Martinez, Elizabeth Coonrod

The story of Mexican-American actor Edward James Olmos, emphasizing how he used his Chicano background to bring integrity to portrayals of Latinos.

A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican nun who not only wrote poetry and plays and conducted botanical studies but was world famous for her knowledge of many subjects.

A biography of the Mexican-American mayor of San Antonio, Texas, who became the first Hispanic mayor of a major United States city in 1981.

Traces the dual heritage of Mexican Americans as early settlers before the formation of the United States and as more recent immigrants who came to escape political and economic turmoil in their homeland.