Mamita admonishes her little boy to eat all his bread by telling him how the food is made, from the planting of the wheat seeds to the loaf of bread on the table, and sings him a Spanish song celebrating bread.
Ernesto believes he recognizes a suspect fleeing the scene of a recent robbery which is one of a string that have shaken the barrio but he is not completely sure.
Ambitious high school senior and honor student Efrain Rodriguez makes some questionable choices in pursuit of his dream to escape the South Bronx and attend an Ivy League college.
Presents a leading Hispanic journalist's radical new perspective on the intertwined heritage of America and Americans and how today's exploding Latino population in the United States is a direct result of our government's past policies toward Latin America.
Living in San Antonio, Texas, eleven-year-old Alma tries to cope with the drive-by shooting death of her favorite Latina singer, as well as deal with the struggles of her various family members, and finds herself doing something she knows is wrong.
Explores what it means to be Latino in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, examining the individual's response to Latino stereotypes and discussing how they can hold onto their cultural heritage.
Latino life in the United States = La vida Latina en los Estados Unidos
Olmos, Edward James
1999
A collection of color and black-and-white photographs that depict the lives of Latinos throughout the United States in the 1990s, accompanied by bilingual essays, poetry, and commentary.
