Roberto and his mother made thirty dozen confetti-filled eggs, or cascarones, for guests at his birthday party, and he is sure the bogeyman--the cucuy--has stolen them along with the tamales, cake, an
“You have a lot of enemies, Hipólito. I heard rumors in jail that some of the people you busted are going to try to kill you, so you better watch yourself.” U.S. Special Agent Hipólito Acosta had put
After suddenly being orphaned, twelve-year-old Consuelo reluctantly moves in with her American grandmother while hoping to return soon to her Mexican American family
The Way It Was and Other Writings is an autobiographical recollection of life in the Hispanic and politically radical communities of New York City. Jesus Colon was an Afro-Puerto Rican activist, disti
“If you don't do anything, nothing will happen.” Nancy De Los Santos Reza learned this important lesson early in life. College wasn't an option, so she got a job as a secretary. A colleague, an older
One of Maurice "Mo" Jourdane's greatest contributions to the advancement of farm workers in the fields of California was his relentless - and ultimately successful - effort to end agricultural employe
Eulogy for a Brown Angel began a new chapter in the mystery genre with the creation of the first Chicana detective in American literature. Now available for the first time in Spanish, readers can dis
When Brownsville attorney Alejandro Del Fuerte is asked to take over the prosecution of a case involving a Spanish land grant, he's excited about the potentially lucrative opportunity. There's billion
The poems included in this comprehensive anthology run the gamut of styles and themes, but all are by Latinos writing from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Some deal with issues specific to t
When a mysterious and valuable guitar is stolen from the shop belonging to old friends of her family, Monica determines to find out what really happened and to uncover the guitar's well-kept secret.
Pepita is afraid that her report about her family members may not be interesting, but she ultimately realizes that all of them play an important role in her life.
When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing n
It's the spring of 1978. John Travolta is riding high in Saturday Night Fever. Elvis has recently been laid to rest in Graceland. And in Knoxville, Tennessee, sixteen-year-old Antonio (Tony) McCaugh h
Follows Becky Escobar's struggle for success by examining the male-female relationships, and also the culture and language of Becky and the other strong-willed women in her Texas town
Gina Domingo lives entirely inside the teenage world of Southern California culture and absorbs its influences, until her grandmother Estela arrives from Cuba, offering her tales from the island that
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
