Julianna had been pestering her grandpa, Julian, to teach her how to make their family's special New Mexico green chile, but now that he is finally ready to what she needs most is his help with her social studies project. When he suggests that they can do both at the same time, Julianna is skeptical. "But how are you going to tell me about why our family came to Riverside and make chili at the same time?" "Making really good chile is a lot like telling a good story." Follow Julianna as she spends the day with Grandpa Julian, learning about her family's history -- and the secret ingredient to their version of New Mexico Green Chile -- along the way.

Two Chilies Dos Chiles

Politics & Social Sciences

Cruz, Julianna Maya

Social Sciences

Inlandia Institute

Format Paperback Subject Language Arts Disciplines

2011 Writing from Inlandia

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

With the 2012 Writing From Inlandia: Work of the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops anthology, the Inlandia Institute brings you new work by thirty-six talented writers - some veterans of the program, and some new voices - writing in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. These works represent hours of dedication to the craft, both in the workshop and outside of it. The Writing from Inlandia series was created to celebrate the participants in our workshops -- but more than that, it serves as a record of who we are at the present moment, here in this place that we call home.

2012 Writing from Inlandia

Travel

United States

With the 2013 Writing From Inlandia: Work of the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops anthology, the third anthology in this series, the Inlandia Institute brings you new work by twenty-three talented writers - some veterans of the program, and some new voices - writing in the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. These works represent hours of dedication to the craft, both in the workshop and outside of it. The Writing from Inlandia series was created to celebrate the participants in our workshops -- but more than that, it serves as a record of who we are at the present moment, here in this place that we call home.

2013 Writing from Inlandia

Oranges helped create the Golden Dream of Southern California from the time Eliza and Luther Tibbetts planted two Washington Navel Oranges in their Riverside yard in 1873. Over a century later, Inlandia Literary Laureate Gayle Brandeis has assembled a juicy collection of poetry, prose and recipes that explore, celebrate and memorialize our region's powerful citrus heritage. Together, these voices create a chorus singing of sweetness and loss, deep roots and seismic change. You will never look at an orange the same way again. Take a bite of Orangelandia!

Orangelandia: The Literature of Inland Citrus

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking by Ingredient

The voluntary integration of Riverside's schools in 1965 is a local story of national significance told by Arthur L. Littleworth, elected chairman of the school board at that time. While his personal reflections form the core of No Easy Way: Integrating Riverside Schools - A Victory for Community, interviews with numerous community leaders - parents, teachers and students who participated in, and were affected by this struggle bring balance to his perspective. The book, edited by Dawn Hassett, is richly illustrated by maps, original messages, including one from Ronald Reagan to Arthur L. Littleworth, and numerous historic photographs, some never before published, including that of Lowell School after the fire.

No Easy Way: Integrating Riverside Schools - A Victory for Community

Biographies & Memoirs

Arthur L. Littleworth

Historical

The voluntary integration of Riverside's schools in 1965 is a local story of national significance told by Arthur L. Littleworth, elected chairman of the school board at that time. While his personal reflections form the core of No Easy Way: Integrating Riverside Schools - A Victory for Community, interviews with numerous community leaders - parents, teachers and students who participated in, and were affected by this struggle bring balance to his perspective. The book, edited by Dawn Hassett, is richly illustrated by maps, original messages, including one from Ronald Reagan to Arthur L. Littleworth, and numerous historic photographs, some never before published, including that of Lowell School after the fire.

No Easy Way

National Winner of the 2105 Hillary Gravendyk Prize From the Foreword: Birth certificates, passports, citizenship papers: these are the documents that define our official identities, that make us legible to the apparatus of the state. For Asian Americans, such documents are often central to our family narratives, marking a history of migration, departure and arrival, rejection or belonging. Yet we are also well aware of what such official documents erase, enforce, or repress. Kenji Liu's Map of an Onion begins with a reflection on the role of such documents in shaping identity but the mapping Liu offers us in this collection rejects the sharp boundaries of the official cartographer. Instead, Map of an Onion is a border-crossing, coalitional text that finds its political voice in interruption. In Liu's poetics, family history structures, and is structured by, histories of migration, colonialism, and violence, yet Liu finds in the interstices of those structures a space of profoundly personal exploration. "Tell me how to say your name," he asks us, "because / documents won't protect us." -- Timothy Yu, author, 100 Chinese Silences and Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 From the Introduction: One way to read Map of an Onion is as a quest myth for the contemporary self-discovering, revealing, asking deeper, inquiring layer by layer toward the onion's core, which is, ironically, unlocatable. Self as sensorium of perception, self as "animal, bird," as family member, as the inheritor of eight centuries of Liu heritage, self as man, as Japanese-Chinese-Taiwanese-American living on borrowed Lenape Native land in a suburb of New Jersey, self as unstable construct, as citizen, diplomat, flaneur, saboteur, artist, as tech-savvy, code-switching trans-lingual being. Kenji Liu's illuminated Map of an Onion is a koan of deconstructions which interrogates within the fissures of difference those spaces within us and between us, as charged spaces of potential and becoming. A booklength question in a hard, graceful calligraphy, asking deeper, asking better, what does it mean to be a self, this Self, to "translate this search / between my family's four languages,"-emergent, reassembled of ancient molecules and sculpted by all the forces of culture, history and bloodlight into a man? If "nations need a parable to reinvent themselves," Map of an Onion may be that parable. -- Chad Sweeney, Hillary Gravendyk Prize Judge

Map of an Onion

Liu, Kenji C.

All Things Lose Thousands of Times is a Angela Penaredondo's debut collection of body/migratory/incantatory poems, exploring the alchemy and ritual of poetics that stem from the space of in-between or realm of intersections. These are grey zones where energies that lie opposite of the same spectrum finally collide and intermingle: the intellect and the sensual, the profane and the holy, love and violence, memory and erasure. Here, there are no geographical or cultural boundaries marked, no sides are chosen, only a maneuvering through, a queering of, and a resisting to. All Things Lose Thousands of Times are feminist-oriented poems investigating where fragments of the body's memory, culture, gender and desire gather, then finally piece themselves together to form into new shapes: a hybrid woman, a female assemblage, a history palimpsest, a transnational body.

All Things Lose Thousands of Times

Peñaredondo, Angela

The year was 1970. The city of Riverside, once home to the nation's citrus industry and still spotted with orange groves, had 150,000 residents. The Beatles' "Let It Be" and Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water" were in the Top Ten. Stories about the growing "women's movement" filled newspapers and magazines. Pat Mainardi put forth a proposal for "wages for housework." Bella Abzug was elected to Congress. Feminists staged sit-ins at Ladies Home Journal and Newsweek. Robin Morgan published Sisterhood Is Powerful. We were women ranging in age from 30 to 45, hailing from Ireland, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and California, with husbands at work and children in school. Two of us--Rachel and Marge--were born in Riverside. Others moved here with our husbands for jobs at UCR, RCC, and March Air Force Base. With varied musical skills and backgrounds, each of us decided to take guitar lessons from Keith Chalmers, a masterful teacher who lived in Riverside. Some of us had known each other from our churches, clubs, or our children's schools, but it was in those sessions with Keith that we came together as the Why Nots. When the Why Nots began making music together, we were busy as mothers, wives, volunteers, career women, and, now, musicians. That year, Keith got us our first "gig"--singing on the mall in downtown Riverside for the City's centennial. It was very fitting that we got our start in downtown Riverside celebrating the city we had all made our home; in many ways, our story is a Riverside story.

While We're Here We Should Sing: The Why Nots' Memoir of Sisterhood and Song

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