Aztlan: an anthology of Mexican American literature.

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Aztlan: an anthology of Mexican American literature. Edited by Luis Valdez and Stan Steiner.

Valdez, Luis, (compiler.). Steiner, Stan, (compiler.).

Record details

ISBN: 0394473698
ISBN: 9780394473697
Physical Description: xxxiv, 410 pages 22 cm.
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: New York, Knopf, 1972.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:: Where are the roots of men? The origins of Mexico. The heart of earth, from Popol Vuh : the sacred book of the ancient Quiche Maya -- In a time nobody exactly remembers : the Olmecs / Miguel Leon-Portilla -- The city of Tenochtitlan -- What greater grandeur, from the dispatches of Hernando Cortez -- Greater than Constantinople and Rome / Father Bernal Diaz del Castillo -- Life of the Aztecs -- Aztec democracy : in favor of the common man / Icazbalceta -- Aztec imperialism : Tlacaelel and human sacrifice / Miguel Leon-Portilla -- The cosmos and man : Aztec humanism -- Where are the roots of men? -- Does man possess any truth? -- One day we must go -- Who am I? -- The blood was fulfilled, from the Chilam Balam of Chumayel -- Death emerges from life, life emerges from death / Domingo Martinez Paredes.

The conquest : flowers and songs of sorrow. No, it is not a dream, from the Aztec Codices. We come as friends : the meeting of Motecuhzoma and Cortez -- The fall of Tenochtitlan -- The dirges -- Broken spears -- Flowers and songs of sorrow -- All wars of conquest are unjust / Father Bartolome de las Casas -- The last judgment -- The king must pay -- It is not proper that this book be published : a royal cedula of Philip II.

The genesis of the chicanos. The journals of Nunez Cabeza de Vaca -- The thoughts that clothe the soul of a European -- Our countrymen, these slave catchers -- From the edge of the mountains to the stones and sand in the rivers, the proclamation of Don Juan de Onate -- The vow of poverty / Father Jeronimo de Zarate Salmeron -- Sonora is our motherland / Arnold R. Rojas -- The simple pastoral life (Texas) / Americo Paredes -- The vaquero / Arnold R. Rojas -- The gold miners / Francisco Salazar -- The sheepherders / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca -- The campesinos / Raymond Barrio -- The braceros / Ernesto Galarza -- With the coming of the barbwire, came hunger : folk-lore of the Texas-Mexican vaquero / Jovita Gonzales -- Los caballeros de labor y los gorras blancas / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca.

The Gods of war : death to the gringos! The invasions of this modern Rome / Jose Maria Tornel y Mendivil -- To the Texas colonists "Mexican" is an execrable word -- After we took them to our bosom, they destroyed us -- The fall of the Alamo / General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana -- What child will not shed abundant tears at the tomb of his parents / Governor Juan Bautista Vigil -- The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Article VIII : rights of Mexicans established in territories ceded to United States -- The betrayal -- California is lost! / El clamor publico -- They have no voice / Don Pablo de la Guerra -- The guerrilla wars -- I will not submit / Joaquin Murieta -- Joaquin Murrieta / Arnold R. Rojas -- Love secrets of Joaquin Murieta, from an old newspaper -- Suffer the death of martyrs, Proclamation of Juan Nepomuceno Cortina -- Revolutionaries are also sons of God / General Francisco Villa -- Viva la revolucion : we are heading toward life / Ricardo Flores Magon.

The migrations. The roots of migration / Ernesto Galarza -- Corridos : the songs of exodus -- An emigrant's farewell -- El coyotito -- Deported -- La cucaracha -- As loyal citizens of the United States -- El arrimado : the guest in the land of buy now, pay later / Antonio Gomez.

In the barrios. Life in the barrios -- On the road to Texas : Pete Fonesca / Tomas Rivera -- Tucson, Arizona : el hoyo / Mario Suarez -- Tucson, Arizona : las comadres / Mario Suarez -- East Los Angeles : passing time / J.L. Navarro -- Los Angeles : the sacred spot / Javier Alva -- The vatos -- The story of a vato -- You are lower than animals -- Justice in the Southwest, report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights -- The caste system of employment, report of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission -- Manana is too late : labor standards / Maclovio R. Barraza.

