Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     xiii
Before the 1930s
from Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition     3
Letter in his defense     8
Proclamation     11
"El corrido de Texas"     15
"El Huerfano" (San Antonio)     17
"La Elena" (El Paso)     20
"Jesus Cadena" (Chavela) (San Antonio)     23
"El Contrabando del Paso" (El Paso)     27
"Contrabandistas Tequileros" (Del Rio)     30
"Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" (Rio Grande Valley     34
"Capitan Charles Stevens" (Rio Grande Valley)     38
The 1930s
"La Pollita"     45
from "Rancho Buena Vista: Its Ways of Life and Traditions"     46
"Don Pedrito Jaramillo"     51
"False Blue" and "Discontent"     53
"Mi fracaso"     55
"La tisica"     56
"Dime si, si, si"     57
Photographs from the 1930s
Photographs   Gregorio Barrios Sr.     60
The 1940s
"Mal Camino"     83
"A Washington" and "Los Pachucos"     84
"El Gato Negro"     86
"Mucho me gusta mi novia"     88
Correspondence     89
"Ay Te Dejo en SanAntonio"     94
The 1950s
"The Devil on the Border"     99
"Los mexicanos que hablan ingles"     106
from With His Pistol in His Hand     108
"Desde Mexico he venido"     120
"La Nacha Sells Dirty Dope..."     122
"Before The Next Teardrop Falls"     126
"Mi Borrachera"     127
"El crudo"     128
The 1960s
"Saturday Belongs to the Palomia"     131
"El Paso del Norte"     136
"Cecilia Rosas"     146
"Talk To Me, Talk To Me"     157
"Soledad was a Girl's Name" and "Homing"     158
from The Making of a Chicano Militant     166
"El corrido de Jhonny el Pachuco"     172
"Stupid America" and "The Chicano Manifesto"     176
The 1970s
from The Three Wars of Roy Benavidez     183
"The Night Before Christmas"     193
"Scene from the Movie Giant' and "I Too Have Walked My Barrio Streets"     198
"A la guerra ya me llevan"     204
"Voces del barrio," "A Sunday in Klail," and "Es el agua"     205
"Que bonito es San Antonio"     212
"La Yonfantayn"     214
"Tragico Fin De Alfredo Gomez Carrasco"     225
"Talking to the Rio Grande" and "Space"     229
"Of Bronze the Sacrifice" and "Llevan Flores"     232
"La tumba de Villa"     236
"The Feeling Is Mutual" and "Go Ahead, Ask Her"     238
"Scars and Three Daughters" and "and when I dream dreams..."     240
"Bicentennial Blues" and "El Barrio Revisited"     246
"In Defense of the Jalapeno and Other Chiles"     250
"I Was Never A Militant Chicano" and "For Tigre"     253
"Entering Into the Serpent"     255
"Portal"     264
"Yo soy Chicano"     272
"Puro Rollo (primera parte)" and "I Am an Americano Too"     274
from The Devil in Texas     276
"Armadillo Charm" and "'Bout to Leave the Barrio"     282
"La Loma" and "A Walk Through the Campo Santo"     286
The 1980s
"Cuatro Caminos"     295
"Eladio Comes Home"     296
"La Casa" and "(There Has to be) Something More Than Everything"     304
"The Vogue"     308
from Migrant Souls     313
"Sancho"     322
"The Senora"     326
"Elena" and "Now and Then, America"     329
"Pruning the Family Tree, Grafts and All"     347
"por la calle Zarzamora" and "el mercado en San Antonio where the tourists trot"     351
"Como la flor"     354
"The Past" and "Pancho Villa Invites My Grandfather to the Revolution, Mexico, 1914"     356
"Literary Wetback"     360
"Las Marias"     363
"The Unchronicled Death of Your Holy Father" and "Fences"     365
The 1990s
"Intaglia"     373
"Wave"     376
"Halloween" and "Santa Maria"     377
"Casa Sanchez"     380
"El Cuervo"     389
"The Day of Whack"     395
"I&M Plumbing"     403
"Mexicano Antonio" and "On Language"     411
"Barbacoa Blues"     416
from Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation     417
"A Rock Trying to Be a Stone"     426
from Drift     434
from Barefoot Heart     443
The 2000s
"Compassion"     455
"All About My Mother"     456
"Once More to the River"     462
"Cave-Woman I," "Cave Woman II," and "Perfection"     468
from Sofia's Saints     473
"In the Year 1974"     482
"Laredo"     488
"Pecado"     490
"See Ya at the Pulga (What Did He Said?)"      498
"They Let Me Drive"     500
"One Family, Two Homelands"     506
"Ambition" and "Fence on the Border"     511
Permissions and acknowledgments     517