With a book in their hands : Chicano/a readers and readerships across the centuries / edited by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Readers' testimonies. Personal biography: a house full of books / Alma Ester Cortés -- Learning to read / Argelia Flores -- Learned to read at my momma's knee / Carlos Cumpián -- La mees chancla / Carmen Tafolla -- On reading: books in my life / Eliud Martínez -- Holy scripture / Ever Rodríguez -- Storm's impact one for the books / Veronica Flores-Paniagua -- Gift of poetry, gift of reading / Irma Flores-Manges -- The bookcase / Lucía de Anda Vázquez -- Pocho librolandia; or, yes we do read too / Anthony Macías -- Un juego de libros añejos / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- A set of old books / Margarita Cota-Cárdenas -- Sea fever / Maria Kelson -- Reading Thomas Hardy / María Teresa Márquez -- They say that mejicanos don't read / Minerva Daniel -- In the stacks / Monica Hanna -- Los libros de mi padre / Shanti A. Sánchez -- My father's books / Shanti A. Sánchez -- Reading saved me from the chaos / Shonnon Gutiérrez -- The importance of libraries and Chicano literature / Veronica Ortega -- Nena / Vito de la Cruz -- Revisiting Nancy Drew / Beth Hernandez-Jason -- Oral interviews from the Chicano/a Readers Oral Project. Introduction -- Fernando Vázquez / Cuauhtémoc B. Díaz -- Lupe Rodríguez / Helen Fabela Chávez -- Reading in the past: personal libraries and reading histories. Introduction -- El don de Olegario (Olegario's gift) / Carlos Morton -- Growing up: book culture in the land of scarcity and want / A. Gabriel Meléndez -- The family library of Miguel A. Otero: an analysis and inventory / Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez -- Colonial New Mexico libraries: 1704, 1776 / Eleanor B. Adams -- Books in New Mexico, 1598-1680 / Eleanor B. Adams and France V. Scholes.

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