Drink Cultura

by Burciaga, Jose Antonio

• ISBN13: 9781877741074
• ISBN10: 1877741078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Consortium

Summary

This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures -- the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all.

Table of Contents

Chief Wachuseh	3	(6)
Con Safos	6	(3)
Pendejismo	9	(5)
The Joy of Jalapenos	14	(7)
The Great Taco War	21	(5)
A Mixed Tex-Cal Marriage	26	(4)
Dear Mr. Consulate	30	(6)
All the Things I Learned in School Weren't Necessarily True	36	(5)
La Cuetlaxochitl	41	(4)
Return to the Motherland	45	(11)
Passive Resistance	56	(6)
He Who Has Two Masters Disappoints One ... or Both	62	(5)
Reasons to Celebrate El Cinco de Mayo	67	(4)
Childhood, Imagination and the Art Process	71	(4)
Pinatas	75	(5)
Memories of a Juarez Nightlife	80	(7)
La Cate	87	(5)
The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes	92	(5)
Beggars and Pordioseros	97	(5)
Mando, La Luz and Esmelta	102	(6)
The Desert	108	(6)
My Ecumenical Father	114	(5)
Tiburcio Vasquez: A Chicano Perspective	119	(10)
Ernesto Galarza 1905-1984	129	(5)
First Chicano Actor Hired	134	(8)
Luis Valdez
A Magazine for the Dead	142