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Young men, mexican americans, children of immigrants, fiction, protected daisy, in library. Like juan manuel rubio in pocho, villarreals father fought with pancho villa in the mexican revolution. The 1959 novel, pocho, by jose antonio villarreal, is an insightful cultural. Villarreal illuminates here the world of pochos, americans whose parents come to the united states from mexico.
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