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Internet Resources

 www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/ Cleaver/zapsincyber.html Indigenous woman—Excellent site for Zapatista then and now

   Monument to Malinche

  paining La Rêve fr z,s;omvjr. 1939 by Antonio Ruiz el corzo

 www.americas-fr.com/histoire/ cortes2.html part of paining of Hernan Cortes and La Malinche

 www.pbs.org/conquistadors/ cortes/cortes_e00.html part of a copy of historical drawing of the Malinche translating

 www.venturamarin.com.mx/ventura/ esculturas/eu/malinche1.htm sculture of La Malinche website no longer in service

 www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/ history/timeline/14.html Soldadera with pistol and cartridges

 www.amnestyusa.org/women/ defenders/digna.html smiling Digna Ochoa

Digna Ochoa y Placido

Especially helpful were the weekly news summaries provided by the Mexican Solidarity Network at http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/ and articles in http://www.jornada.unam.mx/indexfla.php

There are hundreds of articles on the assassination of Digna Ochoa. We found the following websites informative. 

http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/defenders/digna.html

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mexico/guerrero/mil/jornada101399.html

http://www.lchr.org/defenders/hrd_mexico/hrd_ochoa/hrd_ochoa.htm

http://www.dfn.org/focus/women/wcl-ochoa.htm

http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/302844.html

http://www.rebelion.org/ddhh/najar100602.htm

www.dominicos.org/verapaz/ textos/dignidad.htm

 www.angelfire.com/pq/altacalifassur/ favorites.html

 www.zapapres.de/ Indigenous women

   

Books

Adams, Jerome R. Latin American Heroes: Liberators and Patriots from 1500 to the Present, Ballantine Books, New York, 1991.

Alvarez, Samuel Salinas, Las Mujeres el la Revolución, Museo Nacional de la Revolución, 2000.

Bernal, Ignacio and Daniel Cosio Villegas, Alejandra Moreno Toscano, Luis Gonzalez, Eduardo Blanquel and Lorenzo Meyer. A Compact History of Mexico, El Colegio de Mexico, 2000.

Chasteen, John Charles. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2001.

Hayden, Tom. The Zapatista Reader, Thunder Mouth Press, New York, 2002.

Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Perennial, New York, 2002.

Leon-Portillo, Miguel. Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1992.

Pinkola Estés, Clarissa Ph.D., Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype,Ballantine Books, New York, 1992. “Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life (pp. 298-303).” It includes an explanation and the story of La Llorona.

 

  Books on Frida Kahlo

We read aloud in class--

Turner, Robyn Montana. Frida Kahlo, Little Brown, Hong Kong, 1993.

Cruz, Barbara C. Krida Kahlo: Portrait of a Mexican Painter, Enslow Publisher, Inc. New Jersey, 1996.

When we searched Amazon,com we found 97 books listed under Frida Kahlo. The following were recommended for libraries.

Frida Kahlo (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) by Mike Venezia

Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House (Adventures in Art) by Magdalena Holzhey

Frida Kahlo (Artists in Their Time)by Jill A. Laidlaw

Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter (Library of Famous Women Juniors) by Kristen Woronoff


Frida Kahlo (The Great Hispanic Heritage)
by John F. Morrison, Chelsea House Publications

Frida Kahlo: Mysterious Painter (The Library of Famous Women) by Nancy Frazier

Frida Kahlo: Portrait of a Mexican Painter (Hispanic Biographies) by Barbara C. Cruz

Frida Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted Herself (Smart About Art) by Margaret Frith, et al

Frida Kahlo: Mexican Painter by Hedda Garza, Robert Green

 

  Digna Ochoa y Placido

Especially helpful were the weekly news summaries provided by the Mexican Solidarity Network at http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/ and articles in http://www.jornada.unam.mx/indexfla.php

There are hundreds of articles on the assassination of Digna Ochoa. We found the following websites informative. 

http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/defenders/digna.html

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mexico/guerrero/mil/jornada101399.html

http://www.lchr.org/defenders/hrd_mexico/hrd_ochoa/hrd_ochoa.htm

http://www.dfn.org/focus/women/wcl-ochoa.htm

http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/302844.html

http://www.rebelion.org/ddhh/najar100602.htm