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El Libro De Calo: The Dictionary of Chicano Slang (English and Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Polkinhorn, Harry

Social Sciences

Floricanto Pr

Maravilla is the first urban novel about Latino youth's experinece in the streets of a major metropolitan area. This is also the earliest novel ever written about an urban Latina finding her way in the mean streets of L.A. This is a novel written about Latino youth living in the barrio. It depicts their experience in the housing projects of  L.A. The Maravilla project was a well known public housing in East  Los Angeles during the mid-fifties where poverty, crime and desperation often ran unmitigated. This novel for the first time depicts the  Chicano youth--long before they ever were known as such--in the L.A. barrios.  "I named you Consuelo," my mother said, "because you didn't stop screaming for hours when you were born. I figured you needed hope."   To Consuelo Concepción, "Cece" Contreres, however, hope seems to be just about all she's got. So when her boyfriend is cheating on her, her friends are doing drugs, and her parents don't understand her, is it any wonder that the only person she can talk to is St. Teresa de Avila?   From the housing projects of East Los Angeles, Maravilla, to the lively scene of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in the 1960s, Laura del Fuego's novel tells the absorbing and personal tale of a young Chicana, like many in real life, making her way in turbulent times. It is a thoughtful and sometimes violent story about coming of age in the heart of the barrio, discovering one's self in the midst of chaos and trying to make sense of a troubled life. An outstanding young writer, del Fuego knits a complex weave whereby her heroine progresses through the barrios of East Los Angeles during the effervescent years of the 1960's. Unlike, García Márquez' narrative that centers on political turmoil and violence, Del Fuego's bring us the asphalt jungle, violence in the inner city barrio, which equally unsettle and destroy the Latino pathos. This new height of writing style and drama is a welcome addition to the selected group of Hispanic women writers. Most highly recommended.

Maravilla (LA Mujer Latina Series)

Literature & Fiction

Del Fuego, Laura

United States

Brown Buffalo, as he was known in the barrios of Los Angeles among street people, at the height of the riots in in the late 1960's and 70's, was the epitome of the Movimiento. He was smart, rebellious, unpredictable, occasionally high on drugs, but terrifyingly honest to himself and the world. This is the story of the rage and fury that swept LA during the gestation of the Movimiento Chicano-the Chicano Movement-and of the remarkable life of Oscar Zeta Acosta-a radical civil-rights lawyer who defended Chicano activists, won new rights for Latinos, and challenged the LA establishment.

Love And Riot: Oscar Zeta Acosta And The Great Mexican American Revolt

Biographies & Memoirs

Moore, Burton

Historical

Latina Healers casts new light on the centrality of gender and migration status on the lives of Latina women. Encompassing the idiosyncrasies of individual decisions and the social context of the healers' lives, this book presents an original analysis of the relationship between gender, power, religious beliefs and social status. It brings the scholarship on life narratives together with understandings of the impact of migration and traditional beliefs on the lives of these women. Heralding women not as passive victims of social forces, but as active and creative agents of their lives, the book's findings are valuable for mental health practitioners, feminist scholars, and all interested in the lives of Latinas."

Latina Healers: Lives of Power and Tradition

Esp?N, Oliva

Mexican American, Latino, Hispanic and Chicano folk literature has been of interest to folklorists and been collected incidentally, mostly as part of compilations of the longer and more prestigious standard folktale. José Reyna began his collection of jokes 1969, and some of the jokes compiled then, appeared in Stanley L. Robe's Antología del Saber Popular [1971]. Picardía Chicana, the result of thirty years of work, contains five hundred twenty-six jokes which are reproduced here verbatim from tape recordings collected in the field. Some jokes were collected by the author as field research projects at Texas A & M University-Kingsville [1972-77] and at the University of New Mexico [1977-1984]. Others are synopses of jokes that Dr. Reyna learned over the years and took the liberty of translating to English for presentation here. This book represents the best Mexican American joke tradition. The title Picardía Chicana was selected in keeping with a well-known sixteenth-century Hispanic tradition of El Lazarillo de Tormes published originally in 1554, which spawned a new literary genre-la novela picaresca. Both the pícaro and the novela picaresca would surface in the New World--in Mexico--in the early nineteenth century (José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, El Periquillo Sarniento). The term picardía would describe the biting wit and humor of twentieth century Mexicans, such as Armando Jiménez, Picardía Mexicana, or that of Mexico's greatest philosopher, Octavio Paz, who would philosophize about picardía (Jiménez, Nueva Picardía). Here picardía is used to describe the humor of Anglicized Spanish-English bilingual Mexican Americans in the United States of America, neither of whom even existed when the word pícaro was born. But, given their status as abused orphans, and their propensity for linguistic wit and humor, it may well be that picardía-living by their [linguistic] wit-is what best defines the Mexican American culture.

