It explores the struggle of a Mexican-American family to become American and yet not be pulled apart by a maelstrom of cultural forces.

This is a quiet, sentimental but compelling story of a migrant Mexican-American family in the 1950's.

"I grew up in a Mexican-American family," he said.

In the author's words, the play deals with "borders between family members and between countries; it's about a Mexican-American family that goes back to Mexico."

Many Irwindalians are related, and some powerful Mexican-American families play a big role in civic affairs.

Lucy's home is portrayed as a low-income, Mexican-American family.

Aside from that notable insight, this is an unimpressive sitcom about a Mexican-American family newly moved into the middle class.

A section of the community, located east of the railroad, was set aside for Mexican and Mexican-American families.

Viramontes was born into a Mexican-American family.

The unfortunate thing was, back then the thinking in many Mexican-American families was that girls did not need an education.