mexican american families

Presents a collection of poems, in Spanish and English, celebrating family, community, and the power of imagination.

"In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home."--Provided by publisher.

The story of Soveida Dosamantes, a waitress who has worked for thirty years in a Mexican restaurant in the rural Southwest.

Chronicles the experiences of members of the extended Ch?vez family as they cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. and settle in California, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Arkansas.

A collection of short stories by Viola Canales which feature magical characters.

The Salcido family, immigrants to the United States from Mexico, struggle to reconcile their need for jobs at the mighty Nazareth steel mill in Southern California with the low pay, back-breaking labor, and harsh treatment they receive--a situation that weighs most heavily on twenty-year-old Johnny, a second-generation mill worker.

Presents life in a barrio in San Francisco, describing the school, recreation, holidays, and family life of an eight-year-old boy who lives there.

A collection of autobiographical stories about growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants in California and his family's perseverance and courage in the face of hunger, stress, and persecution.

Two young Mexican American migrant workers in California find hope in love, despite the poverty and social conditions in which they live.

Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given.