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Caballero: A Historical Novel

Author:  Jovita González

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Jovita González and Eve Raleigh's Caballero:  A Historical Novel, a milestone in Mexican-American and Texas literature written during the 1930s and 1940s, centers on a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican landowner and his family living in the heart of southern Texas during a time of tumultuous change.

After covering the American military occupation of South Texas, the story involves the reader in romances between two young lovers from opposing sides during the military conflict of the U.S.-Mexico War.  Caballero's young protagonists fall in love but face struggles with race, class, gender, and sexual contradictions.

An introduction by José E. Limón, epilogue by María Cotera, and foreword by Thomas H. Kreneck offer a clear picture of the importance of the work to the study of Mexican-American and Texas history and to the feminist critique of culture.  This work, long lost in a collection of private papers and unavailable until now, serves as a literary ethnography of South Texas-Mexican folklore customs and traditions.

Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Author:  F. Arturo Rosales

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Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is the most comprehensive account of the arduous struggle by Mexican Americans to secure and protect their civil rights.  It is also a companion volume to the critically acclaimed four-part documentary series of the same title, which is now available on video following its national airing on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  Both this published volume and the video series are a testament to the Mexican American community's hard-fought battle for social and legal equality as well as political and cultural identity.

Since the United States-Mexico War, 1846-1848, Mexican Americans have strived to achieve full rights as citizens.  From peaceful resistance and violent demonstrations, when their rights were ignored or abused, to the establishment of support organizations to carry on the struggle and the formation of labor unions to provide a united voice, the movement grew in strength and in numbers.  However, it was during the 1960s and 1970s that the campaign exploded into a nationwide groundswell of Mexican Americans laying claim, once and for all, to their civil rights and asserting their cultural heritage.  They took a name that had been used disparagingly against them for years -- Chicano -- and fashioned it into a battle cry, a term of pride, affirmation and struggle.

Aimed at a broad general audience as well as college and high school students, Chicano! focuses on four themes -- land, labor, educational reform and government.  With solid research, accessible language and historical photographs, this volume highlights individuals, issues and pivotal developments that culminated in and comprised a landmark period for the second largest ethnic minority in the United States.  Chicano! is a compelling monument to the individuals and events that transformed a society.

A Chicano Manual on How to Handle Gringos

Author:   José Angel Gutiérrez

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Conflicts of Interest The letters of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton

Author:  Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton

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Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered California nineteenth-century novelist, struggled against the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Latinos in the southwestern territories of the United States.  Not only was she the first Latina novelist to write in English, but her circumstances, ambition and resolve took her into circles where relatively few women could venture.

Conflicts of Interest captures the complex terrain within which Ruiz de Burton moved, pulled indifferent directions as she was by tensions of class, race, gender, and nationality.  The trajectory of Ruiz de Burton's life, as viewed through her correspondence, makes for a compelling and revealing narrative, one that brings to life the conflictive evolution of discourse and culture in the Southwest as it was becoming integrated into the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

The Conquest of New Spain

Author:  Bernal Diaz

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Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered California nineteenth-century novelist, struggled against the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Latinos in the southwestern territories of the United States.  Not only was she the first Latina novelist to write in English, but her circumstances, ambition and resolve took her into circles where relatively few women could venture.

Conflicts of Interest captures the complex terrain within which Ruiz de Burton moved, pulled indifferent directions as she was by tensions of class, race, gender, and nationality.  The trajectory of Ruiz de Burton's life, as viewed through her correspondence, makes for a compelling and revealing narrative, one that brings to life the conflictive evolution of discourse and culture in the Southwest as it was becoming integrated into the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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