Articles in Camino Real

The meeting of the “Mexican Patriot Club” in the Cooper Institute in New York City on July 19, 1865 gave Mexican exiles a powerful forum from which to exalt the ideal of Republicanism in the...

In 1972, the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) published a comic by the Mexican comic artist Rius: NACLA Presents Rius: The Chicanos. This was an English-language...

This article offers a feminist analysis of the representation of the Chicana body in Helena María Viramontes’s novel Under the Feet of Jesus and in her short stories. In...

This essay examines quebradita dancing, a Mexican/Mexican American social dance form first cultivated during the 1990s through transborder exchanges, as a tool for the development of...

The Itinerary of Juan de Oñate's expedition (1598) and the Historia de la Nueva México (1610) by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá are distinct in their styles and purposes. The Itinerary is an official...

This article examines the ways in which Judith Ortiz Cofer and Esmeralda Santiago use their memoirs to explore issues of identity, race, and gender as essential components of a transnational...