About the Book
Since it was first published in 1971, Galarza's classic
work""has been assigned in high school and undergraduate classrooms
across the country, profoundly affecting thousands of students who
read this true story of acculturation into American life.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of "Barrio
Boy," the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to reissue this
best-selling book with a new text design and cover, as well an
introduction--by Ilan Stavans, the distinguished cultural critic
and editor of the "Norton Anthology of Latino Literature--"which
places Ernesto Galarza and "Barrio Boy"in historical context.
About the Author
Ernesto Galarza (1905-1984) was a labor organizer, historian,
professor, and community activist. When he was eight, he migrated
from Jalcocotan, Nayarit, Mexico, to Sacramento, California, where
he worked as a farm laborer. He received a Ph.D. in history from
Columbia University. In addition to "Barrio Boy," he is the author
of a number of books, including "Strangers in Our Fields" (1956),
"Merchants of Labor" (1964), and "Spiders in the House and Workers
in the Fields" (1970). In 1979, Dr. Galarza was nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Unlike people who are born in hospitals, in an ambulance, or in
a taxicab I showed up in an adobe cottage with a thatched roof that
stood at one end of the only street of Jalcocotan, which everybody
called Jalco for short. Like many other small villages in the wild,
majestic mountains of the Sierra Madre de Nayarit, my pueblo was a
hideaway. Even though you lived there, arriving in Jalco was always
a surprise." --"from Chapter 1"
Reviews of the original edition
." . . An illuminating record of the forebodings of ordinary
rural Mexicans at the beginning of the revolution." -- "The New
York Review of Books"
"With its suspense, humor, and occasional sadness, "Barrio Boy"
is splendid reading." -- "American Anthropologist "
"Galarza's proud and moving book is a testament to who he is,
where he came from, and to the country which received him and in
which he has devoted his life fighting for both "la justicia" and
justice." -- "Social Education Journal "
"Barrio Boy"is the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a
Mexican village so small its main street didn't have a name, to the
"barrio" of Sacramento, California, bustling and thriving in the
early decades of the twentieth century. With vivid imagery and a
rare gift for re-creating a child's sense of time and place,
Ernesto Galarza gives an account of the early experiences of his
extraordinary life--from revolution in Mexico to segregation in the
United States--that will continue to delight readers for
generations to come.
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