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1 online resource (xxx, 258 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Alma Ester Cortés -- Learning to read / Argelia Flores -- Learned to read at my momma's knee / Carlos Cumpián -- La mees chancla / Carmen Tafolla -- On reading: books in my life / Eliud Martínez -- Holy scripture / Ever Rodríguez -- Storm's impact one for the books / Veronica Flores-Paniagua -- Gift of poetry, gift of reading / Irma Flores-Manges -- The bookcase / Lucía de Anda Vázquez -- Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Anthony Macías -- Un juego de libros añejos / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- A set of old books / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- Sea fever / Maria Kelson -- Reading Thomas Hardy / María Teresa Márquez -- They say that mejicanos don't read / Minerva Daniel -- In the stacks / Monica Hanna -- Los libros de mi padre / Shanti A. Sánchez -- My father's books / Shanti A. Sánchez -- Reading saved me from the chaos / Shonnon Gutiérrez -- The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Veronica Ortega -- Nena / Vito de la Cruz -- Revisiting Nancy Drew / Beth Hernandez-Jason -- Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction -- Fernando Vázquez / Cuauhtémoc B. Díaz -- Lupe Rodríguez / Helen Fabela Chávez -- Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction -- El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Carlos Morton -- Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / A. Gabriel Meléndez -- The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez -- Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Eleanor B. Adams -- Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes. |
| Summary |
In this collection, Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez gathers diverse and passionate accounts of reading drawn from several research projects aimed at documenting Chicana and Chicano reading practices and experiences. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mexican American authors -- Books and reading.
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Mexican American authors. |
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Books and reading. |
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American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Mexican American authors. |
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Mexican Americans -- Books and reading.
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Mexican Americans -- Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- United States.
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United States. |
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Book collecting -- United States.
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Book collecting. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: With a book in their hands. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014 9780826354761 (DLC) 2013048361 (OCoLC)864501696 |
| ISBN |
9780826354778 (electronic book) |
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0826354777 (electronic book) |
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9780826354761 |
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0826354769 |
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