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>Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 06:38:53 -0700
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http://www.floricantopress.com/
http://www.floricantopress.com/catalog/title_list_253178_products.htm
Love & Riot: Oscar Zeta Acosta and the great Mexican American Revolt. By Burton
Moore. With Preamble by Diego Vigil with the assistance of Richard E. Vigil,
Nome de guerre, Mangas Coloradas. Edited by Andrea Alessandra Cabello. $39.95
Hardbound. ISBN: 0-915745-29-1 $39.95 This is the story of the rage and fury of
the Los Angeles Riots that swept LA during the gestation of the Movimiento
Chicano, MECHA, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, and of the remarkable
life of Oscar Zeta Acosta$F7a radical civil-rights lawyer who defended Chicano
activists, among them the LA 13, won new rights for Latinos, and challenged the
LA establishment.
The Cult of Jaguar. By Bonnie Hayman. Floricanto Press, Mountain View, Ca. 2004.
ISBN: 0915745585 Hardbound $39.95 Set in the sultry and mysterious jungles of
Mexico, with a backdrop of Mayan calendar, pyramids, Maya prophecies ( Maya
calendario, piramides y profecias), the story revolves around several
interesting characters who are after the same thing-each for a different reason.
What happened to the ancient native civilizations of Mexico and Central America,
which disappeared without a trace? The Mayan and Aztec cultures left important
archaeological sites in Middle America before their civilizations vanished from
this earth.
Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey. By Carlos T. Mock, M.D. Edited by
Andrea Alessandra Cabello, UC Berkeley. ISBN: 0-915745-54-2 $39.95 Hardbound
"Whatever your orientation, no matter your ethnicity, you$E2ll never be the same
after a journey through this odyssey. A vivid and visceral portrayal of a sexual
and political coming-of-age in today$E2s America$F7and beyond." Laura S.
Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor, DePaul University;
Columnist, Chicago Sun-Times "Gay literature is rich in so many areas, yet we
still have a need for strong stories from the world of Latino culture$F7about
family, about youth, about coming out, about creating adult relationships, about
AIDS. Now, Carlos Mock give us a strong Puerto Rican story that deals with all
these isues." $F7Patricia Nell Warren, author of The Front Runner and The Wild
Man.
Tina Modotti$E2s Mexico: A Tale of Love & Revolution Bonnie Hayman. Edited by
Andrea Alessandra Cabello, UC Berkeley. ISBN: 0-915745-40-2 $39.95 Hardbound
Hayman situates Tina Modotti (1896-1942) profoundly within her social period
from her 1913 emigration to San Francisco to a full-fledged member of the
intellectual wing of the Mexican Communist Party. She is one of the most
important contemporary women of Mexico. When the Mexican president was
assassinated, she was accused and deported. She returned to Mexico many years
later and lived alone in a small cottage until her mysterious death in a taxi at
age 46. Octavio Paz claimed that Tina Modotti belonged $E3more to the history of
passions than to the history of ideologies$E4 Modotti lived a full life of her
own choice, and that politics, ideology, and history were never paramount to her
own personal life$F7an indescribable story of fame, style, gossip and turmoil.
THE DRUGLORD. Neissa, Peter A. 2004 210 pgs. (pbk) ISBN: 091574526 $38.95 It is
the true life story of Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, the drug lord of the Bogota
branch of the Colombian Drug Cartel, this historical novel offers a factual and
knowledgeable Colombian perspective that well connected Colombians have known
for years: the real Drug Cartel, a group consisting of over two-hundred drug
traffickers, met for the first time in 1976, not to discuss drugs, but to devise
a solution to the kidnapping and murders inflicted upon them by the Marxist
guerrillas. This led to cooperation on other matters $F7like cocaine. The Drug
Lord, born an outcast in 1952, during Colombia$E2s bloody civil war, rose from
poverty to multi-billionaire status in the violent world of cocaine traffic.
LATINA HEALERS: LIVES OF POWER AND TRADITION Oliva Espin. 173 pgs. (pbk) Ser.:
La Mujer Latina. 2004 ISBN: 0-915745-49-6 Includes biblio and table. $35.00
"Latina Healers casts new light on the centrality of gender and migration status
on the lives of Latina women. Encompassing the idiosyncrasies of individual
decisions and the social context of the healers' lives, this book presents an
original analysis of the relationship between gender, power, religious beliefs
and social status of curanderas. It brings the scholarship on life narratives
together with understandings of the impact of migration and traditional beliefs
on the lives of these women. Heralding women not as passive victims of social
forces, but as active and creative agents of their lives, the book's findings
are valuable for mental health practitioners, feminist scholars, and all
interested in the lives of Latinas." Lillian Comas-Diaz, Ph.D.
www.floricantopress.com
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