Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / How the following day they brought other sick people -- Jovita González / The bullet-swallower -- Sabine R. Ulibarrí / My grandma smoked cigars -- Mario Suárez / Maestría -- Américo Paredes / The Country -- Rubén Salazar / La nacha sells dirty dope ... -- John Rechy / From city of night -- Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez / "I am Joaquín" -- alurista / fértil polvo ; What now ... corn -- Luis Valdez / Las dos caras del patroncito ; Los Vendidos -- José Montoya / El Louie -- Ricardo Sánchez / Soledad was a girl's name ; Say, tush-hog convict -- Angela de Hoyos / Go ahead, ask her ; You will grow old -- Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado / Stupid America ; The Chicano Manifesto -- Ernesto Galarza / The Barrio -- Oscar "Zeta" Acosta / From the revolt of the cockroach people -- Tomás Rivera / La noche buena -- Rolando Hinojosa / The people of Belken County -- Rudolfo Anaya / from Bless me, Ultima -- Ron Arias / from The toad to Tamazunchale -- Tino Villanueva / Scene from the Movie GIANT; I Too Have Walked My Barrio Streets -- Carmen Tafolla / Tía Sofía ; Curandera -- Gary Soto / The elements of San Joaquin ; Where were you when you first heard of air-conditioning? -- Juan Felipe Herrera / Exiles ; Inside the jacket -- Richard Rodriguez / Complexion -- Lorna Dee Cervantes / Poem for the young white man who asked me how I, an intelligent, well-read person could believe in the war between races ; A Chicano poem -- Jimmy Santiago Baca / Immigrants in our own land ; I will remain -- Alberto Álvaro Ríos / True story of the pins ; Old man on the hospital porch -- Gloria Anzaldúa / Towards a new consciousness -- Cherríe Moraga / La Güera -- Ana Castillo / Saturdays ; A marriage of mutes -- Sandra Cisneros / Woman hollering creek -- Denise Chávez / ¡Híjole! in the darkness -- Pat Mora / Elena ; Now and then, America -- Helena María Viramontes / Neighbors -- The Hernandez Brothers (Mario, Gilbert, Jaime) / Chiro el Indio -- Dagoberto Gilb / Maria de Covina -- Luis J. Rodríguez / Tía Chucha ; Always running -- Demetria Martínez / from Mother tongue -- Benjamín Alire Sáenz / Sometimes the rain -- Guillermo Gómez-Peña / Real-life border thriller -- Rubén Martínez / The Line -- Luis Alberto Urrea / from The hummingbird's daughter -- Josefina López / act I from Real women have curves -- Lalo Alcaraz / from La cucaracha -- Michele Serros / Role model rule number 1: Never give up an opportunity to eat for free -- Lorraine López / Soy la Avon lady -- Christine Granados / The bride -- Gustavo Arellano / From ¡Ask a Mexican! -- Domingo Martinez / The Mimis.