From This Wicked Patch of Dust is a novel by Sergio Troncoso first published in 2011 by The University of Arizona Press. It explores the struggle of a...

nuanced and authentic. Sergio Troncoso's latest, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, follows a family from humble beginnings in a Texas border town through...

From This Wicked Patch of Dust, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays, and The Nature of Truth Sasha Velour, queen, artist, and winner of season nine of RuPaul's...

assimilation as well as to separate themselves from affiliating with Mexican migrants. As stated by Vigil, "much of this interethnic friction revolves around ...

ride height at the flick of a switch. Ron Aguirre developed this modification with help from his father, after conceiving of the idea. Aguirre's motivation...

Street almost as a way of claiming this is who I am. It became my flag". Cisneros created Esperanza from these personal feelings of displacement.[citation...

late 1970s that reads Aztlan instead of La Causa. Aztlan is the Chicanos' historical nation; those who wear this patch are committed to fighting for that...

voucher to the Joint Claims Commission of the United States in 1870 to cover the costs of this gunboat's conversion from a passenger steamer. No explanation...

Aztlán (from Nahuatl languages: Astatlan or westernized Aztlán, Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈast͡ɬãːn̥] ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word...

of Jewish refugees (fleeing oppression and the Holocaust) and their contributions to the culture and history of Los Angeles, refugees from the Dust Bowl...

and cultural struggle of Chicana/os to develop a political foundation and identity that rejected Anglo-American hegemony. This literature embraced the...

immigration laws it was not possible for the families of Punjabi workers to join them. Beyond this, poor wages and working conditions convinced the Punjabi...

group Brownside. Consisting of members Wicked, Klever, and Trouble, Brownside was essentially the Chicano equivalent of N.W.A.  Drawing their experiences...

problems of the city's Chicano youth. One of the founding documents, "El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán", was drafted during this conference. This document...

Marisela Treviño Orta Sergio Troncoso, author of The Last Tortilla and Other Stories, From This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays John...

deriving from the Spanish Empire, and the process of racial intermixing during the Spanish colonization of the Americas with the indigenous populations of the...

which resulted from the war-time boom in war-industry work, followed by the return of servicemen to the region and the Bracero program. Of the original...

Europeans from Germany (first during the Spanish regime in the 1830s), Poland, and Czechia migrated to Texas and Mexico, bringing with them their style of music...

enacted regulations on the amount of fabric used for suits. This enactment targeted Pachucos in particular because of the excess fabric used in their zoot...

growing population of Indigenous people of Mexican birth or descent. 200,000 people in the state are descended from one or more of Mexico's over 60 Indigenous...

Courts murals Flores-Figueroa v. United States Frito Bandito From This Wicked Patch of Dust Gadsden Purchase Galería de la Raza Gentefied George Lopez (TV...

of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two...

RUP from its ballot status. The Raza Unida Party left many contributions to the political structure of the state of Texas. Some argue that this impact...

the removal of Mexican and Indigenous populations from their land during the Mexican-American War. She refers to this as “the fiction of White Superiority...

Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Nagourney, Adam; Medina, Jennifer (October 11, 2016). "This City Is 78% Latino, and the Face of a New California"...

of American English spoken primarily by Mexican Americans (sometimes known as Chicanos), particularly in the Southwestern United States ranging from Texas...

Troncoso (From This Wicked Patch of Dust and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories) Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (Haters) Victor Villaseñor (Rain of Gold) Oscar Zeta...

dominated this territory, but perhaps more importantly from the Mexican point of view, it represented the bulk of pre-war Mexican territory north of the Missouri...

were white children who were being arbitrarily segregated from other whites in the absence of any state or federal law for their alleged language handicap...

the body of choice as a starting base to create unique designs and modifications, were far more scarce and more expensive. Stemming from this new popularity...