Readings

 Muñoz, Susana and Lourdes Portillo. Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo/The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Film. 1985.

SES # READINGS/FILMS
Introduction
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Amazon logo Moraga, Cherrie and Gloria Anzaldua. This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Berkeley, CA: Third Woman Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780943219226.

Amazon logo Zamora, Daisy. Clean Slate: New & Selected Poems. Willmantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1995. ISBN: 9781880684092

2 Amazon logo Cisneros, Sandra. My Wicked Wicked Ways. New York: Knopf, 1992. ISBN: 9780679418214.
Coming-of-age narratives: Semi-autobiographical fiction
3 Amazon logo Santiago, Esmerelda. When I Was Puerto Rican. New York, NY: Da Capo Books, 2006. ISBN: 9780306814525.
4 When I Was Puerto Rican, (cont.)
First generation conflicts
5 Cardoso, Patricia. Real Women Have Curves. DVD. HBO Home Video, 2002.
The abuela figure in Chicana experience
6 Amazon logo Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003, chapters 1-32 and chronology. ISBN: 9780679742586.
7 Caramelo, chapters 33-60
Border crossings
8 Caramelo, chapters 33-end.
9 Glatzer, Richard and Wash Westmoreland. QuinceañeraDVD. Sony Pictures Classic, 2006.
Roots and revolution
10 Amazon logo García, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780345381439.
11 Dreaming in Cuban, (cont.)
Political voices
12 Amazon logo Agosin, Marjorie. Women of Smoke: Latin American Women in Literature and Life. Tucson, AZ: Imago Press, 1989. ISBN:9780887950742.
13 Puenzo, Luis. The Official Story. DVD. Historias Cinematograficas Cinemania, 1985.
Kinship and loss
14 Amazon logo Allende, Isabel. Paula. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2008. ISBN: 9780061564901.
15 Paula, (cont.)
Childhood and up-rootedness
16 Amazon logo Castedo, Elana. Paradise. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780802134271.
17 Paradise, (cont.)
Family sagas
18 Amazon logo Esqival, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate. New York, NY: Anchor, 1005. ISBN: 9780385420174.
19 Arau, Alfonoso. Like Water for Chocolate. DVD. Arau Films International, 1993.
Biography-writing Latina's lives
20 Taymor, Julie. Frida. DVD. Miramax Films, 2002.
Contemporary Latina writers
21 Amazon logo Rosario, Nelly. Song of the Water Saints. Vintage Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780375725494.
22 Song of the Water Saints, (cont.)
Other perspectives
23 Fukunaga, Cary. Sin NombreDVD. Focus Features, 2009.
24 Kusama, Karyn. GirlfightDVD. Independent Film Channel (IFC), 2000.
The diverse Latina experience
25 and 26 Final project presentations