Teacher Guide

Heroes and Saints Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Moraha has published other published plays that are political in nature and meant to incite social change. These include Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here, and The Hungry Woman.

Some nonfiction books by marginalized folks that discuss environmental racism can help to contextualize and elaborate on the ideas Moraga presents in Heroes and Saints. Full Spectrum Resistance by Aric McBay, Indigenous Environmental Justice edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen, Environmentalism and Economic Justice – Two Chicano Struggles In The Southwest by Laura Pulido, and Ecofictions, Ecorealities, and Slow Violence in Latin America and the Latinx World...

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