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CHICANO TODAY: Life in Aztlan, complete index





January 1  There Was Once A Young Man
 January 2  Color
January 3   The Shopping Cart
January 4      Setting Our Agenda
January 5  The Magazines 
January 6  The Higher Road 
January 7  The San Francisco Mayor
January 8  Random Acts of Chicanismo
January 9  The Ox and the Carreta
January 10  On Fasting and Hunger Striking
January 11   The Nice Racists
January 12  Coconuts
January 13  The Gas Company Man
January 14  The Grape Strike
January 15  On Meditation and Bujerias
January 16  Strength From Inside
January 17  On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,. Day
January 18  A New Beginning
January 19  The Store
January 20     The Fisherman
January 21  The Lady and Her Views
January 22     The Taxpayer
January 23   Loyalty
January 24  On Losing
January 25  Malinchistas
January 26       Languages
January 27     La Huelga
January 28     The Indian
jJamuary 29   Get Your Own Ideas
January 30       On  Leadership
January 31  A Phase
February 1  California Dreaming
February  2      The Message
February  3    Searching For Quetzalcoatl
February  4        The Beauty School Effect
February  5  We Still Can’t Paint Our Faces Brown
February  6    La Diabla
February  7    To the Youth
February  8   The Disneyland Latino
February  9     The Toys
February  10   I Can...     
February  11    Dangerous Minds
February  12     The MANGO Award
February  13      The Open Mike
February  14  The Power of the Pen
February 15    Turning a Negative into a Positive
February  16     Las Ultimas Palabras
February  17    The US President
February  18  The Construction Site
February  19  The Mexican Photo IDs
February  20       My Own Song
February  21  You Are My Defender and Protector
February  22      The 3 Bulls
February  23      The Disaster
February  24      The Union Bug
February  25        Battle or War?
February  26      Choosing Leaders.
February  27         The Noise Factor
February  28       You Have to be Protected
March  1       March is the Month of the Woman
March  2       War is Peace
March  3     Chicanos/ Mexicanos  
March  4    Violence and Non-violence  
March  5       The Funeral of Cesar
March  6    What is a Chicano? 
March  7    El Nopal en la Frente
March  8    Beyond Cesar Chavez
 March  9        Bajar la Comida
March 10        Guadalupe
March  11    Full Circle
March  12    Missing Chapters
March  13    Chicanos & the Border
March  14    “Lord, Are You a White Man”?
March  15  Too Many Fights 
March  16    Cortez
March  17    I Don’t Feel Like...
March  18    The Eye Candy
March  19    On Criticism
March  20  Job Requirements
March  21    The Freedom of Speech
March  22     Open University
March  23  They Would Rather Have Gangs Than MECHAs
March  24      “You’re Not A Chicana…”
March  25      The Last of Its Kind
March  26  The White Male Syndrome
March  27  Mexicans / Mexican-Americans
March  28  College Alumni
March  29       The Michoacan Poster
March 30  Fighting During Lent
March 31     Judicial Notice
April  1   White Approval
April  2  The Snitch Factor
April  3    Pulling a Blair Witch
April  4    On Politics
April  5        The Concert
April  6    The Blue Hair
April  7    Wanting to Help
April  8  The Rabbit and the Bear
April  9    The Posts
April  10    The Bus and the Spanish Speaking
April  11    Juries
April  12    Last
April  13    Amnesty 
April  14     Speaking Out
April  15   Of Wheyes and Wheyas (Bueyes and Huellas)   
April  16    The Federal Building
April  17  Rigoberta & the Visit:  When Words Fall Short
April  18        Job Discrimination and EEOC
April  19       Multi-tasking
April  20     Vacation
April  21     The Hollywood Movies
April  22     The Fast Food Toys
April  23     The Creature
April  24      Sundays
April  25     Bilingual and Bicultural
April  26        Death
April 27  The Chicano A List
April 28    The 3 Taboos
April  29      The Judge and the Charges
April  30     The Story of Black Athlete
May  1           May Day
May 2  “Not Good Enough for Cinco de Mayo Speaker”
May  3     The Day the Gabachos Stole Cinco de Mayo
May  4   Where No Cinco de Mayo Has Gone Before
May   5    The Real Meaning of el Cinco de Mayo
May   6   The Real Meaning of el Cinco de Mayo
May  7      On Boycotts (Grapes and Otherwise)
May  8       God Still Talks To Us
May  9     The Big Guns
May  10     Mothers
May  11    A  Message
May  12      My First Job
May  13    The Y gene
May  14    The  Apollo 13 Effect
May  15      More Cinco de Mayo
May  16     Age and Young People
May  17    Some Sports
May  18    A Story
May  19    Jobs
May  20    The Land Issue
May 21   How Do You Eat An Elephant?
