Chican@s in the Conversations

LONGMAN TOPICS are brief, thought-provoking readers on a single complex, compelling, topic. Featuring about 30 full-length reading selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers.

Chican@s in the Conversations, by Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler and Anne Perrin,takes a provocative look at critical issues facing the Mexican American communities today. This unique reader explores questions of identity, language, culture, education, and real or imagined borders in both contemporary and classic essays, while introducing readers to a range of familiar and emerging writers.

This brief, affordable reader takes a provocative look at critical issues facing the Chican@ communities today and provides thought-provoking questions and writing topics for each reading.