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Selected Readings
Arte Publico Press
June 2001
On Sale: June 1, 2001
264 pages
ISBN: 1558853316
EAN: 9781558853317
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Fiction Poetry
One of the most famous leaders of the Chicano civil rights
movement, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales was a multifaceted and
charismatic, bigger-than-life hero who inspired his
followers not only by taking direct political action but
also by making eloquent speeches, writing incisive essays,
and creating the kind of socially engaged poetry and drama
that could be communicated easily through the barrios of
Aztlán, populated by Chicanos in the United States. Gonzales is the author of I Am Joaquín, an epic poem of the
Chicano movement that lives on in film, sound recording, and
hundreds of anthologies. Gonzales and other Chicanos
established the Crusade for Justice, a Denver-based civil
rights organization, school, and community center, in 1966.
The school, La Escuela Tlatelolco, lives on today some three
decades after its founding. In Message to Aztlán, Dr. Antonio Esquibel, Professor
Emeritus of Metropolitan State College of Denver, has
compiled the first collection of Gonzales' diverse writings:
the original I Am Joaquín (1967), along with a new Spanish
translation, seven major speeches (1968-78); two plays, The
Revolutionist and A Cross for Malcovio (1966-67); various
poems written during the 1970s and a selection of letters.
Published as part of of Arte Público Press' Hispanic Civil
Rights Series, these varied works demonstrate the evolution
of Gonzales' thought on human and civil rights. Any
examination of the Chicano movement is incomplete without
this volume. More than 35 photographs accompany the text.
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