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"Mr. Steiner's staggering achievement in La Raza is to paint the broad picture to supply the details, to suggest a political sophistication and a perceptual depth and a cultural richness of which 'Angelos' are wholly unaware. Tijernina, Chavez, David Sanchez all are here, along with the history that shaped them. His accounts of Chicano poetry and the role of the Roman Catholic Church are superb___And he seems never personally to intrude on his this is what he learned, not what he set out to prove." — John Leonard, The New York Times // "La Raza is a hurricane of dialogue, monologue and oratory. From the barrios of Los Angeles and San Antonio; from the California vineyards and the cotton fields of Arizona; from the tiny, exhausted farms of New Mexico... comes a torrent of Chicano words— La Raza is really the journal of an odys-sey of the heart." Richard Bradford // "Steiner's La Raza is a book of panoramic scope and realized intention, an impressionistic history of the Mexican people from their original magnificence through their defeats and on to their burgeoning self-awareness and militancy. It is an intricate, fascinating tapestry, rich, colorful, beautiful." —John Rechy, Saturday Review