempe, Ariz.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1997.

Fifteen stories on the joys and sorrows of being a Hispanic woman. The stories make the point that unlike the Anglo woman, a Hispanic woman is expected to put up with male infidelity and violence as part of her femininity.

 

González, José Luis. Ballad of another time. Tulsa, OK,

Austin, Tex.: Council Oak Books/Hecate with the University of Tulsa;

Distributed by Texas Monthly Press, 1987.

 

Lopez, Erika. They call me Mad Dog! : a story for bitter, lonely people. New York: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1998.

Adventure story of bisexual, motorcycling women prisoners. (…And who says we can't do two things at once!!)

 

López, Jack. Snapping lines: stories. Camino del sol. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

Hispanic American men Fiction.

 

Rodríguez Solís, Eduardo. Cógele bien el compás. Textos de difusión cultural. Serie Rayuela. 1. Ed. México: Coordinación de Difusión Cultural Dirección de Literatura/UNAM, 1991.

Novel in Spanish.

 

 

Taylor, Sheila Ortiz. Slow dancing at Miss Polly's. 1st ed. Tallahassee, Fla.: Naiad Press, 1989.

Lesbians Fiction.

 

Wishnia, K. J. A. The glass factory: a Filomena Buscarsela mystery. New York: Dutton, 2000.

Policewoman, Filomena Buscarsela in another detective mystery about corrupt practices and hazardous waste in a glass factory in New York State. (Another title in this series that is on order is "Soft Money")

 

Gangs

Hunt, Matthew Busby. “The sociolinguistics of tagging and Chicano gang graffiti.” 1996.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Southern California,

 

Mendoza-Denton, Norma Catalina. “Chicana/Mexicana identity and linguistic variation: an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of gang affiliation in an urban high school.” , 1997.

Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University,

 

Gay/Lesbian

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda. “Chicana lesbian fictions: ambivalence, erotics, and authenticity." 1999.

Masters Thesis, University of California-Santa Cruz; Mexican American women in literature; lesbian fiction.

 

Garcia, Bernardo. The development of a Latino gay identity. Latino communities. New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.

On Latino gay psychology; Ethnic identity.

 

Gil-Gomez, Ellen M. Performing la mestiza: textual representations of lesbians of color and the negotiation of identities. Literary criticism and cultural theory. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Lesbians' writings; Feminism and literature Identity (Psychology) in literature. Lesbians in literature. Race in literature.

 

Lopez, Erika. They call me Mad Dog! : A story for bitter, lonely people. New York: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1998.

Adventure story of bisexual, motorcycling women prisoners

 

Taylor, Sheila Ortiz. Slow dancing at Miss Polly's. 1st ed. Tallahassee, Fla.: Naiad Press, 1989.

 

Labor

Madrazo, Carlos. El destino manifiesto: visión del proceso chicano. 1a ed. [México, D.F.: Editorial Linatti, 1982.

Alien labor (Mexicans in the United States).

 

Matthiessen, Peter. Sal si puedes; Cesar Chavez and the new American Revolution. New York, Random House, 1969.

Biography of labor union president Cesar Chavez.

 

McGregor, Ann, Cindy Wathen, and George Elfie Ballis. Remembering Cesar: the legacy of Cesar Chavez. Clovis, Calif.: Quill Driver Books, 2000.

 

Pictorial work on Chavez and UFW history of strikes and lockouts.

 

Language

Mendoza-Denton, Norma Catalina. “Chicana/Mexicana identity and linguistic variation: an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of gang affiliation in an urban high school." 1997.

Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University.

 

Literature

Rodriguez, Ralph Edward. “Chicana and Chicano fiction into the nineties: genre and contestation." 1997.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin.

 

Silén, Iván. El llanto de las ninfómanas = The wail of the nymphomaniacs. [Puerto Rico]: Editorial El Libro Viaje, 1982.

Novel.

 

Literature - History and Criticism

Barrera, José Joaquín. “From Cabeza de Vaca to Oscar Zeta Acosta: Chicano literature as mission in the American wilderness.” , 1996.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas-Austin.

 

Brady, Mary Patricia. “Extinct lands, scarred bodies: Chicana literature and the reinvention of space.” 1996.

Ph.D. Thesis, UCLA,  Mexican American [women] authors History and criticism.

 

Contreras, Sheila Marie. “Blood lines: modernism, indigenismo and the construction of Chicana/o identity.” 1998.

Ph.D. dissertation. Also available as digital version at http://www.lib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main

 

Kafka, Phillipa. (Out)classed women: contemporary Chicana writers on inequitable gendered power relations. Contributions in women's studies, no. 184. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Mexican American [women] authors-- History and criticism.

 

Somoza, Oscar U. Narrativa chicana contemporánea: principios fundamentales. Colección Clepsidra Americana; 3. Estudio Crítico. México, D.F.: Signos, 1983.

Mexican American literature (Spanish) History and criticism.

 

Literature- Non-fiction

Martínez C, Hector. Yo chicano. México: B. Costa-Amic, 1976.

Mexicans United States.

A look at Chicanos and Mexicans in the US from 1819 through the mid- 1970's through the eyes of a Mexican journalist.  In Spanish.

 

 

 

 

 

Alfau, Felipe. Locos: a comedy of gestures. 1st paperback ed. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1997.

 

 

 

 

Poetry

Acosta, Teresa Palomo. Passing time: poems. [Austin, TX?:s.n.], 1984.

 

Guerrero, Miguel. Reflections of a little brown boy. Stockton, CA [Miguel Guerrero], 1977.

Author's first book of poems and short stories through the eyes of a young boy.