La causa : in the beginning. The plan of Delano -- Huelga! : the history of the National Farm Workers Association -- Why Delano? / Cesar Chavez -- Nothing has changed : an interview with Cesar Chavez -- El malcriado : the voice of the farm worker -- The dignity of the farm worker -- What is a movement? -- Walkout in Albuquerque : the Chicano movement becomes nationwide -- Venceremos! : Mexican-American statement on travel to Cuba / Luis Valdez and Roberto Rubalcava -- We demand : statement of Chicanos of the Southwest in the Poor People's Campaign / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales -- La Raza Unida / Jorge Lara-Braud.

La causa : la tierra (the earth). Mother of all life : the earth / Cleofas Vigil -- The land grants / Clark S. Knowlton -- My cow, she was almost arrested / Tobia Leyba -- The alianza : a hope and a dream / Father Robert G. Garcia -- Our time has come -- La cooperativa / Valentina Valdez Tijerina -- Our allegiance is to the land / Alex Mercure.

La causa : la mujer (the woman). The act of love, from the Aztec Codices. Do not throw yourself upon women ; Must we live weeping? : a father's advice to his daughter -- The pioneer women / Fabiola Cabeza de Baca -- Songs of sorrows -- El abandonado -- La firolera -- El sombrero ancho -- Madre -- La jefita / Jose Montoya -- Cruz / Augustin Lira -- The new Chicana -- The women of La Raza / Enriqueta Longauez y Vasquez -- La madre de Aztlan / Mary Lou Espinosa.

La causa : the Chicanos. The emergence of the new Chicano / Guillermo Fuenfrios -- El grito / Guadalupe de Saavedra -- Education and de-education -- The writing on the blackboard / students of Los Angeles -- The word was made flesh : Spanish in the classroom / Sabine R. Ulibarri -- The Mexican American child : how have we failed him?, from a report of the U.S. Office of Education -- The blow outs!, from the Chicano student news -- The Chicano movement : a new breed -- The brown berets -- La Junta -- Los comancheros del norte : for machos only -- The Chicano movement : a controversy -- Reverse racism / Congressman Henry Gonzales -- The youth will be heard / Carta editorial -- Voices of the Chicanos -- Aztec angel / Luis Omar Salinas -- Musica de machete / Benjamin Luna -- 22 miles / Jose Angel Guitierrez -- Jail flashes / Roberto Vargas -- Segundo canto / Roberto Vargas -- Poem in lieu of preface / Alberto Alurista -- El Louie / Jose Montoya -- To a dead lowrider / J.L. Navarro -- A trip through the mind jail / Raul Salinas.

La causa : The artist. The Toltec (The artist) : he makes things live, from the Aztec Codices. The good painter ; He who gives life to clay ; He is whole -- The art of the Chicano movement, and the movement of Chicano art / Manuel J. Martinez -- Chicano theater / Luis Valdez -- Notes on Chicano theater -- El teatro campesino -- Bernabe, a play / Luis Valdez -- Notes of the playwright -- Bernabe : a drama of modern Chicano -- Mythology (scene 3).

La causa : God and church. The destruction of the Aztec temples : I overturned the idols / Hernando Cortez -- God and man -- Sayings of Patrocino Barela -- I believe in God. But not in priests / Cleofas Vigil -- God is beside you in the picket line, from the writings of Cesar Chavez -- Peregrinacion, penitencia, revolucion -- To be a man is to suffer for others : God help us to be men! -- The church and the Chicanos -- The church and La Raza -- Campo cultural de La Raza / Alberto Alurista -- Catolicos por La Raza -- Jesus Christ as a revolutionist / Delores del Grito -- The new Christ, poems ; The organizer ; A new cross / Abelardo Delgado.

Aztlan. The children of the Aztec : the vision of Motecuhzoma -- El plan espiritual de Aztlan : Chicano Liberation Youth Conference.
Additional Physical Form available Note:: Also issued online.