#270 The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery-
Luis Alberto Urrea
Identity has been a theme in many of these stories, this one
especially. Junior is a skinny, brainy kid that hides his books from the other
kids so he won’t get beat-up. Shadow Garcia is a bit older, much bigger and
Junior’s friend He’s a happy-go-lucky tough guy.
The pair explore the California/Mexio border with a stolen
canoe before the border control picks them up. Until then, Shadow thought he
was an American, a Chicano, a Dodger’s fan. As it turns out, his parents snuck
him across the border when he was little from Tijuana, and never told him.
Sometimes you’re not even who you think you are.
“You a vato or a gabacho? Because…you got to be something.
If you ain’t something, you’re nothing. That’s a fact.”
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