Black Dove Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

Ana Castillo

eBook - 2016

Growing up as the intellectually spirited daughter of a Mexican Indian immigrant family during the 1970s, Castillo defied convention as a writer and a feminist. A generation later, her mother's crooning mariachi lyrics resonate once again. Castillo—now an established Chicana novelist, playwright, and scholar—witnesses her own son's spiraling adulthood and eventual incarceration. Standing in the stifling courtroom, Castillo describes a scene that could be any mother's worst nightmare. But in a country of glaring and stacked statistics, it is a nightmare especially reserved for mothers like her: the inner-city mothers, the single mothers, the mothers of brown sons.Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me looks at what it means... to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Through startling humor and love, Castillo weaves intergenerational stories traveling from Mexico City to Chicago. And in...

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Published
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Language
English
Main Author
Ana Castillo
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB01CC32UPU
Release Date4/18/2016
OverDrive Read eBook
File Size12 GB
ISBN9781558619241
Release Date4/18/2016