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You Must Fight Them

A Novella and Stories

By: Maceo Montoya

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You Must Fight Them

A Novella and Stories

By: Maceo Montoya

In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826341993

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9780826341990

Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

A Novel

By: Maceo Montoya

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Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

A Novel

By: Maceo Montoya

Selected as one of the San Francisco Chronicles' 15 best books of 2021 From critically acclaimed author Maceo Montoya comes an inventive and adventurous satirical novel about a Mexican-American artist’s efforts to fulfill his vision: to paint masterful works of art. His plans include a move to Paris to join the ranks of his artistic hero, Gustave Courbet—except it’s 1943, and he’s stuck in the backwoods of New Mexico. Penniless and prone to epileptic fits, even his mother thinks he’s crazy. Ernie Lobato has just inherited his deceased uncle’s manuscript and drawings. At the urging of his colleague, an activist and history buff (Lorraine Rios), Ernie sends the materials to a professor of Chicanx literature (Dr. Samuel Pizarro). Throughout the novel, Dr. Pizarro shares his insights and comments on the uncle’s legacy in a series of annotations to his text and illustrations. As Ernie’s uncle battles a world that is unkind to “starving artists,” he runs into other tormented twentieth-century artists, writers, and activists with ambitions to match his own: a young itinerant preacher (Reies López Tijerina); the “greatest insane artist” (Martín Ramirez); and Oscar Zeta Acosta who is hellbent on self-destruction. Will the fortuitous encounters with these prophetic figures result in his own genius being recognized? Or will his uncompromising nature consign him to what he fears most? Told through a combination of words and images in the tradition of classic works such as Don Quixote and Alice in Wonderland, Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces features fifty-one vivid black-and-white pen drawings. This complex and engaging story also doubles as literary criticism, commenting on how outsiders’ stories fit into the larger context of the Chicanx literary canon. A unique and multilayered story that embraces both contradiction and possibility, it also sheds new light on the current state of Chicanx literature while, at the same time, contributing to it. Propulsive, humorous, and full of life, this candid novel will be loved not only by Beat fiction fans but by contemporary fiction lovers as well.

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415

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University of Nevada Press

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1647790018

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9781647790011

Sancho's Journal

Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets

By: David Montejano,Maceo Montoya

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Sancho's Journal

Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets

By: David Montejano,Maceo Montoya

How do people acquire political consciousness, and how does that consciousness transform their behavior? This question launched the scholarly career of David Montejano, whose masterful explorations of the Mexican American experience produced the award-winning books Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986, a sweeping outline of the changing relations between the two peoples, and Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981, a concentrated look at how a social movement “from below” began to sweep away the last vestiges of the segregated social-political order in San Antonio and South Texas. Now in Sancho’s Journal, Montejano revisits the experience that set him on his scholarly quest—“hanging out” as a participant-observer with the South Side Berets of San Antonio as the chapter formed in 1974. Sancho’s Journal presents a rich ethnography of daily life among the “batos locos” (crazy guys) as they joined the Brown Berets and became associated with the greater Chicano movement. Montejano describes the motivations that brought young men into the group and shows how they learned to link their individual troubles with the larger issues of social inequality and discrimination that the movement sought to redress. He also recounts his own journey as a scholar who came to realize that, before he could tell this street-level story, he had to understand the larger history of Mexican Americans and their struggle for a place in U.S. society. Sancho’s Journal completes that epic story.

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University of Texas Press

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029274384X

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9780292743847

Imaginative Possibilities

Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

By: Maceo Montoya,Javier O. Huerta

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Imaginative Possibilities

Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

By: Maceo Montoya,Javier O. Huerta

Two decades into the twenty-first century, contemporary Latinx writers have established themselves within an evolving literary tradition. Imaginative Possibilities collects interviews with some of these authors to explores the writers’ processes, aesthetics, creative trajectories, and places within the larger body of Latinx literature. The interviews address artistic, professional, and cultural issues including the building of intellectual communities, the writing and publication process, and the practical economics of making a living. US Latinx writers discuss how they navigate the overwhelmingly white publishing industry, the academic book market, higher education, and MFA culture while exploring questions of representation, hybridity, and mestizaje. Through these conversations, a truth emerges: Latinx literature speaks not with one voice, but many.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822991543

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9780822991540

The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

A Novel

By: Maceo Montoya

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The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

A Novel

By: Maceo Montoya

After Wopper Barraza's fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his deportation and now he has to move back to Michoacán. His story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored literary territory.

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University of New Mexico Press

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082635436X

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You Must Fight Them

A Novella and Stories

By: Maceo Montoya

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A Novella and Stories

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University of New Mexico Press

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9780826341990

Chicano Movement for Beginners

By: Maceo Montoya

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Chicano Movement for Beginners

By: Maceo Montoya

As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, The Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as "El Movimiento" that galvanized the Mexican American community, from laborers to student activists, giving them not only a political voice to combat prejudiceand inequality, but also a new sense of cultural awareness and ethnic pride. Beyond commemorating the past, The Chicano Movement For Beginners seeks to reaffirm the goals and spirit of the Chicano Movement for the simple reason that many of the critical issues Mexican American activists first brought to the nation's attention then#8212educational disadvantage, endemic poverty, political exclusion, and social bias#8212remain as pervasive as ever almost half a century later.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1939994640

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9781939994646

Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

A Novel

By: Maceo Montoya

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A Novel

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University of Nevada Press

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1647790018

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Chicano Movement For Beginners

By: Maceo Montoya

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Chicano Movement For Beginners

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As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as “El Movimiento” that galvanized the Mexican American community, from laborers to student activists, giving them not only a political voice to combat prejudice and inequality, but also a new sense of cultural awareness and ethnic pride. Beyond commemorating the past, Chicano Movement For Beginners seeks to reaffirm the goals and spirit of the Chicano Movement for the simple reason that many of the critical issues Mexican American activists first brought to the nation’s attention then—educational disadvantage, endemic poverty, political exclusion, and social bias—remain as pervasive as ever almost half a century later.

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1939994659

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The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

A Novel

By: Maceo Montoya

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The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

A Novel

By: Maceo Montoya

“A brilliant and innovative take on an issue close to the hearts and minds of families who have one foot planted firmly on both sides of the border. It is a deportation story in reverse: a bold re-envisioning with unexpected consequences, mystery, and insight.”—Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Mañana Means Heaven After Wopper Barraza’s fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his immediate deportation. “But I haven’t been there since I was a little kid,” says Wopper, whose parents brought him to California when he was three years old. Now he has to move back to Michoacán. When he learns that his longtime girlfriend is pregnant, the future looks even more uncertain. Wopper's story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. This immigrant saga in reverse is a story of young people who must live with the reality of their parents’ dream. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored literary territory.

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UNM Press

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0826354378

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9780826354372

Imaginative Possibilities

Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

By: Maceo Montoya,Javier O. Huerta

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Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822991543

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Book's by Maceo Montoya

You Must Fight Them

You Must Fight Them

Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

Sancho's Journal

Sancho's Journal

Imaginative Possibilities

Imaginative Possibilities

The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

You Must Fight Them

You Must Fight Them

Chicano Movement for Beginners

Chicano Movement for Beginners

Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces

Chicano Movement For Beginners

Chicano Movement For Beginners

The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

Imaginative Possibilities

Imaginative Possibilities

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