Political Activism of Mexican Americans

In 1970, Tomßs Rivera published his original Spanish-language ...y no se lo trag= la tierra. Then, in 1995, due to the release of the movie, "àand the earth did not swallow him", a new translation of the book into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pi±=n was published. The original edition won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and is the story about a Mexican-American family's life as migrant workers during the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of a young boy. Exploited by farmers, shopkeepers and even fellow Chicanos, the boy must create a self-identity in the face of discrimination, death, and disease. According to an interview with Severo Perez, who made the movie, Rivera "wanted to make clear that while some these stories may have been true to him, he wanted the work considered fiction" (Fitzsimmons, 2000, p. 8). In writing this way he was able to have a more universal appeal, such as when S

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