The Computer Is Down is at once a celebration of the crystalline and silvery image of the modern city, its advanced technology and economic power, as well as an iconoclastic questioning of the values
Poetry in English and Spanish, openly political, blatantly blunt, and religiously irreverent, reaches from the innermost corners of the soul to the streets of New York, to the battlegrounds of Central
The contributors, including Yolanda Julia Broyles, Hector Calderon, Margarita Cota-Cardenas, Lauro Flores, Patricia de la Fuente, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, Jose David Saldivar, Maria I. Duke dos Sa
In Tato Laviera's third collection, poems celebrate the array of stripes and colors making up the American people.The poems of Tato Laviera are complex and engaging. Through his words, his spirit, his
A collection of short stories set in a small Mexican-American community in southern Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, revealing the traditions, love, and social concerns of the families living there.
Lola Medina, a Mexican child living in the mid-nineteenth century, comes to live with a New England family who eventually appropriate all of her funds, in this parody of domestic nineteenth century no
"I didn't kill her," says the accused. Gabby Garcia has heard it all before. "Everything from outright lies to minimizations, omissions and simple denials." Garcia has all the cases he can handle, but
This book traces the history of the struggle for Chicano Civil Rights from the 1800s to the 1970s. The author looks at the individuals and cultural forces that shaped the history of the movement, and
One of four volumes that collectively comprise a comprehensive reference on Hispanic culture in the US from four disciplinary perspectives (the others cover history, anthropology, and sociology). The
Rafa’s first flight, a late-night joy ride with his brother, changes their lives forever when the engine stops and the boys crash land, with “Texas to the right; Mexico to the left.” Before the accide
This is the English translation of Lucas Guevara, the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States, Written by Colombian emigre Alirio Diaz Guerra and originally published in the
The author takes a surrealistic view of American society and politics during the period of unrest in Haight Ashbury and opposition to the Vietnam War, and looks at the spirit and ideology of the times
