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Black dove : mamá, mi'jo, and me
- Title
- Black dove : mamá, mi'jo, and me / Ana Castillo.
- Author
- Castillo, Ana
- Publication
- New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- 282 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Castillo writes about intergenerational stories from Mexico City to Chicago, and she narrates some of America's social injustices through the lens of motherhood"--
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subjects
- Mothers and daughters
- Mexican American women authors
- Castillo, Ana
- Mexican American families
- Autobiographies
- 1900 - 1999
- Biography
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Single Parent
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
- Castillo, Ana > Family
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood
- Families
- Mexican Americans > Social conditions > 20th century
- Mexican American families > Biography
- Mothers and daughters > United States > Biography
- Mexican American women authors > 20th century > Biography
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280).
- Contents
- Introduction -- My mother's Mexico -- Remembering las cartoneras -- Her last tortillas -- Peel me a girl -- Bowing out -- On mothers, lovers, and other rivals -- When I died in Oaxaca -- Are hunters born or made? -- Swimming with sharks -- What's in a nombre -- Mi'jo's Canon in D Major -- Love, your son, Marcello -- And the woman fled into the desert -- Searching the other side -- Black dove -- Coda.
- Call Number
- JFD 16-3663
- ISBN
- 9781558619234
- 1558619232
- LCCN
- 2015048671
- OCLC
- 923552884
- Author
- Castillo, Ana, author.
- Title
- Black dove : mamá, mi'jo, and me / Ana Castillo.
- Publisher
- New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2016.
- Edition
- First Feminist Press edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280).
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-3663