Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago Ian Heywood prisoners able to read and

prisoners able to read and write letters are shown to retain and develop their individuality and humanity as their letters become poems and stories

It discusses major issues such as market barriers

such as the different approaches to testifying

as well as the material conditions in which different Latina/o groups build meaningful communities both within and across national affiliations

Terry Hamburg explores how an "instant city" heritage bred that momentous decision

Bringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago Ian Heywood prisoners able to read andBringing Aztlan to Mexican Chicago is the autobiography of Jose Gamaliel Gonzalez, an impassioned artist willing to risk all for the empowerment of his marginalized and oppressed community. Through recollections emerging in a series of interviews conducted over a period of six years by his friend Marc Zimmerman, Gonzalez looks back on his life and his role in developing Mexican, Chicano, and Latino art as a fundamental dimension of the city he came to