hooks, bell, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, South End Press, 1984.

A series of easily accessible essays addressing the
topic of feminist political and personal action, in
practical terms, from solidarity with other women to
the nature of work, relationships with men, education,
and struggle, among others.

Gómez-Quiñones, Juan, Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990, University of New Mexico Press, 1990.

A political history of Mexico and in the United States,
delineated along chronological and ideological lines,
clarifies similarities and differences in the conditions
of laborers and their fight for social equality and
justice.

Roediger, David R., The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, Verso, 1991.

A dense but thought-provoking investigation into the
process of racial identity formation, and the effects of
this racial identification on the size, strength, unity,
structure, and progress of the American working class...