Latino Collection
San Antonio Public Library

Selected Recent Acquisitions
Summer 2000

This is a partial listing of books recently added to the Latino Collection, located on the sixth floor of the Central Library.

Non-Fiction | Fiction | Juvenile

Non-Fiction

A cultural history of Latin America :  literature, music, and the visual arts in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edited by Leslie Bethell. New York: Cambridge University Press,  1998.
LATINO 980.03 CULTURAL

Almaráz, Félix D. Knight without armor: Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, 1896-1958. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999.
LATINO 972.0072 CASTANEDA BIOGRAPHY

Ancient civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya: chronicles from National Geographic. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., senior consulting editor. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999.
LATINO 972 ANCIENT

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Set this book on fire! Mena, AR: Cedar Hill Publications, 1999.
LATINO 811.54 BACA

García, Ignacio M. Viva Kennedy : Mexican Americans in search of Camelot. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
LATINO 324.973 GARCIA

González, Juan. Harvest of empire: a history of Latinos in America. New York :  Viking,  2000.
LATINO 973.0468 GONZALEZ

González, Ray. Turtle pictures. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
LATINO 811.54 GONZALEZ

González Echevarría, Roberto. The pride of Havana: a history of Cuban baseball. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
LATINO 796.35709 GONZALEZ ECHEVARRIA

Gracia, Jorge J. E. Hispanic/Latino identity: a philosophical perspective. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
LATINO 305.868 GRACIA

Herrera, Juan Felipe.  Lotería cards and fortune poems: a book of lives. Linocuts by Artemio Rodriguez. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1999.
LATINO 811.54 HERRERA

Herrera, Juan Felipe. Thunderweavers = Tejedoras de rayos Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
LATINO 811.54 HERRERA

Hinojosa, María. Raising Raul: adventures raising myself and my son. New York: Viking, 1999.
LATINO 306.8743 HINOJOSA BIOGRAPHY

López, Josefina.  Real women have curves: a comedy.  Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Pub., 1996.
LATINO 812.54 LOPEZ

The Maquiladora reader:cross-border organizing since NAFTA. Edited by Rachael Kamel and Anya Hoffman. Philadelphia, PA: American Friends Service Committee,1999.
LATINO 331.88 MAQUILADORA

McQuade, Margaret Connors. Talavera poblana : four centuries of a Mexican ceramic tradition. New York: Americas Society Art Gallery; Hispanic Society of America; Puebla, Mexico: Museo Amparo, 1999.
LATINO 738.0972 MCQUADE

Murrieta Cantú, Heriberto. Silverio Pérez. Mexico DF: Clío, 1999.
LATINO 791.82 PEREZ BIOGRAPHY

Music in Latin American culture: regional traditions. Edited by John M. Schechter. New York: Schirmer Books, 1999.
LATINO 780.98 MUSIC

Noriega, Chon A. Shot in America : television, the state, and the rise of Chicano cinema.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
LATINO 791.43652 NORIEGA

Pedraja, Luis G. Jesus is my uncle: Christology from a Hispanic  perspective. Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1999.
LATINO 232.08968 PEDRAJA

The politics of multiculturalism and bilingual education: students and teachers caught in the cross-fire.  Edited by Carlos J. Ovando and Peter McLaren. Boston:  McGraw-Hill, 2000.
LATINO 370.117 POLITICS

Porter, Eliot. Mexican churches. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1999.
LATINO 704.9482 PORTER

Rodriguez, Art. The monkey box. Coyote, CA : Dream House Press, 2000.
LATINO 979.474 RODRIGUEZ

Rosales, Rodolfo. The illusion of inclusion : the untold political story of San Antonio. Austin:University of Texas Press, 2000.
LATINO 324.08968 ROSALES

Thompson, Jerry D. Vaqueros in blue & gray.  Austin, TX: State House Press, 2000.
LATINO 301.45168 THOMPSON

Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel. Migrant daughter: coming of age as a Mexican American woman. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press,  2000.
LATINO 979.40046 TYWONIAK BIOGRAPHY

Valdivia, Angharad N. A Latina in the land of Hollywood and other essays on media culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
LATINO 305.48868 VALDIVIA

Virgins, guerrillas, and locas: gay Latinos writing on love. Edited by Jaime Cortez. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1999.
LATINO 810.8092 VIRGINS


Fiction

Martin, Patricia Preciado.  Amor eterno: eleven lessons in love. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.
LATINO FICTION MARTIN

Quiñonez, Ernesto. Bodega dreams. New York: Vintage, 2000.
LATINO FICTION QUINONEZ

Taibo, Paco Ignacio. Just passing through. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, 2000.
LATINO FICTION TAIBO


Juvenile

Freschet, Gina. Naty's parade. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.
LATINO JUVENILE EASY FRESCHET

Herrera, Juan Felipe.  Upside down boy = El niño de cabeza. San Francisco, CA: Childrens Book Press, 2000.
LATINO JUVENILE 811.54 HERRERA

Laufer, Peter. Hecho en Mexico.  Washington, DC: National Georgraphic Society, 2000.
LATINO JUVENILE 787.87 LAUFER

Wolf, Bernard. Cuba : after the revolution. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1999.
LATINO JUVENILE 917.21 WOLF


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