Rivera taught in high schools throughout the Southwest USA, and later at Sam Houston State University and the University of Texas at El Paso. This book won the first Premio Quinto Sol award. y no se lo tragó la tierra, translated into English variously as This Migrant Earth and as. However, he achieved social mobility through education-gaining a degree at Southwest Texas State University (now known as Texas State University), and later a PhD at the University of Oklahoma-and came to believe strongly in the virtues of education for Mexican Americans.Īs an author, Rivera is best remembered for his 1971 Faulknerian stream-of-consciousness novella. He was born in Texas to migrant farm workers, and had to work in the fields as a young boy. Tomás Rivera (Decem– May 16, 1984) was a Chicano author, poet, and educator.
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