May 22  The Fear Factor
May  23      The Fear of God
May  24      Respect for Your Elders
May  25     R Mode (The Right Brain)
May  26    The Chicano Studies Class 
May  27      Leadership 
May  28       Latinos and TV
May  29   Latino Leadership and the 1 Hit Wonder
May  30    The Dance of the Students
May   31   The Supervisor
June  1    Daughter of Bakke
June  2     The Gatekeepers
June  3    The Separation
June  4     “It’s Not You …”
June  5      “…Your Enemies…”
June  6      Distances
June  7  Another Reason to Vote
June  8  The United States becomes the Fifth Largest 
June  9  Latinos and the Media
June 10  Fighting Back for Guadalajara
June  11  The Art of Hatred
June  12  The Son of Prop 187
June  13  The American Family
June  14  Orange County (The OC) Chicanos
June  15  Lotto  Mania (Hitting the Big One)
June  16       Technology and Latinos
June  17   Non-Violence at an Immigrant Rally
 June  18  The English Only Initiatives
June  19  The Recent Court Decision
June  20       Our Heroes
June  21 Killing the Prophets: 
June  22 President Bush's visit to Mexico
June  23 The Court and the 3 Strikes Law
June  24   Driver’s Licenses
June  25           Unity
June  26  Like Poker
June  27   “Walk in Beauty”
June  28   “The Gringo” Magazine
June  29  The Missionaries of Charity
June  30    “Follow Me”
July  1   “Entertain Me”
July  .2    Pisar tierra Mexicana
July  3     The Menudo
July  4     Independencia  
July  5      Mr.  Og Mandino’s Books
July  6  We Are Not Our Own Enemies
July  7    Deception
July  8 “If You Want to be Interesting, Read …”
July  9  “If You Want to Meet Good People, Volunteer ”
July  10     The Shooting
July  11     To Serve and Protect: More or Less
July  12           New Challenges
July  13     The Woman and the Bus
July  14       The Parrots
July  15     The Artistic Eye
July  16     El Mango
July  17     Evil and Power
July  18     The Child
July  19     The See Saw
July  20      The Police Brutality Case
July  21     The Aztecs
July  22       Monsters
July  23     The Sower
July  24     The Minority View
July  25       Dogs, Horses and Hoses
July  26       2 Leaders: Two Views on Crime
July  27       Actions and Omissions
July  28      The Desert
July  29      The Color of Eyes
July  30              The Bug
July  31                    Crime
August  1        Barbershop Talks
August  2        The Heard Mentality
August  3       Same Wavelength
August  4          The Artist
August  5        The Word ‘Chicano’
August  6    The Greatest Minds
August  7     Sealed   In   Blood  
August  8         Hawks & Doves
August  9         Our Legacy
August  10      ELA - its Lost Opportunity
August  11     On Chicano History
August  12      Who switched?
