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    A Study Guide for Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "I Am Joaquin"
    A Study Guide for Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "I Am Joaquin"
    A Study Guide for Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "I Am Joaquin"
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    A Study Guide for Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "I Am Joaquin"

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    A Study Guide for Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "I Am Joaquin", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781535845991
    A Study Guide for Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "I Am Joaquin"

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      A Study Guide for Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales's "I Am Joaquin" - Gale

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      I Am Joaquin

      Rodolfo Corky Gonzales

      1967

      Introduction

      I Am Joaquin/Yo soy Joaquín is one of the most important and most powerful works of Mexican American literature and the Chicano civil rights movement. Rodolfo Corky Gonzales was a boxer turned entrepreneur, politician, activist, and community leader. He lived in Denver in the 1960s, where he directed a groundbreaking organization called the Crusade for Justice. Recognizing the role that epic verse might play in both inspiring and educating Chicanos, he published this poem, which spans centuries of Mexican and Mexican American history in over five hundred lines in both English and Spanish, in 1967. The poem became the first literary milestone in a period meriting recognition as the Chicano Renaissance, which witnessed a flourishing of works in prose and verse alike, generally oriented toward the expression of Chicano heritage and culture and the uplift of La Raza, Spanish for the race or the people. I Am Joaquin was used in oral performance as originally written and was also adapted for the stage and for film. The poem was Gonzales's major literary work; a volume of his selected writings was published decades after publication of the poem. The original bilingual edition of I Am Joaquin/Yo soy Joaquín includes broad-stroke illustrations of muralistic gravity by Yermo Vasquez. The 1972 edition includes retrospective commentary by the author. The poem can also be found in Message to Aztlán: Selected Writings of Rodolfo Corky Gonzales (2001).

      Author Biography

      Gonzales was born in Denver, Colorado, on June 18, 1928, to a family of migrant workers living in a barrio—a Spanish word generally used in American contexts for what JoséVillarino, in a tribute to Gonzales, terms a tough poor neighborhood. His mother, Indalecia, died when Gonzales was two, leaving her husband, Federico, to raise their eight children through the Great Depression. By the age of ten, Gonzales was laboring in sugar beet fields during the growing season and attending school as much as possible. Gonzales's intellect and accomplishments enabled him to graduate at the age of sixteen, in 1944. He proceeded to the University of Denver to study engineering, but the costs were prohibitive, and he left after one term. Skilled as a boxer, Gonzales embarked on a highly successful career. He won a national amateur championship and an international championship, and at the height of his career, he was ranked third in the National Boxing Association world featherweight division. He did not win the title, probably because of lack of opportunity. He finished with sixty-five victories in seventy-five matches.

      Upon ending his fighting career, Gonzales turned his attention to politics and

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