Picardia Chicana: Latino Folk Humor. Folklore Latino Jocoso.

Reyna, Jos R.

Humor & Satire

Hidden deep in the heart of the American Southwest among the larger Hispanic population are descendants of the Sephardim, Jews from Spain and Portugal. Five hundred years after their expulsion from Spain remnants of Judaism are still practiced within Southwestern Hispanic communities. Often unaware of their origins, conversos have revealed, through oral history, how the ancestral faith of the Crypto-Jews has been passed on from generation to generation. "Five hundred years after the Inquisition, Gloria Golden manages to turn the little-known subject of crypto-Jews into an inspiring tale of identity. The rich portraiture and captivating oral histories offer a poignant view of what it means to discover and embrace one's Judaism." Elana Harris, Managing Editor, B'nai B'rith Magazine "Gloria Golden's images and text provide a valuable insight into the Crypto-Judaic world. All who are drawn to this fascinating subject will find great rewards in this volume." Rabbi Joshua Stampfer, Founder and First President of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies "The impact of these photographs and related interviews cannot be measured. Surely, through their existence, we touch a part of our past, and preserve it for our children's children. It is another piece in the great puzzle of our scattered people." Flora Sussely, Director, Adult Programs, Mittleman Jewish Community Center

Remnants Of Crypto-Jews Among Hispanic Americans

Golden, Gloria

Community & Culture

When the first edition of El Libro de Caló: Pachuco Slang Dictionary appeared in 1983, it was critically acclaimed as a much needed guide to a little-understood living dialect spoken predominantly by Mexican American teenagers whose dress, speech, low-rider cars, and attitudes set them off from those around them. Caló is popularly regarded as a bastard dialect, neither Spanish nor English. Linguistically, these notions are ill-founded; Caló has as much validity and expressive potential as any other dialect. That it is used by a group of people who exist at the edges of mainstream culture, however, has brought it into disrepute, and not many studies of Caló have been carried out with the thoroughness of this work. Now, building on that first landmark study, the authors have produced an expanded, revised edition. Based primarily on data gathered in the San Diego/Tijuana and Calexico/Mexicali areas, this edition incorporates terms from Texas, New Mexico and other areas of the Southwest as well. In an easy-to-use format designed to appeal to the native English-speaker, El Libro de Caló: The Chicano Slang Dictionary provides a unique and fascinating view of one aspect of our border culture. "As an anthropological record of a little-studied people, this work will have ... permanent value. Recommended for public and academic libraries in California and the Southwest... " CHOICE, May 1984 (about El Libro de Caló: Pachuco Slang Dictionary)

El Libro De Calo: The Dictionary of Chicano Slang (Spanish Edition)

LAMBERT, MALCOM

Velasco, Alfredo

MEXICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY, edited by Martha E. Bemal and Phylis Cancilla Martinelli, is the most outstanding collection of original research and analytical discussion so far published that focuses on Mexican American ethnic identity, an important dimension of ethnicity. This title is critical for educators and policy makers who set policy or make decisions affecting the Latino/Hispanic community for it provides an empirical and cognitive basis for understanding the idiosyncratic characteristics of this group as a unique culture and vis-à-vis the larger social context. Qui ego sum? 'Who am I? and Qui tu es? Who are you? are basic human inquiries. This book discusses and sheds light on the underlying dynamics determining and shaping identity and self-image of the Mexican American as an individual and a social group. This anthology is comprised of ten essays, whose topics range from historical analysis of Mexican American identity; society's views of Mexican Americans and how these images and perceptions influence ethnic identity; the identity of Mexican American women, young children, adolescents. It also includes discussions of the political and policy impacts of Mexican American identity in cross-cultural and Anglo American, and dominant group settings. This collection of essays places Mexican American ethnic identity in a broad context beyond the borders of the United States an into an earlier time frame. Ethnic identity is explored as both a resource for the individual and the group. Other aspects discussed are ethnicity and ethnic identity in Mexico and Mexican America; Mexican immigrant nationalism as an origin of identity for Mexican Americans; in-group perspectives to the broader implications of ethnicity and how the larger society affects Mexican Americans and specifies the links between ethnic identity and public policy; ethnic dimensions of gender and the dilemmas of high achieving Mexican American women. Most highly recommended. Lector.

