As a teenager, long before Enriqueta Vasquez became a writer and activist, she wrote her first letter to complain against the injustice she saw around her while growing up in the Southwest. Why was she, a Mexican American, not allowed to eat in local restaurants, while her brothers were fighting to preserve their countrys principles of freedom and democracy? Why were Mexican Americans good enough to fight and die for their country but not good enough to be treated as equals at home? And so began Enriqueta Vasquezs life-long fight for justice.
Enriqueta Vasquezs columns written during the peak of the civil rights movement provided a platform for her fierce but hopeful voice of protest. In her column, entitled ¡Despierten Hermanos! [Awaken, Brothers and Sisters!], she used both anger and humor in her efforts to stir her fellow Chicanos to action. Drawing upon her own experiences as a Chicana, she wrote about such issues as racism, sexism, imperialism, and poverty, issues that remain pressing today.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowlegements
- Viviendo y luchando: The Life and Times of Enriqueta Vasquez
- Land, Race, and Poverty
- Introduction. Lorena Oropeza
- Discrimination
- Los Pobres y Los Ricos
- This Land Is Our Land
- Racism
- “Communism,” Just A Word
- Welfare and Work
- More Abuses at Santa Fe Pinta
- Culture and History
- Introduction. Dionne Espinoza
- Teach True Values, Says La Raza Mother
- ’Tis the Season, Fa La La
- Let’s Be Seen and Heard
- 16 de septiembre
- The 16th of September
- La Santa Tierra
- La Voz de Nuestra Cultura I
- La Voz de Nuestra Cultura II
- La Historia del Mestizo
- Nation and Self-Determination
- Introduction. Dionne Espinoza
- Somos Aztlán!
- ¡Somos Aztlán!
- Our New Nation Is Born
- A New Political Party
- Education
- Land Banks
- Tijerina: National Hero
- Se Nace Nuestra Nación
- Un nuevo partido
- Educación
- Tijerina es un héroe
- Prisioneros políticos
- Let’s Take a Look at the Political System
- New Levels of Awareness
- Chicanas, Organize!
- Introduction. Dionne Espinoza
- La Chicana: Let’s Build a New Life
- The Woman of La Raza, Part I
- The Woman of La Raza, Part II
- Look at the Reform Schools
- Teach the Children to Question
- Let’s Talk to Each Other
- Chicana Resolution
- Resolution from Chicana Workshop
- ¡Soy Chicana Primero!
- National Chicana Conference, Houston
- Corporate Institutions and Industrial Society
- Introduction. Lorena Oropeza
- The Church Has Made Us Slaves
- Values Lost
- Apollo IX
- Smog and Money Politics
- The Church and the People
- Money, Money, Money
- The Atomic Age
- Railroads and Land
- International Politics
- Introduction. Lorena Oropeza
- Draft and Our Youth
- Tío Sam Says: “Gimme!”
- ¡Qué Linda Es Cuba!: Part I
- Raza, Nos Están Matando. They Are Killing Us, Did You Know?
- ¡Qué Linda Es Cuba!: Part II
- Kent State
- El Soldado Raso de Hoy
- El Soldado Raso Today
- Third World Women Meet
- Rethinking Cultural Nationalism and La Familia through Women’s Communities: Enriqueta Vasquez and Chicana Feminist Thought
- Chicanas within La Familia de La Raza
- Neegotiating “Separatism as Strategy”: Toward Women’sCommunities
- Coalition Politics and Third World Solidarity
- Conclusion
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