Research Catalog

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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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.

Subject

• Castillo, Ana
• Castillo, Ana > Family
• 1900 - 1999
• Mexican American women authors > 20th century > Biography
• Mothers and daughters > United States > Biography
• Mexican American families > Biography
• Mexican Americans > Social conditions > 20th century
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Motherhood
• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Single Parent
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage
• Families
• Mexican American families
• Mexican American women authors
• Mexican Americans > Social conditions
• Mothers and daughters
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-280).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781558619234
• 1558619232

LCCN

^^2015048671

OCLC

• 923552884
• SCSB-12640117

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library