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The author takes us on a painful but uncompromisingly authentic social and psychological journey. Physically we move from the most impoverished barrios of Ciudad Juarez to the power centers of the American business world, psychologically we trace the "unsentimental" education of an ingenuous and noble, albeit streetwise, enfant sauvage of the Mexican subproletariat.

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Set in Chandler, Arizona, during the city's infamous 1997 migrant sweeps, Ocotillo Dreams is no run-of-the-mill border tale. In her captivating first novel, Melinda Palacio skillfully weaves a story of politics, intrigue, love, and trust. Isola, a young woman who inherits her mother's Chandler home, relocates from California only to find that her mother had lived a secret life of helping undocumented immigrants. Isola must confront her own con...

A collection of ten short stories reprinted from "Give the pig a chance" and other anthologies, nine new stories, and a play by Mike D. Garcia based on Rice's short story, "She flies.

Set in Chandler, Arizona, during the city's infamous 1997 migrant sweeps, Ocotillo Dreams is no run-of-the-mill border tale. In her captivating first novel, Melinda Palacio skillfully weaves a story of politics, intrigue, love, and trust. Isola, a young woman who inherits her mother's Chandler home, relocates from California only to find that her mother had lived a secret life of helping undocumented immigrants. Isola must confront her own con...

Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. Journalist Kent Ian Paterson takes us on a journey into the heart of chile culture. He delves not only into the history of the chile plant itself, but also examines the role of migrant farm labor, the problems faced by farm workers and the influence of labor movements. Additional chapters focus on the impact of university research on chile breeding, the use of pesticides, the salsa wars, changes in U.S....

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This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and events that have been blown away. Demetria Martinez has written a sensitive, caring and morally and po...

Fiction. In THE MYSTERY OF SURVIVAL AND OTHER STORIES, Gaspar de Alba considers the boundaries between sexes, lovers, cultures, generations, and beliefs and presents a body of work that allows her characters to both defy and celebrate these borders. This collection is peopled by those tenaciously exploring their places in the world: an ambitious young Mexican American reporter who quietly comes to understand the profound impermeability of this...