Recommended Chicano Reading
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Explore our "Essential Short List" of recommended chicano reading by clicking on each book cover below for more information. We present essential books in a variety of genres, with longer lists available upon request.
If you have suggestions or comments please email Scott Russell Duncan at scottrussellduncan@gmail.com with the subject line Chicano Reading List.
We highly recommend A Visual History of Chicano/a/x Literature as an excellent resource for a complete chronology of books published by Chicano authors from 1610 to 2021.
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​Somos en escrito Magazine and Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press is dedicated to publishing raza authors to express the narratives and needs of our communities, which typically get overlooked by the mainstream presses. We intend to be the institution nobody else will build for us.
We seek to publish books that look to the future, where gente exist, that finds solutions in storytelling, rather than provide mere visibility.
We promote narratives that break cycles, call to action: fiction that goes hand in hand with our nonfiction books that allow our community to do more than gaze in the mirror, but meditate on solutions within, the future, and transformation.
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