Startled, you pull away from the hand that wakens you. Overhead your image balloons and stretches in the reflector of the operating light, merging into the gurney bed where you lie, into cabinets full of …
Thursday, June 28
A visitor came to town a few weeks back and, as will many, he put up in a local hotel. It is called the Shaw Hotel and it leans up next to God’s House, the …
Thursday, June 21
Baca says that Mexican-Americans have been “colonized,” severed from their culture, and dominated by a class that profits from them. Yet Baca himself doesn’t seem much damaged by this colonization, not outwardly at least.
Thursday, June 14
The meeting was going fine, until someone said “beaner.” Aristeo and friends left the meeting. “When an American calls us beaner, that goes for every Mexican. So when our hatred comes out, it goes for every American. ”
Thursday, June 7
I wondered if the professor was just a good storyteller. Deborah Szekely: “The spirit of what he says is true, but in that book many of the people’s names aren’t even correct.”
“I’ve just received notice this morning that we’re now the sixth largest chapter in the country; we just overtook Philadelphia. Some people say it’s easy to overtake Philadelphia, but it took us a long time.”