A Spanish-speaking Californian struggles for self-illumination during the Depression Era

A young Mexican-American struggles to achieve adulthood as a youth influenced by two conflicting worlds.

Fictionalized account of a Mexican family's experiences in the United States.

This book blends biography, history, and literary criticism in its analysis of Pocho (1959), José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative and semi-autobiographical no

A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figur