{"product_id":"black-dove-ana-castillo-9781558619234","title":"Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me","description":"\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: Mamá, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ana Castillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1558619232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781558619234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016 pg. 63","brand":"Ana Castillo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046782595327,"sku":"9781558619234","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8217d8be-01d7-4129-923b-13a8ce7e134c.jpg?v=1684986462","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-dove-ana-castillo-9781558619234","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}