August  13      The Spanish Language
August  14       The Lost Concept
August  15          The Subway
August  16        Fahrenheit 9/11 in OC
August  17       Right or Wrong
August  18         Role Reversal
August  19          The Tree
August  20     The Puppet / Talking Head
August  21        Stopping Evolution
August 22     Balanced
August  23      Evolution
August  24      The Older Anglo Lady
August  25         The Strangest Things
August  26       The Train   
August 27  The Tip
August 28       Progress
August 29        August 29th
August 30    Self Realization
August 31        Lawyering Lawyers
September 1    I've Met Bigger Coconuts
September 2      Learning to say "No"
September 3       Choices
September 4  The Tree Sitter
September 5        Labor Day
September 6         The MTV Culture
September 7    Taking a Trip
September 8     The Dog
September 9     The Explorer
September 10  Better no Latino, than a Bad Latino
September 11      September 11th
September 12     God or Country?
September 13      The Parakeet
September 14     The Watch
September 15      Reverse Discrimination
September 16     I’m So Angry … En El Espiritu
September 17     Success
September 18       Married in Mexico
September 19    The Car
September 20       Pensando en Espanol
September 21      Gabacho Culture
September 22       The Mexican Soup
September  23      Sanctuary
September 24     The Pepper Trees
September 25      The Languages
September 26      The  Chilango
September 27     The Classroom
September 28     Calle de los muertos
September 29     The Raven
September 30     The Death
October 1       Fall
October 2      The Gang
October 3        The Great Divide
October 4      Cell Phones 
October 5       A UCLA Story 
October 6     The Idea
October 7      The INS Computer
October 8      The Farm workers
October 9      Sales
October 10       The US Media
October 11        Send in the Clowns
October 12        El  Dia de la Raza /  (My Chicano Birthday)
October 13     White People
October 14   Chicano History X
October 15   Dying and Taking it With You
October 16       The  Old  Man
October 17        The Glacier
October 18    Chicano Friendly
October 19         Coconut Plus
October 20     Harvesting the Body
October 21       La Familia
October 22           Immigration
October 23      Working on Yourself
October 24       “The Road Not Taken….”
October 25          "Spare the Rod…
October 26            Letting Go
October 27            Living Trusts
October 28          God  Watching Us
October 29         An Ordinary Life
October 30         La Medusa
October 31     The Witch
November 1           Details
November 2         Everyone Can Be A Saint
November 3           A Woman for President
November 4          Non-Profits
November 5     “You live in Paradise”
November 6            La Frontera
November 7       The Baby Elephant
November 8          The Handicapped Parking
November 9      The Loco Pollo Maker
November 10        The Stranger
November 11       De Facto Racism
November 12     Veteran's Day  (The First Wave)
November 13    The Recent Mexican Movie
November 14   A Different View from Guadalajara
November 15     La Gringa
November 16   The Boy from Oaxaca
November 17           Leaving
November 18       Sports and Racism
November 19      Sports and Racism part 2
November 20       Stories are Powerful
November 21     Where Do They Learn This?
November 22       The Last Thing
November 23        The Pawn and the King
November 24         Our History
November 25     Psalm 73  The Justice of God
November 26     Psalm 91  God is Our Protector
November 27       The Day After
November 28         The One
November 29         Skipping the MECHA Years:  The Chicano Experience
November 30     The Chicken and Pizza Places
December 1      Thank You to the 'Average Joe'
December 2        Best of Friends
December 3          Killer Attitude
December  4           The Young Girl
December 5       The Heads of Your Enemies
December 6        Lies  
December  7   Raised on AIDS
December  8    Behind the Orange Curtain
December  9      Losing
December  10          The Classics
December  11        Ministry for Latinos
December 12     La Virgen de Guadalupe
December 13      The Two Men
December 14      The Battery
December 15       From the 3rd World
December 16       It Is Strange
December 17     On Writing
December 18      Regarding Boycotts
December 19   The Mean Season  
December 20    The 100 Latino Children:  The 
December 21      The Born Again Chicano
December 22        Cheating
December 23       Learning From Each Other
December 24        The Empty Christmas
December 25        Christmas 
December 26       Sometimes You Get the Bear
December 27      The Towers
December 28        The Snow
December 29           The Trees  
December 30        Legacy
December 31    The College Student 

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