Chicana Feminism: Search For Books And Journals

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For my Bibliography project, I used the the topic of Chicana Feminism to guide my search for books and journals. Originally, my topic was going to be about the discrimination and/or sexism that chicana women face because of the fact that they are Latina and female, but it was eventually narrowed into a more compact and easier-to-search topic. Before, when I searched things like discrimination in chicano culture, I would get a few results, and not many would help me in any paper that I would be writing. Upon review, I saw that part of my problem was that I wasn’t using the advanced search and I was only searching with keywords. After I made the switch, and narrowed my search, I was able to scour the library database by using the subject

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