Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references 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.

Subjects:

• Mexican American authors — Books and reading.
• American literature — Mexican American authors — History and criticism.
• Mexican Americans — Books and reading.
• Books and reading — United States.
• Book collecting — United States.

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