"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...

The talented and beloved Mexican American singer's only authorized autobiography published posthumously after her death in a tragic plane crash in December 2012.

Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

A Mexican-American child talks about aspects of his Mexican heritage, including language, foods, and customs.

Maria tries on her mother's wedding ring while helping make tamales for a Christmas family get together, but panic ensues when hours later, she realizes the ring is missing.

Beto searches all day for something all his own to put on his grandmother's grave for the Day of the Dead.

When a seventeen-year-old Mexican American girl starts getting into trouble as a reaction to her parents' divorce, she is helped by a psychologist who has problems of her own.

This text brings together key writings in this newly-emerging field. Articles embrace a broad range of writing on culture including TV, film, art, music, dance, theatre and literature, capturing the shifting terrain of Chicana/o cultural studies.