Raul R. Salinas is regarded as one of today's most important
Chicano poets and human rights activists, but his passage to this
place of distinction took him through four of the most brutal
prisons in the country. His singular journey from individual
alienation to rage to political resistance reflected the social
movements occurring inside and outside of prison, making his story
both personal and universal.
This groundbreaking collection of Salinas' journalism and
personal correspondence from his years of incarceration and
following his release provides a unique perspective into his
spiritual, intellectual, and political metamorphosis. The book also
offers an insider's view of the prison rebellion movement and its
relation to the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s
and 1970s. The numerous letters between Salinas and his family,
friends, and potential allies illustrate his burgeoning political
awareness of the cause and conditions of his and his comrades'
incarceration and their link to the larger political and historical
web of social relations between dominant and subaltern groups.
These collected pieces, as well as two interviews with Salinas--one
conducted upon his release from prison in 1972, the second more
than two decades later--reveal to readers the transformation of
Salinas from a street hipster to a man seeking to be a part of
something larger than himself. Louis Mendoza has painstakingly
compiled a body of work that is autobiographical, politically
insurgent, and representative.
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