Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond
by Nasario García
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781682830086
Pub Date: October 2020
“He got as close as he could to observe the spectacle; his eyes could hardly believe what he saw. Circled around the huge bonfire were many witches dancing and making all kinds of gestures amidst...
Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P. Ramírez
by Paul Bryan Gray
Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780896727632
Pub Date: October 2012
A biography of the first civil rights activist in Los Angeles, a brilliant eighteen-year-old Mexican-American, Francisco P. Ramírez, published a Spanish-language newspaper, El Clamor Público, from 1855 to 1859.
Stitchery expert Carmen Benavente returned to her native Chile in 1971 to find much of her family’s farmland expropriated and resentment fomenting against former landowners. Determined to bridge alienation, she offered to teach wool embroidery, a nontraditional art, to the village women of Ninhue. What followed is the story of a remarkable group of women empowered creatively and economically, whose work stands today among the most evocative of Chilean arts.
2005 Southwest Book Award “The stories are charmingly frank, unexpectedly humorous, sometimes sad, all reminiscent of a simpler, though not always uncomplicated time. . . . The book brims with anecdotes,...
New Mexico is an enchanted land—and from this beautiful place with its rich cultural diversity and complex history, a strong Hispanic literary tradition has grown spanning several centuries. Pláticas:...
