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Mexican-American Culture

Sandra Cisneros Author Study
Mexican-American Culture (p. 700)

Use the Web sites below to complete the following activity.

Find out more about the Mexican-American Culture that Cisneros writes about. What are some of its values, traditions, and customs? To find information, interview a Mexican-American classmate, or use print resources such as periodicals and encyclopedias or nonprint resources such as the Web sites below. Then present your findings to the class in an oral report.

The Azteca Web Page http://www.azteca.net/ aztec/
This award-winning Web page provides a great deal of information and many links to further sources related to the study of Mexican-American culture.

Making Face, Making Soul: A Chicana Feminist Home Page http://www.chicanas.com/
Devoted to the study of Mexican-American women, this site provides biographies of many artists and writers, along with other information.

Chicano! Home Page http://www.pbs.org/ chicano/ index.html
This PBS Web page on the history of the Mexican-American civil rights movement includes a time line of Mexican-American history, biographies of important figures, and much more.

 

 

 

  

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