Chalino Sanchez was a migrant worker who became a underground singer of narcocorridos -- ballads about drug smugglers - until his murder, which remains unsolved. Then he became a legend. Two traveling salesmen plied their wares in a sweltering small town. The next day they were hanging from the town's bandstand lynched by a mob, a thousand strong.Hailed as a cult classic, True Tales From Another Mexico takes us to a colony of drag queens -- jotos -- preparing for Mexico's oldest gay beauty contest.We see how a bunch of humble rancheros invented the Michoacana popsicle, and a business model that poor people used to grow rich.We follow a Oaxacan Indian basketball team in Los Angeles as its coach fights to restore the purity of his sport, besmirched in America.Aristeo Prado was a gunfighter and robber -- a valiente trying to escape his past -- when he was ambushed on a noontime street and died going for his gun.Telenovelas, once a propaganda vehicle of Mexico's one-party state, flourished with political change and touched topics -- corruption, drug trafficking and poverty -- that once were prohibited.In Nueva Jerusalen, a theocratic village run by an excommunicated Catholic priest, residents receive voting instructions from the Virgin of Guadalupe.We enter the Bronx - the rude boys in the PRI wing of Mexico's Congress -- as they struggle with the meaning of rebellion.Some of these stories are strange and exotic. More often, though, they are from mainstream though ignored parts of Mexican life. From the fringes of the country, Quinones suggests, emerge some of the most telling and central truths about modern Mexico and how it is changing.True Tales from Another Mexico are the stories of people whose stories never get told. “This is a scrappy, lively, solid work of reportage about the real modern Mexico. It's insightful, crammed with information, and a terrific read.” —Alma Guillermoprieto, author, The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now, and Latin American writer for The New Yorker

True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx

History

Quinones, Sam

Americas

University of New Mexico Press

Chalino Sanchez was a migrant worker who became a underground singer of narcocorridos -- ballads about drug smugglers - until his murder, which remains unsolved. Then he became a legend. Two traveling salesmen plied their wares in a sweltering small town. The next day they were hanging from the town's bandstand lynched by a mob, a thousand strong. Hailed as a cult classic, True Tales From Another Mexico takes us to a colony of drag queens -- jotos -- preparing for Mexico's oldest gay beauty contest. We see how a bunch of humble rancheros invented the Michoacana popsicle, and a business model that poor people used to grow rich. We follow a Oaxacan Indian basketball team in Los Angeles as its coach fights to restore the purity of his sport, besmirched in America. Aristeo Prado was a gunfighter and robber -- a valiente trying to escape his past -- when he was ambushed on a noontime street and died going for his gun. Telenovelas, once a propaganda vehicle of Mexico's one-party state, flourished with political change and touched topics -- corruption, drug trafficking and poverty -- that once were prohibited. In Nueva Jerusalen, a theocratic village run by an excommunicated Catholic priest, residents receive voting instructions from the Virgin of Guadalupe. We enter the Bronx - the rude boys in the PRI wing of Mexico's Congress -- as they struggle with the meaning of rebellion. Some of these stories are strange and exotic. More often, though, they are from mainstream though ignored parts of Mexican life. True Tales from Another Mexico are the stories of people whose stories never get told.

True Tales from Another Mexico

Sam Quinones's first book, True Tales From Another Mexico, was acclaimed for the way it peered into the corners of that country for its larger truths and complexities. Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, Quinones's second collection of nonfiction tales, does the same for one of the most important issues of our times: the migration of Mexicans to the United States.
Quinones has covered the world of Mexican immigrants for the last thirteen years--from Chicago to Oaxaca, Michoacan to southeast Los Angeles, Tijuana to Texas. Along the way, he has uncovered stories that help illuminate all that Mexicans seek when they come north, how they change their new country, and are changed by it.
Here are the stories of the Henry Ford of velvet painting in Ciudad Juarez, the emergence of opera in Tijuana, the bizarre goings-on in the L.A. suburb of South Gate, and of the drug-addled colonies of Old World German Mennonites in Chihuahua. Through it all winds the tale of Delfino Juarez, a young construction worker, and modern-day Huckleberry Finn, who had to leave his village to change it.

Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration

Antonio's Gun And Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles: Volume 5

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Blurb

Nonfiction stories from writers in Tell Your True Tale: East L.A., the writing workshop given by Sam Quinones at East LA Public LIbrary.

Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles

Huang, Jian

Salgado, CJ

the sixth volume of nonfiction stories from Tell Your True Tale, the writing workshop by journalist Sam Quinones.

Tell Your True Tale: Sunkist/La Puente: Volume 6

Adams, Peggy

Stunning stories from the ninth Tell Your True Tale workshop run by journalist Sam Quinones and the LA County Library

Tell Your True Tale: Vol. 9

The best stories from four years of the Tell Your True Tale workshops by journalist Sam Quinones.

Tell Your True Tale: 25 Greatest Hits!

Great nonfiction stories by authors in the Tell Your True Tale writing workshop at East Los Angeles library. Stories of a vet returning home from Vietnam; of a janitor in Houston trying to find her children in Mexico; of braceros finding their way north and back home again; of a man learning confidence as he woos a woman; of a bus rider in Los Angeles; of a mariachi singing for a family on Christmas Eve. The Tell Your True Tale workshop, devised by journalist/author Sam Quinones teaches the basics of writing and storytelling by getting new writers to connect with the tales in their own lives.

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True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx

True Tales from Another Mexico

Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration

Antonio's Gun And Delfino's Dream: True Tales of Mexican Migration

Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles: Volume 5

Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles

Tell Your True Tale: Sunkist/La Puente: Volume 6

Tell Your True Tale: Vol. 9

Tell Your True Tale: 25 Greatest Hits!

Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles