{"product_id":"black-dove-mama-mijo-and-me-paperback","title":"Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAna Castillo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA lyrical memoir-in-essays by an award-winning Chicana writer: the real power of \u003cem\u003eBlack Dove\u003c\/em\u003e comes when it speaks to what mothers face raising black and brown children all across this nation. (\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Dove: Mam , Mi'jo, and Me \u003c\/em\u003elooks 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 doing so, she narrates some of America's most heated political debates and urgent social injustices through the oft-neglected lens of motherhood and family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna Castillo is one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Chicana literature. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSo Far From God\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSapogonia\u003c\/i\u003e, both \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Books of the Year, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Guardians\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeel My Love like an Onion\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other books of fiction, poetry, and essays. Her newest novel, \u003ci\u003eGive It to Me\u003c\/i\u003e won a 2014 LAMBDA Literary Award; her seminal collection, \u003ci\u003eMassacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma\u003c\/i\u003e was re-released as a 20th anniversary edition in November 2014; and the award-winning \u003ci\u003eWatercolor Women, Opaque Men\u003c\/i\u003e will be re-released in a new edition in the fall of 2016 by Northwestern University Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCastillo currently holds a faculty post at the Bread Loaf program with Middlebury College (VT). Previous teaching posts have included the first Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Visiting Scholar post at MIT, the Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College (UT), and the Lund-Gil Endowed Chair at Dominican University (IL) . Other awards include a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Sor Juana Achievement Award by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago, and the Lifetime Achieve Award by Latina 50 Plus.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771588084000,"sku":"9781558619234","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d6f19d94a157ee035bef5ce859c260d3.webp?v=1780388962","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/black-dove-mama-mijo-and-me-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}