Xicana Resources

​The Movement

• Akoukou Thompson, N. (2013, November 10). Xicanisma: The Chicana feminist & her movement. Retrieved from http://www.latinpost.com/articles/3650/20131110/xicanisma-chicana-feminist-movement.htm

• Jackson, L., Newman, M., & Price, B. (2007, December 14). Exploring the Chicana feminist movement. Retrieved from http://umich.edu/~ac213/student_projects07/latfem/latfem/latfem/credits.html

• Stella Becerril, C. (2015, June 24). What’s with the “X” in “Xicanisma?” Retrieved from http://www.latinorebels.com/2015/06/24/whats-with-the-x-in-xicanisma/

• Xicanisma/Latina feminism. (2017). Retrieved from http://www.guerrillafeminism.org/guerrilla-feminist-digital-activist-resource-center/xicanisma/

 

History & Scholarship​

• Anzaldúa, G. (2012). Borderlands/La frontera: The new mestiza (4th ed.). San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.

• Blackwell, M. (2015). ¡Chicana power!: Contested histories of feminism in the Chicano movement. Austin: University of Texas Press.

• Castillo, A. (2014). Massacre of the dreamers. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/multco/reader.action?docID=1794563&ppg=5

• Facio, E., & Lara, I. (2014). Fleshing the spirit: Spirituality and activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous women’s lives. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/multco/detail.action?docID=3411878

• Gaspar de Alba, A. (2014). [Un]framing the “bad woman”: Sor Juana, Malinche, Coyolxauhqui, and other rebels with a cause. Austin: University of Texas Press.

• Martinez, E. (2008). 500 years of Chicana women’s history (Bilingual ed.). New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

• Moraga, C. (2011). A Xicana codex of changing consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010. Durham: Duke University Press.

• Moraga, C. & Anzaldúa, G. (Eds.). (2015). This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color (4th ed.). Albany: SUNY Press.

• Ruíz, V. (2008). From out of the shadows: Mexican women in twentieth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2874910068_from_out_of_the_shadows

 

Memoirs

• Serros, M. (1998). Chicana falsa, and other stories of death, identity, and Oxnard (1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.). New York: Riverhead Books.

• Sotomayor, S. (2013). My beloved world. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

 

Poetry

• Cervantes, L. D. (2011). Emplumada. Ann Arbor: Proquest LLC.

• Luz Villanueva, A. (1993). Planet, with mother, may I? Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe.

 

Novels

• Cisneros, S. (2013). Caramelo. New York: Vintage.

• Corpi, L. (2002). Eulogy for a brown angel: A mystery novel. Houston: Arte Publico Press.

• Marie Martínez, N. (2005). ¡Caramba!: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card. New York: Anchor Books.

• María Viramontes, H. (2014). Under the feet of Jesus. New York: Plume.

• Pérez, E. (2009). Gulf dreams (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.

• Quintero, I. (2014). Gabi, a girl in pieces. El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press.

• Rivera, G. (2016). Juliet takes a breath (1st ed.). Riverdale: Riverdale Avenue Books.

• Sánchez, E. L. (2017). I am not your perfect Mexican daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

 

Short Stories

• Cisneros, S. (2013). Woman hollering creek: And other stories. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

• Trujillo, C. (1994). Chicana lesbians: The girls our mothers warned us about. Berkeley: Third Woman Press.

 

Art

• Alvarez, V., & Soto, T. (2009). Teacher’s guide for Yolanda M. López. Retrieved from http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/files/LopezGuide.pdf

• Cervántez, Y. D. (n.d.). Yreina D. Cervántez. Retrieved from http://www.latinoartcommunity.org/community/ChicArt/ArtistDir/YreCer.html

• Gamboa, D. (n.d.). Diane Gamboa. Retrieved from http://latinoartcommunity.org/community/ChicArt/ArtistDir/DiaGam.html

• Gaspar de Alba, A., & López, A. (2012). Our lady of controversy: Alma López’s “Irreverent Apparition” (Chicana Matters). Austin: University of Texas Press.

