Chicano Lit Archive
Grapes and Crowbars: Undocumented Labor in Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus
The plot of Under the Feet of Jesus examines the oppression that a family of mixed status face working in an industry that at once depends on their labor and treats individual laborers as expendable.
“Are Mexican-American Writers Obligated To Write About Donald Trump?” A Brown Dude Explains
I’ve written exactly one thing on Donald Trump. One piece felt like enough at the time—Got him!—though as a Mexican-American writer, I find myself wondering how many ways one could/should write about the phenomenon that is the rise of Trump and contemporary populist American bigotry. I’ve wondered too is