--- Forwarded Message from "Lector: The Hispanic Book Review Online Journal" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Lector: The Hispanic Book Review Online Journal" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: New Book Titles >Sender: "Lector: The Hispanic Book Review Online Journal" <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 06:38:53 -0700 >Reply-To: "Lector: The Hispanic Book Review Online Journal" <[log in to unmask]> 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." 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