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Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press Books
Somos en escrito offers its books through our Tienda. Your purchase of a Somos en escrito book helps support our growth as a magazine and book publisher and makes you a partner in promoting Indigenous-hispanic literature. The so-called mainstream media won't do it for us, so we have to join forces to enable our writers and artists to show off their creativity and our reality.
For now, we are taking USA orders only. Though shipping times normally are within days, please allow for two weeks for delivery.
For now, we are taking USA orders only. Though shipping times normally are within days, please allow for two weeks for delivery.
Authors' proceeds for Our Grandfathers Were Braceros support the cause for justice of Alianza de Ex-Braceros del Norte 1942-1964.
Check back in December to see new merchandise from our revamped Redbubble store. We will have mugs, t-shirts, stickers and posters with our book covers and slogans with the scribe on our logo whom we call Popo.
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Insurgent Aztlán The Liberating Power of Cultural Resistance reconstructs the relationship between social political insurgent theory and Xicano literature, film and myth. Based on decades of organizing experience and scholarly review of the writings of recognized observers and leaders of the process of national liberation movements, the author, Ernesto Todd Mireles, shares a remarkable work of scholarship that incorporates not only the essence of earlier resistance writing, but provides a new paradigm of liberation guidelines for the particular situation of Mexican Americans.
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"Theorizing Cesar Chavez is an intriguing portrait of Cesar Chavez...Using him as a heroic defender of a more just approach to the STEM curricula is engaging on several levels. He was unquestionably a man of the people, the poor people especially; but he was also riven with contradictions as a labor leader, community organizer, father, jazz aficionado, guru, and (in the minds of some followers) a would-be saint."
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Postcards from a PostMexican chronicles life in a transcultural world that is emerging in Mexico and the United States, the result of one hundred years of migrations, NAFTA, the Internet, and social media. In this world, identities morph, change, and are reinvented at a dizzying pace. This is the arena of the new actor on the block: the postMexican, who inhabits a transnational space, has moved away from nationalism, and contrasts with the folkloric character that is being slowly relegated to the background in Mexico.
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Undesirable – Race and Remembrance is a collection of poems by Robert René Galván, inspired by a boyhood raised in the heart of Texas, days spent between his folks’ home in San Marcos and family in San Antonio. René has a way not only of shaping the meaning of words but how he wants us to see and feel what he has seen and felt: in this book, his memories become ours.
Born in San Antonio, he now lives in New York City, a noted Chicano poet and multi-talented musician. He is the product of a legacy fashioned by Galván’s antepasados who survived the Great Depression, the WWII years, the decades of discrimination and deprivation–a communal memory that he treasures and preserves in this book. Available online at:
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Chicano Manifesto, the seminal book on Chicanismo and the Chicano Movement, is now available in a 50th Anniversary Edition. By coincidence, Armando Rendón, the author, is also the publisher as CEO and Executive Director of the Somos en escrito Literary Foundation Press, the publishing house Rendón launched in 2016.
“I never could have envisioned that I’d be around to see a reprint of Manifesto a half century after it first came out but I’m not complaining. My intent is that new generations of Mexican Americans join with the elder Chicanas and Chicanos to face the next 50 years with a plan, with commitment to preserving and enhancing la cultura Chicana.” Available online at:
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