Dispossessed Bibliography
Often my readers of Dispossessed want to know if this is a true story, and where they can find out more. Although there is no actual person my character Manuel is based on, everything in the novel is drawn from actual events, starting with the mass expulsion of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals from the U.S.
My novel is inspired by the following:
Decade of Betrayal
The PBS Documentary Latino Americans
The Chavez Ravine, 1949 a Los Angeles Story
The Documentary no más bebés
For further reading I recommend:
- Terminal Island, Lost Communities on America’s Edge by Geraldine Knatz and Naomi Hirahara
- From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in 20th Century America by Vicki L Ruiz
- Whitewashed Adobe by William Deverell
- And Anything but Mexican by Rodolfo F Acuña
