Product Description: Antonio Cuitla has a date with destiny. But it is not the showdown the once-fierce revolutionary expects. Is Antonio's battle with a would-be assassin or with Death itself? This novel of unyielding suspense and psychological conflict is a page-turner that defies the reader to put it down...read more

Product Description: The folksongs of Texas's Mexican population pulsate with the lives of folk heroes, gringos, smugglers, generals, jailbirds, and beautiful women. In his cancionero, or songbook, Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these songs in bilingual text—along with their music, notes on tempo and performance, and discography...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In an illustrious career spanning over forty years, Américo Paredes has often set the standard for scholarship and writing in folklore and Chicano studies. In folklore, he has been in the vanguard of important theoretical and methodological movements...read more

Product Description: The culture conflict that dominated the border region during the time of Texas' transition from Mexican political status and culture to that of the United States is the dominant inspiration for these stories.

Product Description: folklore by Hispanics about Anglo-Americans

A collection of works by the Chicano folklorist and novelist written in the 1930's and 1940's

A young Mexican American witnesses the guerilla warfare, banditry, land grabs, and abuses of Texas Rangers that were typical of the Texas-Mexico border during the 1930's

Product Description: Collection of essays by top Chicano educators.

Traces the life of Gregorio Cortez Lira, a Mexican ranchhand who became the hero of a popular ballad after a shootout with a Texas sheriff, and describes various versions of the ballad (view table of contents)