Bilingual Review articles from September 2004

Bilingual Review archives from September 2004

Bilingualism, Biculturalism, and the Cisco Kid Cycle
September 1, 2004... The Cisco Kid was born over 100 years ago in 1907 from the pen of the genial and bilious author O. Henry (William Sydney Porter, 1862-1910). He is still going strong both in film and television. Before 1913, the year when films became long...

Eating Your (Spanish) Words: The English Only Restaurant by Silvio Martinez Palau
September 1, 2004... The English Only Restaurant was published in New York in 1990, during the resurgence of nativist sentiment in the United States, a national phenomenon that some sociologists consider to be "a backlash against legislative and judicial tolerance...

A Nest from the Bones of the Dead: Challenging the Mourning and Melancholia Dichotomy in Irene Vilar's the Ladies' Gallery
September 1, 2004... Death haunts The Ladies' Gallery, Irene Vilar's 1996 memoir. It begins with a recounting of three suicidal gestures. The memoirist's grandmother, Lolita Lebron, enters the House of Representatives in 1954, ascends to its ladies' gallery, and,...

Un Punto De Vista Diferente: Entrevista a Lourdes Vazquez
September 1, 2004... Lourdes Vazquez ha sido reconocida como una de las mejores escritoras de Puerto Rico; sin embargo, su obra ha sido distinguida tambien por la critica literaria en Europa, Latinoamerica y Estados Unidos. Residente de Nueva York, la escritora...

The Fight for the Orchards West
September 1, 2004... Growing up, watching old movies with my grandfather, I was convinced I would end up in the West. The life! Where good and evil are so black and white and treachery is daily business; the vast lands and the desire for that extra dollar to get by,...

The Magical Babalu
September 1, 2004... Edmundo Serrano was a gentleman, a doer of good deeds who was always looking for the opportunity to do another one. He was, for the most part, satisfied with life, and had learned to cope with its ups and downs, sad and happy moments,...

Mas.(Poem)
September 1, 2004... Mas Soy pajaro serpiente en el mar. Soy piedra que contiene emocion. Soy sueno y me gusta despertar. Soy lagrima que da la bendicion. Soy dueno de la libertad en mi. Soy arbol que ha crecido sin raiz. Me...

Debunking Mexican American Apartheid: A Long, Dark Silence of Law, a Brief Shining Moment of Justice
September 1, 2004... Michael A. Olivas, ed., "Colored Men" and "Hombres Aqui": Hernandez v. Texas and the Rise of Mexican American Lawyering. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2006. Sometimes an event comes to official societal attention like a bolt out of the blue...

Materials Received
September 1, 2004... Scholarship and Research David T. Abalos, Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political. Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 352 pp., paperback, $30.00. Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis, No One Is Illegal....