Mexican American Identity

This is remarkable classic and unsurpassed monograph of original research and interpretive essays on the history of the Mexicana/Chicana. Collected here are twenty-five essays by an international group of scholars . who discuss methods, content and critical theoretical concerns of Chicana historiography to date. Together these writings comprise an unprecedented collection of studies on Mexican women in the United States. Part I of this book examines theoretical approaches useful to Chicana history and argues important distinctions between Chicana and women's history in general. Part II follows with a discussion on method and sources for Chicana historiography and draws on colonial census data such as marriage, baptismal and burial records, as well as archival material, oral history, and literature as historical sources. The working class experiences and labor activism of Mexican women before and during this country's Great Depression begin the discussion in Part III which then turns to the question of undocumented female labor in the United States and clandestine garment work in Mexico City today. An overview of Mexico's working class women's movement, its advances and setbacks over the century, closes this section. Part IV examines the impact of gender ideology, patriarchal structures, and feminist activism on male/female relations and social structure for Mexico and the southwest of the United States. The bibliography cites over 500 interdisciplinary items important to Mexicana/Chicana studies. Adelaida R. Del Castillo has researched the daily survival strategies of female-headed households in squatter settlements in Mexico City. She is co-editor with Magdalena Mora of Mexican women in the United States: Struggles Past and Present.

Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History (Mujer Latina)

History

Americas

Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager, who is the son of Sarita, his best friend.  Through skillful and entertaining dialogues during their courtship, which continue once the conquest is achieved, the novel reflects the deep generational chasm between the characters.  Santiago is the completely dedicated representative of that mythical first generation of gringos born in Mexico--but in a gay version--who cultivates values and pursues goals in life and who believes in the middle-class version of national progress through personal and individual commitment.  Arturo, on the other hand, is the typical postmodern teenager: pragmatic, addicted to working out, hedonistic, vain to the point of being narcissistic, cynical to the point of being cruel, and materialistic to the point of accepting money as the only God.  The personalities of each character are in stark contrast.  Arturo is gossipy, smooth-tongued, biting in his commentaries, and as Santiago says to him: "too intelligent and very mature for his age."  Santiago is jealous and obsessive, as insecure as an adolescent, and already deeply worried about the imminent arrival of old age and the loss of being physically attractive to others.  Santiago is politically correct almost all the time.  While Arturo says "balls," Santiago says "testicles."  Arturo enjoys talking about sex, while for Santiago "it's not good to talk about those things" although in the moment of passion his language becomes less conventional. In spite of the seductive physical attributes of Arturo, for Santiago sex is no longer everything, and it is because of this that he believes he sees in the young man the ideal candidate to receive his love.  Arturo, for his part, convinced of the worth of his body as a means to obtain money and frustrated at the few material possessions that his mother allows him to have, decides to explore a possible relationship with Santiago to the fullest extent even though to do so may mean that he will have to alternate between the role of a "trophy husband" and that of a bored "house husband."  Because of its formal structure and theme, The Strongest Passion could be classified as a psychological novel because it permits the full exploration of the subjectivity of the characters through language.  Whether what is said occurs during telephone conversations or in face to face meetings, the reader is a witness to the constant dialogue between Santiago and Arturo.  Zapata demonstrates his mastery of this technique, which will serve as a multifaceted recourse to develop a complex portrait of the characters and reflect their entire objective and subjective world.  Thus, through every day discourse, the characters are defined by what they say and the way they say it as well as by what they do not say. Thus, in The Strongest Passion, Zapata shows us that if indeed there are "women who love too much," there are also "homosexuals who love too much."  As Santiago realizes the impossibility of a reciprocal love, the reader experiences the process of an existential adaptation and the deconstruction of Santiago's discourse on love.  When Santiago realizes how his life must be, he gladly accepts his fate: during his life he has played, plays and will continue to play the role of the fool.  Nevertheless, far from being worried by it, he accepts such a role as a sign of identity that will give him the desired peace and the tranquility of knowing who he is in life.

The Strongest Passion

ZAPATA, LUIS

History & Criticism

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