CHICANO/A READERS ORAL PROJECT (CROP)

Director: Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez, Ph.D.

The Chicano/a Readers Oral Project is a repository of stories written or told by Chicano/a readers about their experiences with literature, newspapers, and the world of print culture in general. This database includes both digital recordings and transcripts of the interviews, as well as a catalog of titles, authors, and periodicals mentioned in the interviews. The database will be open to researchers in the near future.

The CROP attempts to raise (and provide materials for answering) such questions as:

How does our view of Chicano/a literature and culture change when we consider reading as part of the cultural capital of Chicanos/as?

How are Chicano/a reading practices and preferences different from those favored in Chicano/a literary production?

The CROP was designed to complemet the Chicano/a Literature Intertextual Database (CLID) that studies and catalogs references to literature (and print culture in general) in works written by Chicanas/os. As such, the CLID is most helpful for studying Chicano/a writers views on reading and literature, while the CROP provides the readers’ perspectives.

Chicano/a readers are invited to submit their contributions to: mmartin-rodriguez@ucmerced.edu

A partial list of authors, titles, presses, periodicals, institutions, etc., mentioned by readers who have contributed to the CROP includes the following:

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.

Aesop.

Agnostic Gospels.

Agustini, Delmira.

Akwesasne Notes.

Alarma.

Alexandria Library.

Alurista.

Amazing Spider Man, The.

Anaya, Rudolfo A. Bless Me, Ultima.

Andersen, Hans Christian.

Angelou, Maya.

Anthony, Piers. Incarnations of Immortality.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Prietita and the Ghost Woman.

Arellano, Anselmo.

Arguedas, José María. Los ríos profundos.

Arias, Ron.

Arno Press.

Auel, Jean. Earth’s Children series.

Austen, Jane.

Austin Public Library.

Baca, Jimmy Santiago.

Bacon, Francis.