Author: JulioSueco
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On Reies Lopez Tijerina & Reuters
I often find it amazing how America Gringa refuses to acknowledge some of its own history, twist it and bedmake it to sleep with the Other in its own house.…
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That Pocho thang again
I am ocassionally given to the reading of books which I, more often than not, peruse more than finish when the need arises to let time pass by in an…
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unscathed and alive
The sad truth is that I might be the only one advocating Aztlán in Tijuana, but like in the movie, if you call them they will come. You think there…
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The fattning of the spiders
Dear diary, as the clouds perform their daily trek due south, due north at the whims of the winds, I strike the metal to the logs making a damp thump…
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On Being Pancho Villa
Ok, am’onna be real frank with’ya pancho. I ain’t got balls at all. Yeap, am a dinky mouse, a chicken shit and if am telling you this now, however that…
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Two concerned Aztlán citizens
Yonderliesit.org received two rather interesting emails from two concerned Aztlán citizens just a little less than what it took you to read this. On the one hand, one email writer,…
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Viva Chicano Lit
The Republic of East L.A. – Stories (2002) by Luis J. Rodriguez I am invariably always surprised at the ease with which I can understand Chicano literature. I can see…
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Tijuana, Tercera Nacion
I consider myself a Xicano, with an x mind you. A Xicano from Tijuana or a Xicano mexicano as I see it in order to disntinguish myself from my brethen…
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wachatelas ese
The phoneme /w/ [a voiced labio-velar approximant, lip rounding] has multiple and productive sounds in the spanglish and espanglish Xicano community. For us there are choices to be made between:…
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What they said
These days I find myself deeply fond of XX century thinking. From Volume IV Number IV The New Criterion A Quarterly Review October 1926 New York Chronicle: Gilbert Seldes There…
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When memories stop by for coffee
I came to my ancestors land yet just as I saw Aztlan you hovered over my every concious moment, (even in my sleep at times) making sure I knew who…
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En el otro lado
I went to the beach in Tijuana. It was crowded on Sunday, it was sizzling hot. So yeah, there are we, strolling, me and my friend. So I tell him,…