Seventeen-year-old Miguel Angel spends every minute after school at the Packing Shed, working out with the Alisal Boxing Club. He dreams of becoming a champion so he can get his mother and five siblin
Margarito is eleven years old now and he's way past believing in Grandpa Ventura's ghost stories, but he loves listening to them anyway. One evening on his way home from his grandfather's, Margarito f
I don’t know how it happened, but I ended up being the writer in my family,” Jorge Argueta says in his poetic memoir. He wrote his first lines as an adolescent, though he didn’t know what the words me
This chronicle of exile is filled with voices of nostaglic reflection, of evocations and secret wishes, visions of return and the anticipation of a fate discerned in the noise of battle as well as in
Editors and scholars Kanellos (University of Houston) and Fabregat (University of Barcelona) have assembled a team of outstanding scholars to compile comprehensive studies on all aspects of U.S. Hispa
Originally published in 1928, and written by journalist Daniel Venegas, Las aventuras de Don Chipote is an unknown classic of American literature, dealing with the phenomenon that has made this natio
Like a Carlos Santana riff on a Miguel de Cervantes theme, The Quijote Cult is a lyrical, satirical look at a group of Vietnam-era Chicano college students - and would-be radical activists - who gulp
Eduardo Lin loves New York. Where else could an aspiring (if under-employed) Honduran actor possibly want to be? In The Big Banana, we follow the struggles of Eduardo, his gringo boss Charlie, his tr
Meet Seth Evergood, internationally celebrated journalist. A popular author and lecturer from an elite New England family, Seth knows everybody who's anybody in leftist politics - from Regis Debray t
When Pini was a little boy, his Cuban-American family always spoke with mistrust of a mysterious Them: the big-shot capitalists, the good old boys, the rich and the powerful.Now that he's grown into
Un Trip through the Mind Jail stands as one of the seminal works of the modern-day Chicano literary movement. First published in 1980 and long out of print, it captures some twenty years of poetry (a
Was it a spectre from the past, some Aztec revenant that had inspired the "Black Widow" to kill her husband? Or did these chilling murders have more to do with the rights of property and inheritance,
More than sixty poems, some with Spanish translations, include such titles as "The Young Sor Juana," "Graduation Morning," "Border Town 1938," "Legal Alien," "Abuelita Magic," and "In the Blood."
They watched as troops tortured and murdered their brothers, sisters, parents and children. Then they had to find their way from El Salvador and other parts of Central America through Mexico to the US
One of the most famous leaders of the Chicano civil rights movement, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, was a multifaceted and charismatic, bigger-than-life hero who inspired his followers not only by taking
