Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me

Synopsis

In This Collection Of Essays, Ana Castillo Examines What It Means To Be A Single, Brown, Feminist Parent In A World Of Mass Incarceration, Racial Profiling, And Police Brutality. Castillo Writes About Intergenerational Stories From Mexico City To Chicago, And She Narrates Some Of America's Social Injustices Through The Lens Of Motherhood-- Introduction -- My Mother's Mexico -- Remembering Las Cartoneras -- Her Last Tortillas -- Peel Me A Girl -- Bowing Out -- On Mothers, Lovers, And Other Rivals -- When I Died In Oaxaca -- Are Hunters Born Or Made? -- Swimming With Sharks -- What's In A Nombre -- Mi'jo's Canon In D Major -- Love, Your Son, Marcello -- And The Woman Fled Into The Desert -- Searching The Other Side -- Black Dove -- Coda. Ana Castillo. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 279-280).