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Retro Thoughts on Bruce-Novoa
Pensamientos LiterariosRe-thoughts on Retrospace: Collected Essays on Chicano Literature, author,Juan Bruce-Novoa, Arte Público Press, 1990By Felipe de Ortego y GascaTwenty-three years after its...
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Graphically en escrito: The Realm
Extract from The Realm, author, Ricardo Lira AcuñaEditor's Note: The graphic novel is a literary genre unto itself. Here is a prime example by a Chicano writer who hails from Arizona but now calls L.A....
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On this Memorial Day
In fulfillment of their pledgeBy Armando RendónOur warriors are dying day by day—Survivors of battles on foreign lands,Normandy, Bataan, Iwo Jima, the Bulge—more each day make their final...
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La Marea, The Tide, Is Fuerte, Fuerte, Fuerte …
By María DeGuzmán and Carisa R. ShowdenThese photographs accompanied by haiku poetry deal in miniature forms—photographs of figurines or “minikins” less than one inch tall and three-line poems—that...
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"...someone has to die for a murder"
Extract from Every Broken Trust: author, Linda RodriguezChapter 1“This won’t work!” I slammed the door to Forgotten Arts behind me, shutting out stifling late-August heat. Ignoring the bell swinging on...
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“When Were You Last in Mexico?”
Ethnic Identity and a 1950s Bus Trip through the SouthExtract from the book, Feeling the Unthinkable: author, Don GutierrezIn early January of 1958 my wife Marlene and I left Berkeley, California, on a...
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A primer on the Hispanic Consumer Market
Extract from The ABCs and Ñ of America’s Cultural Evolution: author, Jim Estrada"Becoming Culturally Relevant"Quien desea aprender, pronto llegará a saber.Translation: Who desires to learn will quickly...
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Manifesto goes electronic
Chicano Manifesto, first published by Armando Rendón in 1971, has caught up with the 21st Century and is now available as an E-Book from Smashwords.com or Amazon.com. An historical and personal account...
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Chicago’s Mexican Southside: “a physical and imagined community”
Extracts from: Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940: author, Michael Innis-JiménezChapter 5, Pages 92-96 In 1925, Claretian Father James Tort, a Spaniard, took over...
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"...do whatever necessary to 'make it in Hollywood'
Extract from Alejandro’s Story: author, Roberto de HaroChapter 1 In the BeginningThings are always at their best in their beginning.Blaise Pascal,Lettres Provinciales (1656–1657)When does life really...
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"...the echoes of our souls"
Children of MagdaleneBy Emanuel XavierThere are so many dead pretending to live amongst us nowwho belong to a church hidden behind the harvest of hatewhich takes us in and blinks us out with ignorant...
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Lipstick con Chorizo, first online serial novel, now an E-Book
Tommy Villalobos, who dared to venture into the unknown depths of online publishing with Somos en escrito Magazine by letting us serialize Dickens-like the 21 chapters of his first book, Lipstick con...
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The Bed
Illustration for this story by Salvadoran artist Rafael Varela for a show at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco which dealt with Memory and Mourning. By Carolina RiveraEach time the brutish...
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“Aztlán has to be in California, in the vast region along the Colorado and...
Extract from Ancient Footprints of the Colorado River: author, Alfredo Acosta FigueroaEditor’s Note: Figueroa is convenor of La Cuna De Aztlán Sacred Sites Protection Circle which has stopped two Solar...
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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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