The Latino West
Volume 32, Number 3
March-April 2011
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Ricardo Gilb’s “Introduction to Focus: The Latino West”
Dagoberto Gilb’s “La Próxima Parada Is Next”
Yxta Maya Murray’s “The Draft of History”
David Dorado Romo’s “Los Del Olvido”
Josefina López’s “Real Stories”
Oscar Villalon reviews ed. Ilan Stavans’s The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature
Michael Jaime-Becerra reviews Gary Soto’s Black Hair
Sheryl Luna reviews Diana García’s When Living Was a Labor Camp
Hector Cantú reviews Gilbert Hernandez and Jaime Hernandez’s Love and Rockets: New Stories (no. 3)
Ricardo Gilb reviews Kelly Lytle Hernández’s Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Diana López reviews Bárbara Renaud Gonzalez’s Golondrina, why did you leave me?
Alex Espinoza reviews Gil Cuadros’s City of God and John Rechy’s City of Night
Christine Granados reviews Brando Skyhorse’s The Madonnas of Echo Park
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