[Review of] Sandra Maria Esteves, Yerba Buena

With this, her first anthology, the New York born Puerto Rican poet Sandra Maria Esteves should establish herself as the first lady among the Latin poets in that city. Esteves, thirty-three, whose poetry has appeared before in twenty magazines1 and who is an acknowledged painter, combines in her best work her own ghetto experience with nature symbolism, political, cultural and racial awareness and a determined woman\u27s perspective

[Review of] Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970

This first comprehensive history of the Jicarilla Apaches proves an indispensible [indispensable] tool for understanding this tribe, government and Indian relations, and the history of the state of New Mexico. Veronica Tiller was, despite being part of a prominent Jicarilla family, able to strike a balance between giving the reader a wealth of detailed facts pertaining to the tribe and its smaller organizational units and placing them within the larger context of government or New Mexico state policies. The author, who used an impressive number of government documents, is modest and clear sighted enough not to claim an Indian point of view for her work. She does an excellent job in revealing the importance of the two Jicarilla bands, the plains-dwelling Llaneros and the mountain-dwelling Olleros, whose differences in acculturation and social orientation have marked the complex history of the tribe through the centuries

Critique [of Fascism: A Review of Its History and Its Present Cultural Reality in the Americas]

Professor Forbes’ article represents a timely and important contribution. It should, if need be, serve as a means of raising the readers’ historical consciousnesses during a period in which dramatic changes in U.S. economic and social policies are under way, in a time when unabashed power politics seem to be imposed on half the globe by the ruling classes of both great imperial powers

[Review of] Simone Schwarz-Bart, The Bridge of Beyond

Simone Schwarz-Bart\u27s first novel (1972) makes highly commendable reading for anybody interested in Afro-Caribbean literature. Barbara Bray\u27s translation does remarkably well in capturing the poetic texture of the narrator\u27s (Telumee) account; Bridget Jones\u27 introduction is useful but could have focused more on the novel itself and on its sources

[Review of] Arnoldo De Ledn. The Tejano Community, 1836 - 1900

De León\u27s pioneering effort is a most welcome volume to Chicano Studies. The historian\u27s findings in the history of the Mexicans in Texas during most of the last century present a major addition to our knowledge of how agrarian Tejanos lived from the Texas Revolution to the turn of the century

[Review of] Tato Laviera. La Carreta Made a U-Turn

The title of this new book of poetry from New York\u27s Latino Lower East Side refers to a drama, La Carreta, by one of Puerto Rico’s most prestigious authors, René Marqués (1919-1979). It is generally considered one of the supreme artistic expressions of the collective Puerto Rican experience. At the end of the play the emigrants decide to leave New York City in an attempt to maintain their integrity and identity, to till the earth in the hills of Puerto Rico