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Tables of Contents for The Latino Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: An American Literary Tradition
xi
10
Editors' Note
xxi
Part I Encounters
1
62
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
4
13
The Account [1542/1555]
5
12
Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega
17
5
Florida [1605]
18
4
Gaspar Perez de Villagra
22
11
The History of New Mexico [1610]
23
10
Fray Mathias Saenz de San Antonio
33
9
Lord, If the Shepherd Does Not Hear [1724]
34
8
Unknown Author
42
14
The Comanches [ca. 1780]
43
13
Francisco Palou
56
7
The Historic Account of the Life and Apostolic Work of the Venerable Fray Junipero Serra [1787]
57
6
Part II Prelude
63
74
Jose Maria Heredia
66
5
Niagara [1824]
67
4
Eulalia Perez
71
9
An Old Woman Remembers [1877]
72
8
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
80
18
The Squatter and the Don [1885]
81
17
Jose Marti
98
10
A Vindication of Cuba [1889]
99
6
Simple Verses [1891]
105
3
Pachin Marin
108
6
New York from Within [1892]
108
4
In the Album of an Unknown Woman [1892]
112
1
Improvisation [1892]
113
1
Eusebio Chacon
114
18
The Son of the Storm [1892]
114
18
Unknown Author
132
5
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez [ca. 1901]
133
4
Part III Latino United States
137
362
Leonor Villegas de Magnon
141
14
The Rebel [ca. 1920]
142
13
William Carlos Williams
155
4
To Elsie [1923]
156
2
All the Fancy Things [1927]
158
1
Arthur A. Schomburg
159
6
Jose Campeche, 1752-1809 [1934]
160
5
Bernardo Vega
165
8
Memoirs of Bernardo Vega [ca. 1944]
166
7
Josephina Niggli
173
28
Mexican Village [1945]
174
27
Mario Suarez
201
7
Cuco Goes to a Party [1947]
202
6
Julia de Burgos
208
3
Returning [1947]
209
1
Farewell in Welfare Island [1953]
210
1
Cleofas Jaramillo
211
9
Romance of a Little Village Girl [1955]
212
8
Pedro Juan Soto
220
16
God in Harlem [1956]
221
15
Jose Antonio Villarreal
236
12
Pocho [1959]
237
11
Americo Paredes
248
5
The Hammon and the Beans [1963]
248
5
John Rechy
253
12
City of Night [1963]
254
11
Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales
265
14
I Am Joaquin [1967]
266
13
Piri Thomas
279
6
Down These Mean Streets [1967]
280
5
Victor Hernandez Cruz
285
2
Today Is a Day of Great Joy [1969]
286
1
African Things [1973]
287
1
Alurista
287
3
el maguey en su desierto [1971]
288
1
must be the season of the witch [1971]
289
1
to be fathers once again [1971]
289
1
Tomas Rivera
290
5
...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him [1971]
291
4
Rudolfo Anaya
295
12
Bless Me, Ultima [1972]
296
11
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta
307
10
The Revolt of the Cockroach People [1973]
308
9
Nicholasa Mohr
317
11
Nilda [1973]
318
10
Pedro Pietri
328
9
Puerto Rican Obituary [1973]
329
8
Miguel Pinero
337
14
Short Eyes [1974]
338
11
A Lower East Side Poem [1980]
349
2
Dolores Prida
351
13
Beautiful Senoritas [1977]
352
12
Luis Valdez
364
14
Zoot Suit [1978]
365
13
Tato Laviera
378
4
My Graduation Speech [1979]
379
1
AmeRican [1985]
380
2
Sandra Maria Esteves
382
3
From the Commonwealth [1979]
383
1
A la Mujer Borrinquena [1980]
384
1
Lourdes Casal
385
2
For Ana Veldford [1981]
385
2
Lorna Dee Cervantes
387
4
Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War Between the Races [1981]
387
2
Visions of Mexico While at a Writing Symposium in Port Townsend, Washington [1981]
389
2
Richard Rodriguez
391
14
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez [1982]
392
13
Edward Rivera
405
20
Family Installments: Memories of Growing Up Hispanic [1982]
406
19
Cherrie Moraga
425
7
A Long Line of Vendidas [1983]
426
5
Loving in the War Years [1983]
431
1
Helena Maria Viramontes
432
6
The Moths [1985]
433
5
Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales
438
2
Ending Poem [1986]
438
2
Rolando Hinojosa
440
4
Dona Sostenes [1987]
441
3
Gloria Anzaldua
444
13
Borderlands/La frontera: The New Mestiza [1987]
445
12
Sandra Cisneros
457
11
Woman Hollering Creek [1991]
457
11
Cristina Garcia
468
11
Dreaming in Cuban [1992]
469
10
Judith Ortiz Cofer
479
9
American History [1993]
479
8
Guard Duty [1993]
487
1
Oscar Hijuelos
488
11
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien [1993]
489
10
Selected Additional Reading
499
4
About the Editors
503