Aztlan: an anthology of Mexican American literature / Edited by Luis Valdez and Stan Steiner. - First edition. - xxxiv, 410 pages ; 19 cm. - A Marc Corporation book . - A Marc Corporation book. .

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.

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Mexican Americans--Literary collections.
Mexicans--Literary collections.--United States
Indians of Mexico--Literary collections.
Aztlán.

E184.M5 / A9 1972