tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post3730151581019729313..comments2024-03-26T09:40:00.710-06:00Comments on La Bloga: Chicano plots for your blockbusterContributing Bloguistas:http://www.blogger.com/profile/13054190814722049711noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-13775288283331496522012-02-25T11:42:00.167-07:002012-02-25T11:42:00.167-07:00Such a great article Millions of acres of farmland...Such a great article Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and forced hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes. Many Okies families moved to California where economic conditions were little better than what they'd left. In which hey affected author John Steinbeck enough to write about in The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Thanks for sharing this article.Brittanyhttp://www.christinefosterphoto.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-19363145182914450482011-12-15T03:45:55.980-07:002011-12-15T03:45:55.980-07:00You do a fine job showing how many fiction-invitin...You do a fine job showing how many fiction-inviting scenarios we can find even as we give voice to under-recognized circumstances.<br /><br />My forthcoming novel, THE KNIFE AND THE BUTTERFLY, is inspired by an actual event, as is the novel I'm working on now. The list of facts made me think about some of the research for the new novel, which deals in part with the segregation of Mexican-American students in some Texas schools.<br /><br />www.ashleyperez.com/blogAshley Hope Pérezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15991064798582078393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-19245287966939905182011-12-10T20:41:48.880-07:002011-12-10T20:41:48.880-07:00Rudy, I got a kick out of it... loved your various...Rudy, I got a kick out of it... loved your various possible pieces of fiction. I've sent it on to William deBuys... I have no doubt he'll be delighted... <br />Tom (of TomDispatch)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-44057716365029339432011-12-10T16:03:00.467-07:002011-12-10T16:03:00.467-07:00I busted up laughing through your scenarios, then ...I busted up laughing through your scenarios, then I sobered up with the grim but necessary statistics. Great article.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07925934256050681032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9367921.post-18912421760092165762011-12-10T09:54:54.810-07:002011-12-10T09:54:54.810-07:00Ideas, they're everywhere.
While visiting ru...Ideas, they're everywhere. <br /><br />While visiting ruins in the Southwest/Aztlán, I'v noticed that they tend to near dry river beds.<br /><br />And one I've never used: After 9/11/2001, a Chicano who doesn't speak Spanish or recognize his ancestral connections finds out that most of the people he knows think he's an Arab . . .ERNEST HOGANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540897948215678872noreply@blogger.com