The Contested Homeland Rebecca Newell Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten

Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten sources

Sterling Houston is an innovative African American writer whose plays are known for biting social commentary combined with eye-popping theatricality

and in one of his letters

Interviews with American Composers is an artistic and historical snapshot of American music at an important crossroads

one that draws upon the skills of the educational

The Contested Homeland Rebecca Newell Drawing on unpublished and long-forgottenMany books deal with New Mexico's past, but the twelve original essays here reinterpret that history for the first time from a Chicano perspective. Self determination, resistance, and cultural maintenance are the recurring themes in the lives and struggles of Nuevomexicanos from 1848 to the present. On a more fundamental level, the clash has been over modernisation how the Spanish language, folk traditions, and land grants can survive as a heritage