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Aztlan and Viet Nam Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War

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ISBN-10: 0520214056

ISBN-13: 9780520214057

Edition: 1999

Authors: George Mariscal

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Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, Aztlaacute;n and Viet Nam is the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. The words are startlingly frank, moving, and immensely powerful, as they call to our attention an important and neglected part of U.S. history. Gathered from many little-known sources, the works reflect both the soldiers' experience and the antiwar movement at home. Taken together, they illustrate the contradictions faced by the traditionally patriotic Mexican American community, and show us the war and the grassroots opposition to it from a new perspective--one that goes beyond the familiar dichotomy of black…    
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Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 337
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Aztlan and Viet Nam
Standing at the Wall
Introduction
"Corrido del padre de un soldado"
"My Uncle Sam" and "Sea of Freedom"
"Las cartas de Martin Flores"
"Dragon Mountain"
from The Oddsplayer
"Lonely Vietnam"
from Interrogations
"Somewhere Outside Duc Pho"
from Shifting Loyalties
from A Mexican in Vietnam
from Medal of Honor: A Vietnam Warrior's Story
from Chained Eagle
"Unfinished Letter to Terry"
"En memoria de Arturo Tijerina" and "Get It On"
from "History of a Chicano Vietnam Veteran"
from Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam
from Dogs from Illusion
"Party on the Mountain"
from "The Tortilla Mission"
"Dos Recuerdos"
"I Just Got Back from Vietnam, Baby"
"El entierro"
"Death in Vietnam"
from Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
"Untitled"
"La siembra," and from "Los Corts"
"'Too many targets, too high a body count'"
Raza si, guerra no!
Introduction
"Viet Nam Veteran"
"Speech Refusing Induction"
"Corrido de la guerra"
"Rocket Flight"
"Little Girls"
"Hearts on Fire" and "Heroes"
"The Summer of Vietnam"
"My Cousin Ralph"
from "Pensamiento serpentino"
"Cinco poemas"
"Blessed Amerika"
"Juan Carlos Gonzalez"
"Poema"
"A Question Every Chicano Should Ask"
"Carnal in Vietnam"
"Vietnam: Gabacho's War"
"La hora de todos"
"Chicano Moratorium, December 20, 1969"
"La nina Lina en East Los Angeles"
"Chicano Is an Act of Defiance"
"Eulogy for Ruben Salazar"
"Overkill at the Silver Dollar"
"A Walk in the Sun"
"Chicano Moratorium"
"Song to a Thousand Faces/My People in the Streets"
"Due Process of Law"
from Assault with a Deadly Weapon
from Always Running: La vida loca, Gang Days in L.A.
from Delia's Song
"Young Chicano's Death Described" (on Moratorium of January 30, 1971)
"The Vietnam Wall"
"America's Wailing Wall"
"Enemy Way"
"Chale Guerra"
"A time to raise questions"
Epilogue: Treinta anos despues (Thirty years later)
Notes
Sources