 

Hatch, Sheila Sanchez. Strong box heart. San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2000.

 

Herrera, Juan Felipe. Giraffe on fire. Camino del Sol. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

 

Hernandez, David. Rooftop piper. Chicago, IL

Oak Park, IL: Tia Chucha Press; distributed by International Literary Publishers, 1991.

Poetry and short stories by this Chicago author.

 

Melendez, Jesus Papoleto. Have you seen liberation. [New York]: Jesus Papoleto Melendez, 1971.

 

Morro, Henry J. Corpses of angels: poems. Los Angeles: Bombshelter Press, 2000.

 

Pérez, A. M. Halcyon poems. 1st ed. Middleton, WI: Red Oak Publishers, 1985.

 

Ruiz, Reynaldo. Hispanic poetry in Los Angeles, 1850-1900 = La poesía angelina. Hispanic literature; v. 56. Lewiston, New York: E. Mellen Press, 2000.

 

Tafolla, Carmen. Sonnets and salsa. San Antonio, Tejas: Wings Press, 2001.

 

Villanueva, Tino. Primera causa = First cause. Cross-cultural review chapbook, 14. Latin American (Chicano) poetry; 2. 1st ed. Merrick, NY: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1999.

Bilingual.

 

Webb, J. F., and Border Voices Poetry Project. Border voices 4: an anthology by major poets and San Diego students. San Diego, Calif.: San Diego Writers' Monthly, 1997.

San Diego (CA) Poets and poetry.

 

Religion

Dónde estaba Dios en Vietnam: sobrevivientes contestan. Guaynabo, P.R.: Vázquez-Bruno Pub. 1994.

Personal narratives of Puerto Rican soldiers in Vietnam

 

Elizondo, Virgilio P. Guadalupe, mother of the new creation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997.

Our Lady of Guadalupe; Mestizaje-- Religious aspects of Christianity.

 

Quiñones López, César R., Beatriz de Oliveras, and Ernesto Quidgley. Dónde estaba Dios en Vietnam: sobrevivientes contestan. Guaynabo, P.R.: Vázquez-Bruno Pub. 1994.

Personal narratives of Puerto Rican soldiers in Vietnam; Religious aspects.

 

León, Luis D. “Religious movement in the United States - Mexico borderlands: toward a theory of Chicana/o religious poetics." 1997.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara.

 

Steele, Thomas J. New Mexican Spanish religious oratory, 1800-1900. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Preaching( Oratoria sagrada) in 19th century  New Mexico Sermons,

 

Social Conditions

Betancur, John Jairo, and Doug Gills. The collaborative city: opportunities and struggles for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. cities. Garland reference library of social science; v. 1461. Contemporary urban affairs; v. 8. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

On social conditions; coalitions, ethnic relations and community development.

 

Student Activism

Valle, Maria Eva. “MEChA and the transformation of Chicano student activism: generational change, conflict, and continuity." 1996.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego, surveys former members and officers of MEChA  (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

 

Treaties

Mexico and United States. El Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848. [Sacramento]: Telefact Foundation in cooperation with California State Dept. of Education, 1968.

Facsimile of the Mexico-- United States treaty signed February 2, 1848.

 

Vieques

Mullenneaux, Lisa. Ni una bomba más: Vieques vs. US Navy. New York: Penington Press, 2000.

United States. Navy Target practice on the Navy-yards and naval stations in Puerto Rico.

 

War

Korea (1950-1953)

Santiago Ortíz, Nicolás. Korea 1951, la guerra olvidada: el orgullo de haber sobrevivido. [Puerto Rico: s.n.], 1987.

Personal narrative of a Puerto Rican soldier during the Korean War,

 

 

Vietnam (1961-1975)

Fernández Gordián, Osvaldo. La guerra de Vietnam: tragedia puertorriqueña. San Juan de Puerto Rico: [s.n.], 1994.

Recounting of Puerto Rican participation in Vietnam.

 

Quiñones López, César R., Beatriz de Oliveras, and Ernesto Quidgley. Dónde estaba Dios en Vietnam: sobrevivientes contestan. Guaynabo, P.R.: Vázquez-Bruno Pub. 1994.

Personal narratives of Puerto Rican soldiers in Vietnam

Religious aspects.

 

Women

Blake, Debra J. “The right to passion: Chicana sexuality refigured.” 1997.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Iowa. Mexican American women sexual behavior.

 

Gil-Gomez, Ellen M. Performing la mestiza: textual representations of lesbians of color and the negotiation of identities. Literary criticism and cultural theory. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Lesbians' writings, American History and criticism.

 

Kafka, Phillipa. (Out)classed women : contemporary Chicana writers on inequitable gendered power relations. Contributions in women's studies, no. 184. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

 

Torres, Eden Elma. "Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos" = Their faces we see, their hearts we don't know: Chicana writers in context.” 1998.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota on Mexican American women authors.

 

Women Literary collections-- United States.

Benavides, Rosamel S. Antología de cuentistas chicanas: Estados Unidos de los '60 a los '90. Serie narrativa (Editorial Cuarto Propio). 1. Ed. Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 1993.

Short stories by Mexican American women  (in Spanish)

 

Women in Literature

Denis, Roberta. “Feminist themes in contemporary Chicano fiction." 1997.

Ph.D. dissertation from Cal. State. U -Dominguez Hills

Chicano fiction; Mexican American women in literature; feminism in literature.

 

Rodriguez, Ralph Edward. “Chicana and Chicano fiction into the nineties: genre and contestation.”1997.

Ph.D. Thesis, University of Texas at Austin,