Pocho Author:Jose Antonio Villarreal To many young Mexican-Americans who seek an identity rooted in their own cultural heritage, the pocho represents much of what they, the chicanos, are trying to change. — Jose Antonio Villarreal, however, intimately understands the pocho and brings alive the various problems his generation faced in Depression Era California. Richard,... more » the young pocho of the novel, experiences many of the same conflicts between loyalty to his traditions and attraction to new ideas. In his struggle to achieve adulthood as a youth influenced by two worlds, Richard illuminates not only the traditional Mexican culture, but also the difficulties of the hyphenated American.« less