Mexican American

In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans. All around town, signs go up proclaiming “No Dogs or Mexicans” and “No Mexicans Allowed.” When Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos in their town of Monteseco, Texas, her whole family becomes a target of “repatriation” efforts to send Mexicans “back to Mexico”—whether they were ever Mexican citizens or not.

It is July 2019, and the summer monsoon is building above New Mexico’s Chaco National Historical Park. Scientist Mark Springer is shot while investigating the effects of a moratorium on oil drilling designed to protect archeological sites near the Park. He is found, injured, by Justin Tso, an ex-policeman searching for a missing grandchild last seen in the area. Against the background of two real world problems in the Region—the disappearance of Native American women and the tension between oil/gas development and the protection of archeological sites sacred to Native American people—...

In the second book of The Lighthouse Trilogy we follow Charity, the third and youngest child of the Henley family. As a teen, in book one, she was sweet and lovable with a bit of a rebellious streak. Now as a grown woman fresh out of college, she must face some troubles from her past as she forges her way in an adult world. Charity has decided that she wants nothing to do with men. According to her they only cause trouble and interfere with a girl's life. But unfortunately she runs into Tucker, an old flame from high school who is quite persistent. Just as she is trying to figure out her ...

After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge’s all-White, one-percenter motorcycle club, the Lawless, and from her uncle himself. Being raised by a drug addict is no picnic, and Raqi must quickly learn how to survive. She manages to form a few friendships. Still, as soon as she can, she leaves the violence and bigotry behind and doesn’t look back.

In the court of the “King”, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power.

Previous published as Tejano Music Queen Lydia Mendoza 7.13.2020 copyright Ellie Crowe. Hold on to your dream, Lydia told herself. She dreamed of becoming a music star--- a Tejano music queen. But how could she? She was a young Mexican girl living in poverty on the borderlands between Mexico and Texas. Her papa said women could never become Tejano music stars. He said it just wouldn't be right. But Lydia was determined to prove him wrong. Lydia Mendoza fought poverty and discrimination against race and women to become a Latin American music sensation, the Lark of the Border, a Tejano Music ...

Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherrie Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherrie and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own coming to consciousness alongside the heartbreaking story of her mother's decline.

Death waits for Estrella (Noche) Villanueva. In her human form, she is a lonely science girl grieving the tragic accidental drowning of her girlfriend, Dante Fuentes. At night, she is a Lechuza who visits her dead girlfriend at the lake, desperate for more time with her. The longer Dante’s soul roams the earth, the more likely it is that she will fade into the unknown, lost forever, but Noche cannot let go . . . That’s when a new kid comes to town, Jax, another science nerd like Noche. They connect in a way she can’t ignore, seemingly pulled together by an invisible thread.

Cuando Matheo Govami decidió separarse de sus amigos, lo hizo creyendo que sólo así sanaría la herida de su corazón. Más de veinte años después, el dolor aún continúa, y ahora sus problemas son mucho mayores. Sobre él pesa una acusación muy grave que debe esclarecer antes de que las autoridades lo condenen. Pero eso no es lo peor: los Místicos están decididos a vengarse de la especie humana por la traición cometida contra su raza.

Mitología mexicana para niños es una colección de historias que nos cuenta cómo entendían el universo los antiguos habitantes de nuestro territorio. En esta obra encontrarás los leyendas de la creación del mundo, los cinco soles, cómo se crearon los diferentes dioses y sus historias, el significado de algunos símbolos y la organización de sus sociedades con base en calendarios muy precisos, que respetaban las fases lunares y las estaciones del año.

At the age of 5, he arrived at a Greyhound bus station in California, transplanted from Mexico City into the pervasive sounds of English. Now with the ink still fresh on his Juris Doctor diploma, he looks back on the journey with the rigorous training he acquired in law school as he compellingly weaves together a vivid interpretation of the raw experiences that drove him along that journey—across his childhood experiences with violence and exclusion for being Spanish-speaking, his struggles to succeed in school despite the limits of poverty.

On the Border of a Dream is an eye-opening and uplifting memoir that tells the true story of a boy from rural Mexico who, at a young age, sets his mind to becoming a pioneering surgeon in the USA. The memoir follows Edgar Hernandez, first with his tight-knit family as an adolescent in Mexico and then as he journeys to the USA to pursue his dream.

The essays gathered in The Early Imperial Republic move beyond the question of whether the new republic was an empire, investigating instead where, how, and why it was one. They use the category of empire to situate the early United States in the global context its contemporaries understood, drawing important connections between territorial conquests on the continent and American incursions.

Dreamers and their allies, those who care about immigration justice, and anyone interested in the experience of Mexicans in the US will respond to these stories of Mexican immigrants (some documented, some not) illuminating their complex lives. Regardless of status, many are subjected to rights violations, inequality, and violence - all of which existed well before the Trump administration - and have profound feelings of being unwanted in the country they call home.

The conflict lasted less than two years, but the repercussions shook both nations for much longer. Having already lost Texas, the still newly independent Mexico was unprepared to defend their northern territories. The US plowed forward through to California with a sense of manifest destiny. While the US fought to gain more land, however, the war splintered the North and South; many Americans saw the war as an unjust theft of Mexican land and knew that the South’s reliance on slave labor would further establish this divisive injustice in America.

Ramona’s boyfriend and best friend are wolves, which never bothered her… until she learned she’s a werewolf hunter. Hold on, back up. Ramona knew the supernatural existed. In her line of work as a veterinarian assistant, she’s seen some strange stuff. Oh, and her boyfriend and best friend? They’re both werewolves. And her boss’s son? He gives her the creeps. Her whole life turns upside down when her family tells her she’s one of them, but not the way you’re thinking… She’s a werewolf hunter. What’s a girl to do? Well, Ramona ran. Ran to her friends to tell them the ...

When Pablo’s backyard orange tree mutates into a durian tree, the virus infects every other plant in San Diego, locking people in their homes and ending normal life. Between Pablo’s bullying “friends,” his divorced mom who starts acting like an animal, and his annoying younger brother Camilo, Pablo has much to handle amidst this new epidemic. Faced with a city falling apart, he and Camilo must confront the mayor with the secret they discovered that could hopefully reverse the virus.

Zachary Taylor or “Old Rough and Ready” as his men called him, came up through the ranks in the U.S. army with the culmination of his career occurring at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War. His military exploits brought him national notoriety and propelled him to the office of the president in the election of 1848. A bit of an enigma, he was a southern slaveholder who vehemently opposed the expansion of slavery into the new western territories that had been won in the war with Mexico. The political arena was a new domain for Taylor, having never held a political ...

Katia, la primera en su tradicional familia mexicoestadounidense en terminar la secundaria, entra a la edad adulta en una época de cambios turbulentos. En todo el país, los jóvenes luchan por los derechos civiles y de las mujeres, y protestan contra la Guerra de Vietnam y las brutales dictaduras de América del Sur. Como muchos de su generación, Katia quiere hacer del mundo un lugar mejor y está decidida a seguir su propio camino.

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