The adage that the poor make more resolute and compliable soldiers is verified when applied to Chicanos. As the personal accounts in Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam attest, Chicanos were often the easiest and most malleable resource the U.S. had for achieving its quota for combat soldiers. And to those ends, they were used generously. The personal accounts of these veterans, many of whom experienced the war viscerally and whose private reasons were myriad and expressed in this book with a severe authenticity, can be of service to all. They fought for reasons that were ill-defined, often confusing, but for the most part devoid of any cogent understanding of the political and economic forces at play which took them from labor fields in Corcoran, California, to rice paddies in Indochina. From their odyssey a great house of knowledge can be gained, a knowledge that was, unfortunately, purchased with blood.

Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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Information: 20 Years of Joda (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Montoya, José

Poetry

Cantos

Arteaga, Alfred

bilingual, "a personal anthology of poetry"

Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry (English, Spanish and Romany Edition)

Burciaga, José Antonio

Caring for a House

Martínez, Victor

Viet Nam war novel on the Chicano war experience

Dogs from Illusion

Trujillo, Charley

Chicana/O Studies Paradigms: A Journal of Alternative Voices

Education & Teaching

Jimenez, Randall

Schools & Teaching

Voices of Matatlan

Garcia, Felix

Travel with Art Rodriguez as he dreams of his past. He experiences an unpleasant childhood full of difficult obstacles that could have profoundly impaired his chance for a normal life. Life appears hopeless during those young years as he struggles to discover who he really is and at the same time contends with his dictatorial father. Travel with him as he takes you through the California Youth Authority, the prison system for young offenders. In this story, which brings laughter and tears, both young and old can find comfort in knowing that when life appears bleak and there seems to be no hope, events in life can change. In 1975 Art Rodriguez started a successful business in San Jose, the city in which he was born. Grow with him in his life and experience with him the hardships and successes of a new business.

East Side Dreams

Art Rodriguez

Memoirs

Provocaciones: Letters From the Prettiest Girl in Arvin is a collection of sensitive essays that depict the lives of a close knit Mexican family living the San Joaquin Valley and later in the San Fancisco Bay Area. These insightful, loving , guilt ridden, and at times very sad narratives,. They reveal the religious, moral, cultural, and ethical values of a young girl raised in the 1950s and 1960s in a Mexican Catholic working class home.

Provocaciones: Letters from the Prettiest Girl in Arvin

Castro, Rafaela G.

Community & Culture

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