| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
145 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
Presents the Chicano experience of living within, between, and sometimes outside two cultures, exploring the damnation, salvation, and celebration of it all. |
| Contents |
Chief Wachuseh -- Con safos -- Pendejismo -- The joy of jalapeņos -- The great taco war -- A mixed Tex-Cal marriage -- Dear Mr. Consulate. . . -- All the things I learned in school weren't necessarily true -- La Cuetlaxochitl -- Return to the motherland -- Passive resistance -- He who has two masters disappoints one. . . .or both -- Reasons to celebrate El cinco de Mayo -- Childhood, imagination and the art process -- Piņatas -- Memories of a Juarez nightlife -- La Cate -- The last supper of Chicano heroes -- Beggars and Pordioseros -- Mando, La Luz and Esmelta -- The desert -- My ecumenical father -- Tiburcio Vasquez: A Chicano perspective -- Ernesto Galarza 1905-1984 -- First Chicano actor hired by Luis Valdez -- A magazine for the dead |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans -- Southwest, New -- Social life and customs.
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Hispanic Americans -- Southwest, New -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
1877741078 : $10.95 |
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9781877741074 |
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