The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes
Selected Works of JOSE ANTONIO BURCIAGA
EDITED BY Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacon
The University of Arizona Press ® Tucson Contents
Acknowledgments xi Editors' Introduction / jAdelante! IJ
PART ONE: Cosas Linguistkas Essays Bilingualism Isn't Just for Hispanics, You Know (1980, San Jose Mercury) 2j An Anglicized Nightmare in Official English (1981, San Jose Mercury) 3° Chicano Terms of Endearment (1988, Weedee Peepo) 32 Por Quien Dobla la Campana—For Whom the Bell Tolls (1988, uncollected) j$ Pendejismo (1993, Drink Culturd) 39 What's in a Spanish Name? (1995, Spilling the Beans) 42 jAy Caramba! (1995, Spilling the Beans) 46 Bilingual Cognates (1995, Spilling the Beans) 49 Spanish Words in Anglo-American Literature: A Chicano Perspective (1996, Spanish Loanwords in the English Language) p
Poetry
Lo del Corazon (1986,1992, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado) 56 Modismos (1980,1992, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado) j8 Colors Have No Translations (date unknown, uncollected) 60
PART TWO: Cartoons 63
PART THREE: Las Fronteras of Culture Clash Essays
Living Astride the Line between Two Cultures Can Be Difficult (1980, Denver Post) 75 The First Thanksgiving (1988, Weedee Peepo) j8 An Anglo, Jewish, Mexican Christmas (1988, Weedee Peepo) 81 E.T. and Me (1988, Weedee Peepo) 84 The White Gospel (1991, uncollected) 8j Reasons to Celebrate El Cinco de Mayo (1993, Drink Culturd) 92 The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes (1993, Drink Culturd) 95 Pachucos and the Taxicab Brigade (1993, San Jose Weekly) 99 Quetzalcoatl (1993, Spilling the Beans) 107 One Who Knows Finds No Humor in Prejudice (date unknown, uncollected) 112 For Whites Only (1991, uncollected) 114 Chicano Art: A War That Was Never Won (date unknown, uncollected) uy viii CONTENTS Fiction
It's in the Mail (date unknown, uncollected) 120 La Puerta (1992, Mirrors beneath the Earth) 124
Poetry
Redwood City (1992, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado) 129 El Juan from Sanjo (1992, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado) 131 Sister Maria de la Natividad Burciaga Zapata (1992, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado) 133
PART FOUR: Virgin Variations i35
PART FIVE: Cooks and Comidas Essays
A Bohemian's Toast (1988, Weedee Peepo) I$I I Remember Masa (1988, Weedee Peepo) 134 T10 Pancho and the Margarita (1988, Weedee Peepo) 161 The Great Taco War (1993, Drink Culturd) 163 The Joy of Jalapefios (1993, Drink Culturd) I6J Spilling the Beans (1995, Spilling the Beans) ij2 In Defense of the Jalapeno and Other Chiles (1995, Spilling the Beans)
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Poetry
Litany for the Tomato (1992, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado) 180 Berta Crocker's Bicentennial Recipe (1992, UndocumentedLove/ Amor Indocumentado) 182 Skool Daze (1992, Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado) 183
Contents ix PART six: From His Sketch Pad 185
PART SEVEN: Friends i95
PART EIGHT: The Temple Gang (unpublished memoir)
Set'n the Scene: El Paso, Texas 203 Maria Guadalupe Fernandez 208 Rabbi Joseph M. Roth 212 The Day We Saw God 21J Birth of the Temple Gang 21J Work and Football 219 From Hebrew School to St. Patrick's School 224 Who Killed Jesus Christ? 22J Mexico, Loved and Surreal 229
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