A vivid novel portraying the turmoil and tragedy of the Salvadoran civil war chronicles the death of a religious leader, who is shot to death by an El Salvadoran Junta that is shamed by the leader's c
A beautiful old-fashioned doll, long neglected on a toy store's shelves, becomes the last special doll given to a Mexican American girl when she celebrates her fifteenth birthday.
When the Cuban Revolution causes indiscriminate disruption throughout their country in 1959, three teenage boys are forced to grow up earlier than anyone could expect
The three plays in this collection-Waltz on a Merry-Go-Round (1975), Simpson Street (1979), and Women Without Men (1985)- are all milestones in the development of Hispanic American drama, but Simpson
A young Mexican American witnesses the guerilla warfare, banditry, land grabs, and abuses of Texas Rangers that were typical of the Texas-Mexico border during the 1930's
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta: The Uncollected Works gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and wri
The Handbook of Hispanic Culture in the United States is a four-volume comprehensive reference, largely written by US Hispanics, that explores four major areas: history, anthropology, sociology, and
A collection of writings by the poet, novelist, and essayist recalling her childhood spent shuttling between the land of her birth and the family's home in New Jersey.
Meet Trish Izquierdo, a young upwardly mobile Latina living in the not-too-lively and perhaps not-too-colorful town of West Echevarria.Trish knows the town's history well and, because she devours tra
