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Testimonios

Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-033-3, $17.95
288 pages (6 x 9), with b&w photos throughout
Published in collaboration with Bancroft Library Press, University of California, Berkeley

Unheard voices from pre-gold rush California

Farmworker's Daughter

Farmworker’s Daughter:
Growing Up Mexican in America

Rose Castillo Guilbault
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-034-1, $11.95
176 pp (5.5 x 8.5), with b&w photographs and glossary

New paperback edition with added chapters

El Corazon de la Muerte

El Corazón de la Muerte:
Altars and Offerings for Days of the Dead

The Oakland Museum of California
Trade Paper, ISBN: 1-59714-008-2, $24.95

A sumptuous tribute to a remarkable cultural feat. More…

Skin Tax

Skin Tax
Tim Z. Hernandez, Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera
rade Paper, ISBN: 1-890771-93-7, $12.95

Out of California’s Great Central Valley comes the bold new poetic voice of Tim Hernandez, already an established performance poet and community activist. Skin Tax is a powerful print debut of a poet with a mature and complex talent immersed in the themes of a young male wrestling with his sensitivity and his desires for love and affection.

Under the Fifth Sun

Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California
Edited by Rick Heide, Foreword by Juan Velasco
Trade paper, ISBN: 1-890771-57-9, $19.95

Under the Fifth Sun collects stories of love, family, work, exploration, politics, history, culture, and survival—fiction, poetry, memoirs, commentary, and drama—covering more than two centuries of Latino presence in California.


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