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Penelope waiting for Odysseus: Three poems
Extracts from So Spoke PenelopeBy Tino VillanuevaThis is the palace where I’ve learned to survive;where two years ago I embraced Odysseus,stout son of Laertes, one last time—one long embrace was all it...
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La Espera y el Dolor
Review of So Spoke Penelope: author, Tino VillanuevaBy Felipe de Ortego y GascaGrowing up in a household of Socialist Mexican expatriates who found refuge in the United States after the Mexican civil...
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Fighter for the lives and rights of undocumented immigrantsExtract from: The Power of One: Enrique Morones and the Border Angels Story; author, Richard Griswold Del CastilloPhotos by Pamela...
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The Absurd and Human Reality : The Word and the Art
Extracts from Glass Moon Over Images of Sand A Collection of Brief NarrativesBy Edel RomayThe woman and the man perceived, felt, smelled and listened over the interior horizon of the exterior...
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New Literary Competition for a Spanish Manuscript
All Chicana and Chicano writers who have unpublished manuscripts in Spanish between 200-300 pages in length including novels, short story collections, and/or testimonies are invited to submit their...
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Low cost non-profit colleges for Los de Abajo: Why not?
By Rodolfo F. AcuñaWhen I told my father that we were going to call ourselves “Chicanos”, he responded “Chicano, Chicano, those are the people that hang around the parks on Sundays.” I thought to...
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El Activista: más que sólo la biografía de un rebelde
Reseña del libro por Lylia Palacios HernándezLos grandes ojos de la infancia que todo se comen, imperturbables, sin parpadear, veían como se aproximaba la mayor de las vecinas.El niño de ocho años,...
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Edison Geemez—¿El Inventor?
By Tommy VillalobosUn Pobre y un Poco Tomado sat in La Prieta Bar conversing over beer. Arthur Dichón strolled in, waving to Connie Ferno, the battle-scarred bartender, who was absorbed in a fat novel....
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The Chicano Movement : Mexican American History and the Struggle for Equality
Extracted chapters from a paper by Carlos Muñoz, Jr., published by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office, www.rosalux-nyc.orgThe Emergence of a Chicano Movement By 1960, the Mexican American...
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Asi Es La Vida
Jose Viramontes, the author's grandfatherBy Mike TorresThe first time I heard “Yesterday” by the Beatles I was in my uncle’s old pickup. I was 10. It was AM radio, so it crackled in and out. We were...
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A Monumental Book of the Works of Chicano Poet, Reyes Cárdenas
Extracts from Reyes Cárdenas: Chicano Poet 1970-2010Chicano Territory (1970)My long black and white hair attracts too much attention.Especially in a little redneck town like Seguin,but even walking...
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Forty Years of Building a Literary Legacy: Reyes Cárdenas
A critique ofReyes Cárdenas: Chicano Poet 1970-2010By Juan Rodríguez The Chicano Movement, in its cultural nationalist stage (1965- 1975), gave birth to a trinity of Tejano poets whose deep faith in...
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The Power of Changing Demographics in the 2012 Elections and Beyond
Kathy Culliton-González on Election Day 2012 in Miami, with Mr. Lanier Roosevelt, who spontaneously volunteered to redirect voters to their correct polling place, as they had been sent to a polling...
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Diálogo: A bilingual journal published by the Center for Latino Research at DePaul Universityinvites submissions for the following special theme.LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINA/O POETRY IN THE 21ST...
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Perspectives on the History of Mexicans in the U.S.: Where we are now and...
MECHA meeting circa 1971, courtesy of Jose Reyes GarcíaBy Rodolfo F. AcuñaMexican American or Chicana/o History by definition is the history of people of Mexican origin in the United States. It is...
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We are all related
Three chapters from the book: If You’ve Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You’ve Lost Your Way : An Introduction to American Indian Thought & PhilosophyBy Russell MeansTHE ANCESTORSEvery part of...
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Poemas desde el Manicomio: por Leopoldo María Panero Ü
Poems from the Insane Asylum: by Leopoldo María Panero ÜCuatro Poemas/Four Poems en traducción/translated por/by Arturo MantecónEl locoHe vivido entre los arrabales, pareciendoun mono, he vivido en la...
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PENSAMIENTOS LITERARIOS A column
By Felipe de Ortego y GascaEditor’s Note: “Somos en escrito” is all about writing: the act of writing, the writing itself and the creator of the words. The essayist is eminently qualified to write...
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Rainbows and Mariposas
By Mike TorresAs the church bells chimed eight overhead, she walked into the church to say her confession, like she did every Wednesday. She stopped and dipped two fingers in the holy water and...
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“…his journey into the world of spirits”
Extract from The Old Man’s Love Story, author: Rudolfo AnayaChapter 1Oh, LostThere was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife. She died in his arms one night.He sat at the...
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