Affordable Learning Solutions at CSUDH

Marisela R. Chávez, Ph.D.

Title: Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies

Department: Chicana/Chicano Studies
Office: LCH B311
Phone Extension: x3326
Email Username: mchavez

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Affordable Learning Initiatives

Show All    CHS 100: The Americas: Cultural and Historical Synthesis    CHS 200: Key Themes Chicano/Latino History    CHS 460: Las Chicanas    CHS 486: Chicana/o Family and Gender Issues     CHS 495: Chicana Feminisms - SPRING 2011    IDS 330: Interdisciplinary Topics in Civilizations    HIS 345: History of the Mexican American People I - SPRING 2013    HIS 345: History of the Mexican American People I - FALL 2012    HIS 346: History of Mexican American People II - SPRING 2013    HIS 346: History of Mexican American People II - SPRING 2012    HIS 348: Labor in American Society    IDS 320: Las Chicanas    


CHS 100: The Americas: Cultural and Historical Synthesis

Spring 2013

Cost of Song of the Hummingbird, new: $19.95
Cost of ebrary edition: $0

Total savings per student: $19.95


Textbook is available free of cost to students through
ebrary.
  • Limón, Graciela. Song of the Hummingbird. Houston, Tex: Arte Público Press, 1996. ISBN: 9781611922929. ebrary (unlimited simultaneous access).


 

CHS 200: Key Themes Chicano/Latino History

Spring 2011
Student Enrollment: 41

Spring 2012

Article cost to students: $0

Savings per student: $70.00

Cost of Harvest of Empire: $17.00
Rental through CSUDH Bookstore: $8.29
Savings per student: $8.71

Cost of Tattooed Soldier: $15.00
Rental through CSUDH Bookstore: $7.31
Savings per student: $7.69

Total Savings per Student: $86.40

Articles are available free of cost to students through the library's eReserves.
  • Gutierrez, David Gregory. "Chapter 1: Legacies of Conquest." Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California, 1995. 13-38. eReserves

  • Gutierrez, Ramon. "Community, Patriarchy, and Individualism: The Politics of Chicano History and the Dream of Equality" American Quarterly 45 (March 1993): 44-72. eReserves

  • Guzman, Pablo. "Chapter 9: La Vida Pura." The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices From the Diaspora. Ed. Andres Torres and Jose E. Velazquez. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 155-72. eReserves

  • Torres-Saillant, Silvio. "Writing Has To Be Generous: An Interview With Angie Cruz" Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters 2 (Summer/Fall 2003): 108-27. eReserves
  • Ramirez, Catherine. "Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics" Meridians 2 (2002): 1-35. eReserves
  • Ruiz, Vicki. "Chapter 7: Star Struck: Acculturation, Adolescence, and the Mexican American Woman, 1920-1950." Building With Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies. Ed. Beatriz M. Pesquera and Adela De La Torre. Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.: Univ. of California, 2006. 108-27. eReserves
  • Sanchez, George J. "Chapter 18: Go After the Women: Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant Woman, 1915-1929." Unequal Sisters : an Inclusive Reader in U.S. Women's History. Vicki Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois. New York: Routledge, 1994. 284-95. eReserves
These books are available at a discounted rate through CSUDH Bookstore:
  • González, Juan. Harvest of Empire: a History of Latinos in America. New York: Viking, 2000. ISBN: 9780140255393 Available as a rental book in CSUDH Bookstore for $8.29
  • Tobar, Héctor. The Tattooed Soldier. Harrison, NY: Delphinium, 1998. ISBN: 9780140288612 Available as a rental book in CSUDH Bookstore for $7.31.
Students are required to purchase two books above in addition to using the library's eReserves. Professor Chavez used eReserves to offset the costs of two additional books.






 

CHS 460: Las Chicanas

Spring 2013

Cost of From Out of the Shadows, new: $9.20
Cost of EBSCOhost edition: $0

Total savings per student: $9.20


Textbook is available to students free of cost through
EBSCOhost.


 

CHS 486: Chicana/o Family and Gender Issues

Fall 2012

Cost of Next of Kin, new: $16.04
Cost of ebrary edition: $0
Savings per student: $16.04

Textbook is available free of cost to students through ebrary.
Rodríguez, R. T. (2009). Next of kin: The family in Chicano/a cultural politics. Durham [NC: Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822391135. ebrary.

Previous Semesters:
Fall 2011
Student Enrollment: 17

Textbook cost to students: $0

Savings per student: $22.95

Book is available free of cost to students through ebrary.


 

CHS 495: Chicana Feminisms - SPRING 2011

Spring 2011
Student Enrollment: 12

Article cost to students: $0

Savings per student: $30.00

Articles are available free of cost to students through the library's eReserves.
  • Cisneros, Sandra. "Never Marry a Mexican." Woman Hollering Creek. New York, NY: Random House, 1991. 68-83. eReserves

  • Orozco, Cynthia E. "Beyond Machismo, La Familia, and Ladies Auxiliaries: A Historiography of Mexican-Origin Women's Participation in Voluntary Associations and Politics in the United States, 1870-1990." Perspectives in Mexican American Studies 5 (1995): 1-34. eReserves
Required Textbook available through the CSUDH bookstore:
  • García, Alma M. Chicana Feminist Thought: the Basic Historical Writings. New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415918015 (List price, $58.50) Students are required to purchase this book in addition to using the library's eReserves. Professor Chavez used eReserves to offset the costs of additional books.



 

IDS 330: Interdisciplinary Topics in Civilizations

Fall 2012

Cost of Next of Kin, new: $16.04
Cost of ebrary edition: $0
Savings per student: $16.04

Textbook is available free of cost to students through ebrary.


 

HIS 345: History of the Mexican American People I - SPRING 2013

Spring 2013

Cost of Married to the Daughter of the Land, new: $24.95
Cost of EBSCOhost edition: $0

Total savings per student: $24.95


Textbook is available free of cost to students through
EBSCOhost.


 

HIS 345: History of the Mexican American People I - FALL 2012

Fall 2012

Cost of Manifest Destinies, new: $62.40
Cost of ebrary edition: $0
Savings per student: $62.40

Textbook is available free of cost to students through ebrary.


 

HIS 346: History of Mexican American People II - SPRING 2013

Spring 2013

Cost of Walls & Mirrors, new: $23.90
Cost of EBSCOhost edition: $0

Cost of Rebirth, new: $17.25
Cost of EBSCOhost edition: $0


Cost of !Raza Si! !Guerra No!, new: $28.95
Cost of ebrary edition: $0


Cost of Smeltertown, new: $55.96
Cost of ebrary edition: $0

Cost of Cannery Women, Cannery Lives, new: $28.95
Cost of EBSCOhost edition: $0

Total savings per student: $155.01

Textbook is available to students free of cost through EBSCOhost and ebrary.


 

HIS 346: History of Mexican American People II - SPRING 2012

Spring 2012

Cost of Raza Si! Guerro No! to students: $51.15
Cost of ebrary edition: $0

Cost of Smeltertown to students: $52.00
Cost of ebrary edition: $0

Savings per student: $103.15

Textbook is available free of cost to students through ebrary.


 

HIS 348: Labor in American Society

Spring 2013

Cost of Walls & Mirrors, new: $48.00
Cost of EBSCOhost edition: $0

Total savings per student: $48.00


Textbook is available free of cost to students through EBSCOhost.


 

IDS 320: Las Chicanas

Spring 2013

Cost of From Out of the Shadows, new: $9.20
Cost of EBSCOhost edition: $0

Total savings per student: $9.20


Textbook is available to students free of cost through
EBSCOhost.