{"product_id":"9780268029791","title":"Barrio Boy: 40th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince it was first published in 1971, Galarza's classic work\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ehas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarrio Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eNorton Anthology of Latino Literature--\u003c\/i\u003ewhich places Ernesto Galarza and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarrio Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ein historical context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnesto Galarza \u003c\/b\u003e(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 \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarrio Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, he is the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eStrangers in Our Fields\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), \u003ci\u003eMerchants of Labor\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), and \u003ci\u003eSpiders in the House and Workers in the Fields\u003c\/i\u003e (1970). In 1979, Dr. Galarza was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003efrom Chapter 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews of the original edition\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . An illuminating record of the forebodings of ordinary rural Mexicans at the beginning of the revolution.\" -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With its suspense, humor, and occasional sadness, \u003ci\u003eBarrio Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is splendid reading.\" -- \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003ela justicia\u003c\/i\u003e and justice.\" -- \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Education Journal\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarrio Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis the remarkable story of one boy's journey from a Mexican village so small its main street didn't have a name, to the \u003ci\u003ebarrio\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049293267184,"sku":"9780268029791","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780268029791_p0.jpg?v=1763681478","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780268029791","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}