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Celebrate Hispanic American Heritage Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Hispanic Americans.
All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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160 Anos de Fotografia en Mexico
(Conaculta/Cenart, c2004)
Shelf Number: 779/C569c/SPANISH
More than one hundred years of photography in Mexico. Presents a selection of anonymous early Mexican photographs plus single pictures by nearly five hundred known photographers, and offers background information on photography in Mexico and capsule biographies of the photographers.
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90 Miles: Selected and New Poems
Suarez, Virgil( Univ. of Pittsburgh Press ,c2005)
Shelf Number: 811/SU9399n
It is ninety miles from Cuba to Key West , a distance many have died trying to cross. This poetry collection contains both new and selected works. These narratives of family and history contain pain, humor and exciting twists of language. Suarez is an important contemporary Latino poet.
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood
Arana, Maria (Dial Press, c2001)
Shelf Number: 070.92/AR6621/Biography
A journalist describes her efforts to come to terms with her dual heritage as a Hispanic American and offers a portrait of her family members.
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Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life
Garrison, Philip (Univ. of Arizona Press, c2006)
Shelf Number: 305.86872/G2426b
Garrison has taught in Mexico 's central highlands and Washington 's central valleys, and for the past decade he has helped run a food bank serving Mexican immigrants in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains . Garrison relates horrific tales of border crossings gone badly, homesickness for their homeland, and "el pinche mexicano," a state of mind that means one is simultaneously cursed and blessed. With trips home all but impossible due to border tightening after 9/11, this is really the only community these workers can count on.
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Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life
Richardson, Bill(G.P. Putnam's Sons,c2005)
Shelf Number: 978.9/R521b/Biography
Richardson is the governor of New Mexico , and the son of an American father and a Mexican mother. He discusses this background as well as his years of public service including hostage negotiations with Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro.
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Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana
Martinez, Demetria( Univ. of Oklahoma Press ,c2005)
Shelf Number: 818/M3854Zc
Chicana activist Martinez lives in Albuquerque. These essays, a mix of activism, religion, history and humor, were originally published in newspaper columns.
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