• Hernández, J. (2017). Judithe Hernández. Retrieved from https://www.judithehernandez.com/

• Lomas Garza, C. (2012). Carmen Lomas Garza. Retrieved from http://carmenlomasgarza.com/

• López, A. (nd). Barbara Carrasco. Retrieved from http://almalopez.com/projects/ChicanasLatinas/carrascobarbara3.html

• López, A. (2017). Alma López. Retrieved from http://www.almalopez.com/

• Patankar, J. (2012). Ester Hernandez. Retrieved from http://www.esterhernandez.com/

• Pérez, L. E. (2007). Chicana art: The politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities. Durham: Duke University Press.

• Social and Public Art Resource Center. (2017). City wide mural program: La ofrenda. Retrieved from http://sparcinla.org/la-ofrenda-yrenia-cerantez-cd-1/

 

Music

• Alsop, J., & Raygoza, I. (2016, March 25). Alice Bag: The Chicana punk who rioted before riot grrrl. Retrieved from http://latinousa.org/2016/03/25/alice-bag/

• DeLaRosa, G. (2011, November 29). Girl in a Coma: “We”re the girls next door, we’re your sisters, we're your tias'. Retrieved from http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/29/girl-in-a-coma-were-the-girls-next-door-were-your-sisters-were-your-tias/​

• Iztaccíhuatl. (2009). Bags: Survive. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivDsKQtou_w

• Garza, E. (n.d.). Eva Garza playlist [Spotify].

• Vargas, D. R. (2012). Dissonant divas in Chicana music: The limit of la onda. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved from https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2919493068_dissonant_divas_in_chicana_music

 

Images

• Amplifier Foundation. (2017). Women’s March on Washington. Retrieved from https://amplifier.org/campaigns/womens-march/

• García, V. L. (2015). For fun. Retrieved from https://www.vlgarcia.com/for-fun

• Hernández, J. (2017). Judithe Hernández. Retrieved from https://www.judithehernandez.com/

• Montes, A. M. L. (2012, June 17). Pa’ Ti Xicana: Mujer de mucha enagua. Retrieved from http://labloga.blogspot.com/2012/06/pa-ti-xicana-mujer-de-mucha-enagua.html

• Sabogal, J. (2017). Jessica Sabogal. Retrieved from http://jessicasabogal.bigcartel.com/products

 

Sources​

• Blackwell, M. (2013). Chicana feminism. Retrieved from https://moodle2.sscnet.ucla.edu/course/view/13S-CHICANOCM110-1

• Chicana feminism. (2017, April 20). Retrieved April 20, 2017 from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicana_feminism 

• Gaspar de Alba, A. (2013). Chicana lesbian literature. Retrieved from https://classes.sscnet.ucla.edu/course/view.php?name=13S-CHICANOCM133-1

• Gompf, A. (2015). 13 Chicano lit must-reads. Retrieved from http://remezcla.com/lists/culture/13-chicano-lit-must-reads-michele-serros/

• Listopia: “Chicana.” (2017). Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_type=lists&q=chicana

• Oliva, A. (2017, December). 2016 in books: 15 must reads from Latin American and US Latino authors. Retrieved from http://remezcla.com/lists/culture/15-best-latino-books-2016/

• Poetry Foundation. (2016). Lorna Dee Cervantes. Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/lorna-dee-cervantes

• Rodriguez, G. (2015, October 13). 7 Chicana feminist authors you should be reading. Retrieved from http://msmagazine.com/blog/2015/10/13/7-chicana-feminist-authors-you-should-be-reading/#card_2520_25556_25554

• Rueda Esquibel, C. (2003). Annotated bibliography of queer Chicana (and a few Latina) fictions. Retrieved from http://online.sfsu.edu/ktrion/Jotas/jotas4.html

• Weiss, J. (2016, June 24). Latina teens have highest rate of suicide attempts in the U.S. Retrieved from http://www.univision.com/univision-news/health/latina-teens-have-highest-rate-of-suicide-attempts-in-the-us