What Is The Theme Of Just Like Us

Doctor of Humane Letters from Loyola University, Chicago, 2002; an honorary Doctor of Letters from the State University of New York at Purchase, l993; two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships for fiction and poetry, l988, l982; the Roberta Holloway Lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley, l988; the Chicano Short Story Award from the University of Arizona, l986; the Texas Institute of Letters Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, l984; and an Illinois Artists Grant, l984 (Cisneros).
Parallel & Similar Materials

For this assignment, many of the books chosen have similar themes and motifs. Examples of this are When I was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, Latinos: Remaking America by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco and, Just Like Us: The True