Sold into slavery in 1683 Boston and renamed Thankful Seagraves, a Latina woman is brutalized and raped until giving birth to her daughter, who is turned against her by her master's wife, before Thankful is swept up by the hysteria of the Salem witchcraft trials. By the author of Sor Juana's Second Dream. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: This is an incisive mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the US/Mexico border. It'’s the summer of 1998 and for five years, over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped on the Chihuahua desert outside of Juárez, México, just across the river from El Paso, Texas...read more

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Product Description: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, una de las más grandes poetas que ha dado la América colonial, fue una mujer excepcional que supo imponer su voz en un mundo de hombres. En este retrato íntimo Juana Inés aparece como una joven fuerte, beligerante y sensual, obsesiva en sus filias y sus fobias...read more

Product Description: This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of the woman Carlos Fuentes calls "the first great Latin American poet." Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), poet, playwright, rhetorician, and musician, is often equated with Sappho, the lesbian poet whom Plato baptized the "Tenth Muse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the early 1990s, a major exhibition--Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985--toured major museums around the United States. As a first attempt to define and represent Chicano/a art for a national audience, the exhibit attracted both praise and controversy, while raising fundamental questions about the nature of multiculturalism in the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fiction. In THE MYSTERY OF SURVIVAL AND OTHER STORIES, Gaspar de Alba considers the boundaries between sexes, lovers, cultures, generations, and beliefs and presents a body of work that allows her characters to both defy and celebrate these borders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)