LATINO LITERATURE FROM CALIFORNIA EDITED BY RICK HEIDE FOREWORD BY JUAN VELASCO SUB Gottingen 7 217 188 435 2004 A 1710 Santa Clara Univerdity, Santa Clara, California Heyday BooL), Berkeley, California
Contents Juan Velajco, Foreword: My Road to the Fifth Sun Acknowledgments Introduction xiii xix xxi ARRIVING Jaime de Angulo, Five Thousand Years 3 Nina Serrano, Antepasados/Ancestors 6 Ygnacio Villegad, from Boyhood Days 8 Vicente Perez Rodaled, from Diario de un viaje a California....11 Ramon Gil Navarro, from Los Chilenos en California 18 anonymoud, Life, Trial, and Death of Aurelio Pompa 24 LuL* Alberto Urrea, from Across the Wire 17 Idabel Allende, from Paula 35 Juan Felipe Herrera, Exiles 43 Graciela Linwn, from In Search of Bernabe 45 Ruben Martinez, from Crossing Over 52 Beverly Sdva, Wetbacks 59 BETWEEN CULTURES Gloria Anzaldua, Cuyamaca 63 Jaime de Angulo, from The Lariat 65 aluridta, we've played cowboys 73 Leonard Adame, My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly - and Hum 75 Luid "Louie the Foot" Gonzalez, Dona Tofta of Nineteenth Street 77
Octav'wPaz, from The Labyrinth of Solitude 82 Barbara Brindon Curiel, Recipe: Chorizo con Huevo Made in the Microwave 86 Ruben Medina, Busing 88 Ron Ariad, from The Road to Tamazunchale 89 Richard Rodriguez, from Days of Obligation 98 Eliad Miguel Muiioz, Returning 106 Guillermo Gomez-Pena, from The Multicultural Paradigm...108 Lucha CorpL, Underground Mariachi Ill POP CULTURE GarcL Rodriguez Ordonez de Montalvo, from Las sergas de Esplandian 115 Daniel Venegad, from The Adventures of Don Chipote or When Parrots Breast-Feed 117 anonymous, from Radios and Chicanos 123 Mary Helen Ponce, from Hoyt Street 125 Arturo Id lad, from La Mollie and the King of Tears 128 Eluu Miguel Muiioz, The Coupe de Ville 132 Victor Hernandez Cruz, The Low Riders 134 Alejandro Murguia, from Lucky Alley 138 Elcad Miguel Munoz, Little Sister Born in This Land 146 Gary D. Keller, from Mocha in Disneyland 149 Carlod Morton, from Rancho Hollywood: "A California Dream" 159 Juan Veladco, The Spirit of Sitting Bull No Longer Protects Us 170 Carlod Fuented, from The Crystal Frontier 171 IDENTITY Francisco Jimenez, from The Circuit 179 Jode Antonio Villarreal, from Pocho 185 Robert Vadquez, At the Rainbow 193 Joan Baez, from And a Voice to Sing With 195
Cherrie L. Moraga, from A Long Line of Vendidas 199 Roberto Tinoco Durdn, Tattoos 204 Michele Serrod, La Letty 205 Francidco X. Alarcon, I Used to Be Much Much Darker....208 Aurora Levind Moraled, Puertoricanness 210 Lu.id Omar Salinad, Aztec Angel 213 Ruben Medina, Classifieds 215 WORKING Arnold R. Rojad, from The Vaquero 219 Alejandro MoraUd, from The Brick People 222 Nellie Quinn, ad told to Anthony Quinn, from The Original Sin 229 Fernando Alegrui, from My Horse Gonzalez 237 Juan Marichal, from A Pitcher's Story 242 Gary Soto, A Red Palm 246 Raymond Barrio, from The Plum Plum Pickers 248 Victor Villadenor, from Macho! 256 Diana Garcia, Cotton Rows, Cotton Blankets 262 John Olivared Edpinoza, Aching Knees in Palm Springs....263 Dagoberto G'db,from Where the Sun Don't Shine 265 Lorna Dee Cervanted, Cannery Town in August 272 Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rosario's Graveyard Shift at JFK Memorial Hospital 273 Michele Serrod, Manos Morenas 276 CarolZapata-Whebin, Tierray libertad 278 POLITICS Cedar Chavez, from The Organizer's Tale 291 Roberto Vargad, Homenaje a la tercera marcha de Delano; manifestacion contra la uva gorda y blanca, Domingo 8 de Septiembre, 1968, San Francisco, Califas 297 Odcar Zeta Acodta, from The Revolt of the Cockroach People..300
Luid J. Rodriguez, The Twenty-Ninth 308 Roberto Tinoco Durdn, Rachel 311 Bernice Zamora, Notes from a Chicana "COED" 312 Margarita Luna Robled, It's About Class, Ese 315 Francidco X. Alarcon, Letter to America 318 MichaelNava, from The Hidden Law 320 Gloria Velddquez, Days Gone by in Orange County 330 Leroy V. Quintana, 187 332 Alfred Arteaga, Tomorrow Today 333 Lorna Dee Cervanted, Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races 338 VIOLENCE Pablo Neruda, from Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta 343 Idabel Allende, from Daughter of Fortune 348 Lu'u Valdez, from Zoot Suit 354 Jode Montoya, El Louie 365 Alfredo Via, from Gods Go Begging 369 Juan Felipe Herrera, from Days of Invasion 376 Franc'ucoAragon, Her Hair 383 Naomi Quinonez, No Shelter 385 Ruben Martinez, from East Side Stories 386 Richard Garcia, Open Letter to My Friends 391 Margarita Cota-Cdrdenad, from Puppet 393 Francidco X. Alarcon, Guerra Florida 399 COMMUNITY Francidco X. Alarcon, Sonnet XIX 403 Maria Melendez, The Seven Entrances to Aztlan (for Mixedbloods) 404 Leo Carrilb, from The California I Love 408 Ernedto Galarza, from Barrio Boy 411 Danny Romero, Watts: 1932 422
Danny Romero, Saint Aloysius 424 Luid J. Rodriguez, Watts Bleeds 427 Yxta Maya Murray, from What It Takes to Get to Vegas...430 Hector Tobar, from The Tattooed Soldier 439 Rowena Silver, L.A. Rain 446 Brandy Burrowd, Glitter 448 Leonard Adame, In December's Air 450 Andred Montoya, the rains have left and ernesto is dead....452 Pat Mora, Divisadero Street, San Francisco 454 Beverly Silva, East San Jose 456 Jodi Antonio Burciaga, Home by the Sea 458 Francidco Aragon, To a New Friend 462 LOVE & FAMILY Francidco X. Alarcon, Sonnet III 469 Diana Garcia, If I Trust Myself 470 Bernice Zamora, Roberto's Departure 471 Dixie Salazar, Summer Rain 472 Ernedto Trejo, Like the Earth 474 Floyd Salad, from Buffalo Nickel.476 Alma Luz Villanueva, La Llorona/Weeping Woman 481 Gil Cuadrod, Indulgences 488 Gerald Had lam, The Horned Toad 495 Maria Amparo Edcandon, from Esperanza's Box of Saints...503 Lorna Dee Cervanted, Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway..510 John Rechy, from The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez...514 Helena Maria Viramonted, from Under the Feet of Jesus....523 Leroy V. Quintana, Father 530 Laid Omar Salinad, My Father Is a Simple Man 531 Gary Soto, The Fights 533 Permissions \...)..537 Index of Authors 547