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Here’s what really happened: A Revisionist History of the Spanish Influence...
First a review of the book, followed by two excerptsReview of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States: author, Felipe Fernández-ArmestoBy Roberto HaroIs it possible for a professor to...
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Writing, Culture, and the Vagaries of Life
Check out the extracts featured earlier Review of Things We Do Not Talk About: Exploring Latino/a Literature Through Essays and Interviews: author, Daniel A. Olivas By Felipe de Ortego y GascaIn The...
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A memoir in poetry, art and emotion
Allegory of Sight, Plate 4Extracts from Letters to the Poet from His BrotherBy Maceo MontoyaThis book in which California’s overlooked agricultural landscape echoes off the ink is a hybrid memoir woven...
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In Memory of Tomás Atencio : October 1, 1932 – July 16, 2014
Tomás AtencioPhoto courtesy of Rick BelaEditor’s Note: Tomás Atencio was a pioneer in advancing the recognition and evolution of Chicano literature, His contribution since the early 1970s in creating...
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La Maldición de Zapata
Un quiosco de música en la plaza, Oxnard, CaliforniaPor Álvaro RamírezDespués de trabajar treinta años en la empresa del Southern Pacific Railroad, Eligio González se jubiló el 15 de marzo de 1995;...
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Poems with a Knockout Punch
Extracts from Red Leather GlovesBy B. V. OlguínRED LEATHER GLOVES After fighting to shake off red leather gloves into another boy’s face, the pain comes back again because your hands are wrapped too...
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The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz
Saenz commissioned Humberto Cavazos to do this painting in 1932 from sketches he had made on the battlefieldBy Emilio ZamoraEditor's Note: Great stories always seem to start in the most unexpected...
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Destiny? Curse? Mutation? What a Bonjour man must do
Tying the Knot : Extract from The Bonjour Gene: A NovelBy Julio Marzán Face up on Anthony’s bed, Michael Bonjour listened to the mandolin trio tuning up amid the engagement party bustle in the many...
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Somos en escrito Interviews Boxer/Poet/Professor B. V. Olguín
Q&A about his book of poems: Red Leather GlovesS.e.e.: Why did you write this book and what are the boxing poems really about?I wrote this book as a purging of sorts. I was an amateur boxer in...
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All of us, growing up dusty
Extracts from Rising, Falling, All of UsAn Interview from The Latino Book Club followsBy Thelma T. ReynaPoet With BraidsLike docile snakes, your braids lie thick, blackness glossy and knotted to your...
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Vital Poems
Photographs by Thomas McGovernA review by author Rosa Martha Villarreal of Vital Signs follows.Three extracts from Vital Signs: author, Juan DelgadoThe Singer, Amparo Draws in faces, children...
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In Poetry – a Force for Change
Review of For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey: author, Richard BlancoByThelma T. ReynaWhenRichard Blancostepped to the podium on January 21, 2013, at the inauguration of President...
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A place where only the ball was white…
Baseball’s Travelin’ MenAfter Martín Espada’s “Alabanza”In Praise of the Latin and Negro LeaguesBy Gustavo Adolfo Aybar Alabanza.Praise the ballplayers with their call and responseand scars on...
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Los Norteños: ¿que sea peor; la ausencia o el regreso?
Mexicans, immigrants and citizens alike, were repatriated to Mexico. Ironically, this Chamber of Commerce had money to buy billboard space.Photo courtesy of the authorA little known but potent force in...
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What is truth?
Extract from The Nature of Truth; author, Sergio Troncoso Illustration by Jorge EncisoChapter OneHelmut Sanchez yanked the steel ring of the creaky wooden door and stepped...
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Peek-a-book: A boy's animal family!
Beauford Peever's Animal FamilyBy Hector CurrielThe story of my book started some four years ago, in a casual conversation with my wife about how sometimes members in our family have certain animal...
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Six-guns on the Table – Death at the Door
Excerpt from Dead Man’s Trail: author, Martin Hill OrtizIn its Mexican days, Capp’s Hole served as a jail. Hardly more than head high, its small windows were barred. Bullet holes pocked its unpainted...
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..."just don’t tell him what you’re really like"
My Good Gray MorningPara Ernesto Trejo SiempreBy Stephen D. GutierrezLos dos poetasshowed up on my lawn in the early morning, Ernesto Trejo and Omar Salinas. They loomed in my window walking across the...
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Phoenix Rising
Felipe de Ortego y Gasca about 1943Excerpt from Bravo Road: A memoir; author, Felipe de Ortego y GascaBy Felipe de Ortego y GascaI was 14 when I first heard the name “Carnegie” in association with the...
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Fragments of a girl’s life, day by day
Extract from Gabi, A Girl in Pieces: author Isabel Quintero aka Gabi HernandezAugust5Iwassittingatthe backofthe bustoday,watchingthe oldretardedcouple...
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