# Barrio Boy, Vol. 1

By **Ernesto Galarza**

- ISBN-13: 9780268029791
- Series: [Barrio Boy](https://mybookbandits.com/series/barrio-boy-40th-anniversary-edition)
- Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
- Pages: 307
- Published: 1 Jan 2011
- Language: eng
- Price: £42.00 (new)
- Categories: History, Biography, Social life and customs, United States, Childhood and youth, 20th Century, Biographies, Immigrants, Mexican americans, California, Galarza, Ernesto, Mexican American neighborhoods, Sacramento, Sacramento (Calif.), Nayarit (Mexico)

## About this book

Ernesto Galarza was born in an adobe cottage with a thatched roof at the end of the only street in Jalcocotan, a village tucked so deep in the Sierra Madre de Nayarit that arriving there was always a surprise. His memoir follows him from that hideaway, through the upheaval of the Mexican Revolution, to the bustling barrio of early twentieth-century Sacramento, where he arrived at eight and met the realities of segregation. He writes with humour, occasional sadness and a rare feel for how a child measures time and place.

First published in 1971 and long taught in American classrooms, it returns in a fortieth-anniversary edition with an introduction by Ilan Stavans setting Galarza, later a labour organiser and historian, in context. It is a book for anyone drawn to immigrant lives told from the inside, with warmth and clear eyes.

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