Foreword
Introduction
A SENSE OF PLACE
from The Account / Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Canto III / Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá
from Memorial / Gonzalo Solís de Merás
from The Memoirs of Bernardo Vega / Bernardo Vega
Our America / José Martí
THE ORAL TRADITION
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez / Américo Paredes
Indigenous Profile / María Cadilla de Martínez
The Prize of Freedom / Lydia Cabrera
Corridos / María Herrera-Sobek
La Llorona / Anonymous
THE VALUE OF FAMILY
familia / Tato Laviera
Progress Report for a Dead Father
To My Father / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Black & White Photo / Pedro Pietri
Dear Tía / Carolina Hospital
The Moths / Helena María Viramontes
INNOCENCE IS A CHILD
from Bless Me, Ultima / Rudolfo A. Anaya
The Indian Ruins / José Martí
Tales Told Under the Mango Tree / Judith Ortiz Cofer
My Name / Sandra Cisneros
The Night Before Christmas / Tomás Rivera
COMING OF AGE
Doubt / José Gautier Benítez
A Perfect Hotspot / Virgil Suárez
An Awakening ... Summer 1956 / Nicholasa Mohr
from The Greatest Performance / Elías Miguel Muñoz
night vigil / Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
LOVE AND ROMANCE
from Dear Rafe / Rolando Hinojosa
A Romeo and Juliet Story in Early New Mexico / Fray Angélico Chávez
Transference / Sandra María Esteves
Eva and Daniel / Tomás Rivera
First Love / Gary Soto
STANGERS AT HOME
from Nilda / Nicholas Mohr
Sun Images / Estela Portillo-Trambley
from A Stranger in One's Land / Rubén Salazar
Bitter Sugar: Why Puerto Ricans Leave Home / Jesús Colón
MIGRANTS AND EXILES
For the Color of My Mother / Cherríe Moraga
from Our House in the Last World / Oscar Hijuelos
Thoughts on a Sunday Afternoon / Joan Báez
Borinkis in Hawaii / Victor Hernández Cruz
EMPOWERING THE PEOPLE
Nuyorican Lament / Gloria Vando
Los Vendidos / Luis Valdez
Murrieta on the Hill / Sergio Elizondo
Arise, Chicano / Angela de Hoyos
I Am Joaquín / Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales
DEFINING WOMANHOOD, ASSUMING MANHOOD
Filomena / Roberta Fernández
Shooting Stars / Denise Chávez
A Thanksgiving Celebration (Amy) / Nicholasa Mohr
To Be a Man / Gary Soto
Women Are Not roses / Ana Castillo
The Goat Incident / Virgil Suárez
CONSTRUCTING THE SELF
Seeing Snow
Dedication / Gustavo Peréz Firmat
To Free Cuba / Evangelina Cossío y Cisneros
The Angel Juan Moncho / Ed Vega
from Becky and Her Friends / Rolando Hinojosa
Amigo Brothers / Piri Thomas
THE COSMIC RACE
La Doctora Barr / Mary Helen Ponce
San Antonio phantasmagoria
Barrios of the world
Latinos / Ricardo Sánchez
A Child to Be Born / Alberto Urista (Alurista)
puerto rican / Tato Laviera
My Race / José Martí.