BOOKS TO READ FOR DECOLONIZATION
RECOMMENDED BOOKS These are the recommended books that touch base on the importance of our ancestral civilization, accomplishments, identity and the crimes of the Europeans on our continent: The first book Daily Life of the Aztecs is pivotal due to the following reasons: 1. The Mexica were the last of our great civilizations of Anahuac with the Nahuatl language as the lingua franca. 2. There is more information on Mexica than any other Nican Tlaca group in all of Cem-Anahuac (the so-called Western Hemisphere). •Nevertheless, thanks to the accounts of Spanish friars and conquistadors, and to native and creole (Mexican-born) historians, we have more information on this civilization than on any other native culture of the New World. - MEXICO: From The Olmecs To The Aztecs 3. The best example in describing the daily and institutional life of the Anahuaca (Mesoamerican People) is to be found in the Mexica culture. •While we would like to criticize this oversimplified view a