The earth, sea, and clouds graced this watercolorist's canvas, and with each bold stroke Boyer Gonzales captured his subjects in his own distinctive style. Throughout his life, Gonzales drew and painted scenes around him - from the South Texas coastline to Mexico. In 1895 he pioneered the route of American painters in Mexico, where he found scenes he would return to time and again. He truly entered the art scene, though, in 1916 when his watercolor...

The past decade has seen the dramatic emergence of the Chicano, or Mexican-American, from passive endurance of century-old indifference and injustice at the hands of Anglo society. Such figures as César Chávez in California, Reies Lopez Tijerina in New Mexico, and José Angel Gutíerrez in Texas are but the most visible signs of this far-reaching renaissance of ethnic pride and power. The thirty-two essays in this volume consider the Chicano movement...