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1	Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders more books like this by Alicia Gaspar de Alba add to wishlist 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 Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants of both sides of the border. El ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Calligraphy of the Witch more books like this by Alicia Gaspar De Alba add to wishlist In Mexico, in the year 1683, Concepcion Benavidez is captured by pirates. Sold into slavery in Boston, half starved, and terrified by her ordeal, during which the Captain raped her repeatedly, she gives birth to a daughter. Over the next eight years, Concepcion renamed Thankful Seagraves - adapts to her new life with great difficulty as she raises ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories more books like this by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Alicia Gaspar De Alba add to wishlist 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. This collection is peopled by those tenaciously exploring their places in the world: an ambitious young ... see all copies from $3.22! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| SVS
4	Sor Juana's Second Dream more books like this by Alicia Gaspar De Alba add to wishlist Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz (1648-1695) was a self-taught scholar, poet, and author from San Miguel de Nepantla, Mexico. Often referred to as the first feminist of the Americas, Sor Juana held discussions about natural science with intellectuals in her private suite in the Convent of San Jeronimo and spent much of her time writing on topics dealing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders more books like this by Alicia Gaspar De Alba add to wishlist Its the summer of 1998 and for 5 years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chicuahua desert outside of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $12.18! \| SVS
6	Chicano Art Inside/Outside the Master's House: Cultural Politics and the Cara Exhibition more books like this by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Alicia Gaspar De Alba add to wishlist In the early 1990s a major exhibition--"Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985"--toured major museums across the United States. The exhibit attracted both praise and controversy. This book presents the first interdisciplinary cultural study of the CARA exhibit. Alicia Gaspar de Alba shows how the exhibit reflected, and serves as a ... see all copies from $22.42! new only from $22.80! \| first editions \| SVS
7	La Llorona on the Longfellow Bridge: Poetry y Otras Movidas 1985-2001 more books like this by Alicia Gaspar de Alba add to wishlist As a leading interpreter of border life and culture, poet, storyteller, and essayist Gaspar de Alba explores the borders and limits of place, body, and language through a painful series of moves and losses. see all copies from $3.26! new only from $29.75! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/O Sexualities more books like this by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Tomas Ybarra Frausto, Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Editor) add to wishlist These eighteen interdisciplinary essays examine the multiplicity of ways in which the ideologies of sex and gender are produced and consumed, approved and accepted, resisted and reinvented in Chicana/o popular culture. see all copies from $19.49! new only from $21.50! \| SVS
9	Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/O Sexualities more books like this by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Editor), Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Editor), Tomas Y Frausto (Foreword by) add to wishlist These eighteen interdisciplinary essays examine the multiplicity of ways in which the ideologies of sex and gender are produced and consumed, approved and accepted, resisted and reinvented in Chicana/o popular culture. see all copies from $43.26! new only from $43.26!
10	El Segundo Sueno by Alicia Gaspar De Alba add to wishlist see all copies from $22.99!
11 view cover	Sangre en el Desierto: Las Muertas de Juarez more books like this by Alicia Gaspar De Alba, Rosario Sanmiguel (Translator) add to wishlist It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El ... see all copies from $12.78! new only from $12.78! \| SVS
12 view cover	Curriculum in the Postmodern Condition more books like this by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Edgar Gonzalez-Gaudiano add to wishlist see all copies from $29.65! new only from $29.65!
13 view cover	Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Demetria Martinez, Maria Herrera-Sobek add to wishlist This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $15.95! \| first editions

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