Source: Newstaco

High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists

• Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998) by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
• The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
• Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000) by P. Freire
• United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007) by R. C. Remy
• Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006) by F. A. Rosales
• Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990) by H. Zinn

Table 21: American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists

• Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004) by R. Acuña
• The Anaya Reader (1995) by R. Anaya
• The American Vision (2008) by J. Appleby et el.
• Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998) by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
• Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992) by J. A. Burciaga
• Message to Aztlán: Selected Writings (1997) by R. Gonzales
• De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998) by E. S. Martínez
• 500 Años Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures (1990) by E. S. Martínez
• Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998) by R. Rodríguez
• The X in La Raza II (1996) by R. Rodríguez
• Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006) by F. A. Rosales
• A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003) by H. Zinn

Course: English/Latino Literature 7, 8

• Ten Little Indians (2004) by S. Alexie
• The Fire Next Time (1990) by J. Baldwin
• Loverboys (2008) by A. Castillo
• Women Hollering Creek (1992) by S. Cisneros
• Mexican White Boy (2008) by M. de la Pena
• Drown (1997) by J. Díaz
• Woodcuts of Women (2000) by D. Gilb
• At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965) by E. Guevara
• Color Lines: “Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?” (2003) by E. Martínez
• Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998) by R. Montoya et al.
• Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte
• Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997) by M. Ruiz
• The Tempest (1994) by W. Shakespeare
• A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993) by R. Takaki
• The Devil’s Highway (2004) by L. A. Urrea
• Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999) by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach
• Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997) by J. Yolen
• Voices of a People’s History of the United States (2004) by H. Zinn

Course: English/Latino Literature 5, 6

• Live from Death Row (1996) by J. Abu-Jamal
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994) by S. Alexie
• Zorro (2005) by I. Allende
• Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999) by G. Anzaldua
• A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca
• C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca
• Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001) by J. S. Baca
• Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990) by J. S. Baca
• Black Mesa Poems (1989) by J. S. Baca
• Martin & Mediations on the South Valley (1987) by J. S. Baca
• The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools (1995) by D.
• C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle
• Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992) by J. A Burciaga
• Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (2005) by L.
• Carlson & O. Hijuielos
• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States (1995) by L. Carlson &
• O. Hijuelos
• So Far From God (1993) by A. Castillo
• Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985) by C. E. Chávez
• Women Hollering Creek (1992) by S. Cisneros
• House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros
• Drown (1997) by J. Díaz
• Suffer Smoke (2001) by E. Diaz Bjorkquist
• Zapata’s Discipline: Essays (1998) by M. Espada
• Like Water for Chocolate (1995) by L. Esquievel
• When Living was a Labor Camp (2000) by D. García
• La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia
• Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003) by C. García-Camarilo et al.
• The Magic of Blood (1994) by D. Gilb
• Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001) by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
•  Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to “No Child Left Behind” (2004)
• by Goodman et al.
• Feminism is for Everybody (2000) by b hooks
• The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999) by F. Jiménez
•  Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991) by J. Kozol
• Zigzagger (2003) by M. Muñoz
• Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993) by T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero
• …y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995) by T. Rivera
•  Always Running – La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005) by L. Rodriguez
• Justice: A Question of Race (1997) by R. Rodríguez
• The X in La Raza II (1996) by R. Rodríguez
• Crisis in American Institutions (2006) by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie
• Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986) by T. Sheridan
• Curandera (1993) by Carmen Tafolla
• Mexican American Literature (1990) by C. M. Tatum
• New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993) by C. M. Tatum
• Civil Disobedience (1993) by H. D. Thoreau
• By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996) by L. A. Urrea
• Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (2002) by L. A. Urrea
• Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992) by L. Valdez
• Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995) by O. Zepeda

UPDATE, Monday, January 16, 2012

• Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin by Rodolfo Gonzales
• Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea