Raúlrsalinas Explained

raúlrsalinas
Birth Name:	Raúl R. Salinas
Birth Date:	March 17, 1934
Birth Place:	San Antonio, Texas
Death Place:	Austin, Texas, United States
Nationality:	American

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]

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).
• East of the Freeway: Reflections De Mi Pueblo (Red Salmon Press, 1995).
• Many Mundos Of Raulrsalinas: Un Poetic Jazz Viaje (Calaca Press, 2000).
• Red Arc: A Call For Liberación Con Salsa Y Cool (Wings Press, 2005).
• raú́lrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon is My Pen (University of Texas Press, 2006).
• Indio Trails: A Xicano Odyssey Through Indian Country (Wings Press, 2006).
• Memoir of Un Ser Humano: The Life and Times de Raúlrsalinas, edited by Louis G. Mendoza. (Red Salmon Press, 2018).

See also

• List of Chicano poets
• Pinto (subculture)

Notes and References

1. Book: Rubin . Rachel . Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction . December 11, 2006 . Palgrave Macmillan . New York . 978-1349534661 . 227–237 . 1 . 9 December 2020.
2. Web site: 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 . 9 December 2020.
3. Mendoza . Louis G. . The Re-Education of a Xicanindio: Raúl Salinas and the Poetics of Pinto Transformation . Multi-Ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice . Spring 2003 . 28 . 1 . 39–60 . 10.2307/3595245 . 3595245 . 9 December 2020.
4. Mendoza . Louis G. . 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 . April 1, 2018 . NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings . 9 December 2020.
5. Web site: Raúl Salinas papers, 1957-2008 . Stanford Libraries . Stanford University . 9 December 2020.
6. Book: Mendoza . Louis G. . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature . Salinas, Raúl . https://oxfordre.com/literature/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.001.0001/acrefore-9780190201098-e-1148 . Oxford Research Encyclopedias . 2020 . Oxford University . 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1148 . 978-0-19-020109-8 . 9 December 2020.