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Just dumped by his girlfriend, Jace Antonakos has recorded a proclamation in a notebook his English teacher made him take on his winter vacation to the Mayan Riviera: I'm going to Mexico to get laid. The fact that he's only days away from turning 18 and still a virgin has Jace spooked, and he figures that Playa del Carmen's golden beaches draped with equally golden girls should increase his odds of success. On the other hand, the fact that he's travelling with his mother, his aunt and his nine-year-old autistic brother just about kills that bet. Then he meets Kate, who he thinks might be...

Sometimes we are scared to look within. After all, we might not like what we find there. We might have the perfect picture of ourselves that we have manufactured in our mind's eye shattered by the realization that we still have weeds of sin deeply entwined in certain furrows of our heart. Perhaps, we may think, it is easier to be ignorant and let these things go. But if we let them go, the weeds will continue to grow, and the kind of fruit they bear will hinder our walk with the Lord. If we desire to bear the fruit of righteousness in our hearts, we must--with the Lord's help of...

Sometimes we are scared to look within. After all, we might not like what we find there. We might have the perfect picture of ourselves that we have manufactured in our mind's eye shattered by the realization that we still have weeds of sin deeply entwined in certain furrows of our heart. Perhaps, we may think, it is easier to be ignorant and let these things go. But if we let them go, the weeds will continue to grow, and the kind of fruit they bear will hinder our walk with the Lord. If we desire to bear the fruit of righteousness in our hearts, we must--with the Lord's help of...

Radicals in the Barrio uncovers a long and rich history of political radicalism within the Mexican and Chicano working class in the United States. Chacon clearly and sympathetically documents the ways that migratory workers carried with them radical political ideologies, new organizational models, and shared class experience, as they crossed the border into southwestern barrios during the first three decades of the twentieth-century.

Justin Akers Chacon previous work includes No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (with...