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Black dove : mamá, mi'jo, and me

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2016

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Title:	Black dove : mamá, mi'jo, and me
Author:	Castillo, Ana, author.
Edition:	First Feminist Press edition.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York City : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2016. ©2016
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."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Castillo, Ana. Castillo, Ana -- Family. Mexican American women authors -- 20th century -- Biography. Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography. Mexican American families -- Biography. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Genre:	Autobiographies.
Other Title:	Essays. Selections
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

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