This page is specifically designed to serve as a initial research resource for students who may not have access to an extensive Chicana/o library collection. The beauty of the Web is that you can at least see what types of resources are available--hopefully you can request them through Interlibrary Loan or better, suggest that your school's library join the 90s and add these works to their collections. INDEX To better support independent bookstores, chicanas.com has chosen to partner with Powells new and used bookstore in portland, oregon. Please also browse our local guide to Chicana/o and Latina/o bookstores. |
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 Introductory
works on Chicanas in the United States:
Gabriela Arredondo et al., Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Amazing contemporary collection of the latest research in Chicana feminisms, including Maylei Blackwell's study of Chicanas in the Chicano movement and Ana NietoGomez's response; Norma Cantu on Canicula; Olga Najera-Ramirez on rancheras; and Patricia Zavella on Chicana sexuality. Aida Hurtado, Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity (New York: NYU Press, 2003). Focusing on young women between the ages of 20 and 30, Hurtado uses ethnographic interviews to explore the relationship between Chicana feminism and the lived experiences of Chicanas. Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature (Berkeley: UC Press, 2000). An amazing new work in which a Chicana academic draws on her personal experiences to connect the specifics of a Chicana identity with global identities of women of color and Third World Women. She does a beautiful job of linking these embedded, interwoven connections. Adela de la Torre and Beatriz M. Pesquera, eds. Building With Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies. Berkeley: UC Press, 1993. Excellent interdisciplinary edited collection includes articles on Chicana history, identity, economics, sociology, and education by Antonia Castaneda, Angie Chabram Dernersesian, Emma Perez, Deena Gonzalez, Angelina Veyna, Vicki Ruiz, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Maria de los Angeles Crummett, Denise Segura, and Elisa Facio. Norma Alarcon, ed. Chicana Critical Issues. Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1993. This edited collection is a project of MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social) and contains sixteen articles on Chicana literature, sexuality, history, organizing, health, and domestic violence. The last chapter is a helpful bibliography by Lillian Castillo-Speed of other materials in Chicana Studies, 1980-1991. Gloria Anzaldua, ed. Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color. This anthology builds on the work begun by Gloria's earlier work with Cherrie Moraga on This Bridge Called My Back in bringing together a diversity of poetry and prose by Chicanas and other women of color. The book includes some fifty works of poetry, short stories, and critical essays as well as an excellent introduction in which Gloria calls for "...teorias that will rewrite history using race, class, gender and ethnicity as categories of analysis, theories that cross borders, that blur boundaries--new kinds of theories with new theorizing methods." Tey Diana Rebolledo & Eliana S. Rivero, eds. Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993. This is the mother of all anthologies on Chicana literature, with a comprehensive survey of poetry and prose over 200 years of Chicana history, and an informative introduction. Over fifty-six different authors with some previously unpublished works. Rosalinda Fregoso. The Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano film culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. Here's Rosalinda's excellent review of Alison Anders' film, La Vida Loca, posted via UC Berkeley.* Alma Garcia, ed., Chicana Feminist Thought: Basic Historical Writings. New York: Routledge, 1997. An edited collection of pivotal texts documenting the historical development of a Chicana feminist consciousness by chingonas such as Mirta Vidal, Elizabeth Martinez, Enriqueta Longeaux Vasquez, Marta Cotera, Anna Nieto Gomez, and Adelaida Del Castillo. Alvina Quintana. Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995* Tey Diana Rebolledo, Women Singing in the Snow: a Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature. Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1995* Mary Romero, ed. Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. An exciting new collection of essays on the construction of identity, the immigration experience, gender and work, and economic restructuring among Latinos in the U.S.* Vicki Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America, Oxford Press. A twentieth century history of Mexicanas and Chicanas in the U.S. by la estimada Chicana historian Vicki Ruiz. "Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, a mining town, or an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built extended networks...., and participated in community associations--efforts which solidified the community and helped Mexican Americans find their own place in America." Sonia Saldivar Hull, "Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics." In Criticism in the Borderlands, ed. by Hector Calderon and Jose David Saldivar, Durham: Duke University Press, 1991. Excellent introductory discussion of Chicana feminist theory* Carla Trujillo, Living
Chicana Theory, Third Woman Press. Carla's exciting
new collection of essays "redefines the ways that theory is written,
talked about, and practiced." With selections by Anzaldua, Yarbro-Bejarano,
Sandoval, Alarcon, Castaneda, Moraga--todas las chingonas de chicana
studies hoy--Carla has outdone herself pulling together this impressive
resource.
Librarians are wonderful wonderful resource people! Your local college or community librarian is trained to know any and every possible resource for your topic, so I want to encourage you to be persistent in seeking their help. The links below show some of the reference works available in some of the better Chicana/o Studies Collections in California--you might want to print out one of these lists and take it to your librarian to see what's available locally...or what you can request.
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