Spilling the Beans Loteria Chicana Author:Jose Antonio Burciaga The author of Drink Cultura: Chicanismo presents nearly two dozen short pieces including essays on the Mambo dance of el Diablo, the 1943 Los Angeles Zoot Suit riots, NAFTA, and the defense of the jalapeno. — Spilling the beans El Diablo y El Mambo La sanitaria Ramblings on NAFTA Man proposes and God disposes The first thanksgivings In defense of... more » the jalapeno and other chiles Home by the sea Pachucos and the taxicab brigade The honorable Senator Ralph W. Yarborough Ay caramba! "La Margarita" and the many stories of Mujeres named "Margarita" What's in a Spanish name? Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe: the legend and the image Quetzalcoatl The working class intellectual Primero Mayo Mexico, loved and surreal Birth and death of a mural Colores Bilingual cognates From comedy fiesta to culture clash Dreams and flowers for Margarita« less