raúlrsalinas

Raúl R. Salinas (March 17, 1934 - February 13, 2008), better known by his pen name raúlrsalinas, was a Chicano pinto poet, memoirist, social activist, and prison journalist. Much of raúlrsalinas' writing was grounded in arguments for social justice and human rights.[1] He was an early pioneer of Chicano pinto (prisoner) poetry and is notable for his use of vernacular, bilingual, and free verse aesthetics.[2]

raúlrsalinas
Born
Raúl R. Salinas

(1934-03-17)March 17, 1934
San Antonio, Texas
DiedFebruary 13, 2008(2008-02-13) (aged 73)
Austin, Texas, United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupationauthor, poet, activist

Alongside Ricardo Sánchez, Judy Lucero, Luis Talamantez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, raúlrsalinas sought to make prisoners' rights a more central focus of the Chicano Movement.[3] Incarcerated for over a decade (1959–1972) for carrying a small amount of marijuana,[4] raúlrsalinas wrote extensively while in prison, including essays, letters, prose, and journalism, the vast majority which is now held at Stanford University.[5] raúlrsalinas' work extended beyond his prison writing, focusing also on his Xicanindio (indigenous identified Chicano) heritage and his politics as a Latino internationalist. According to Oxford University, raúlrsalinas "transformed elements of the American literary canon."[6]

Works
  • Un Trip through the Mind Jail y Otras Excursions (Arte Publico Press, 1980). ISBN 978-1558852754
  • East of the Freeway: Reflections De Mi Pueblo (Red Salmon Press, 1995). ISBN 978-0962350603
  • Many Mundos Of Raulrsalinas: Un Poetic Jazz Viaje (Calaca Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0966077353
  • Red Arc: A Call For Liberación Con Salsa Y Cool (Wings Press, 2005). ISBN 978-0916727192
  • raú́lrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon is My Pen (University of Texas Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0292713284
  • Indio Trails: A Xicano Odyssey Through Indian Country (Wings Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0916727376
  • Memoir of Un Ser Humano: The Life and Times de Raúlrsalinas, edited by Louis G. Mendoza. (Red Salmon Press, 2018). ISBN 978-1642042061

See also

References
  1. Rubin, Rachel (December 11, 2006). Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction (1 ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 227-237. ISBN 978-1349534661. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. Vidales, Santiago. "Hemispheric Poetics: raúlsalinas, César Vallejo, and the convergence of Xicanx and Vanguardia poetry". 2019 Indigenous Knowledge for Resistance: Lecciones from Our Past. San Jose State University. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. Mendoza, Louis G. (Spring 2003). "The Re-Education of a Xicanindio: Raúl Salinas and the Poetics of Pinto Transformation". Multi-Ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice. 28 (1): 39-60. doi:10.2307/3595245. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  4. Mendoza, Louis G. (April 1, 2018). "Memoir of Un Ser Humano: The Life and Times of raulrsalinas". The Queer Turn: Selected Proceedings of the 2018 Meeting of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings). Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  5. "Raúl Salinas papers, 1957-2008". Stanford Libraries. Stanford University. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  6. Mendoza, Louis G. "Salinas, Raúl". Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Oxford University. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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