The Prince of South Waco, Author Signed Softcover

The Prince of South Waco is the moving, turbulent rite of passage memoir of growing up Latino in Texas in mid-20th Century America. It is the true story of American journalist and historian Tony Castro -- author of the landmark civil rights history Chicano Power -- who luckily would be rescued from an elementary school class for mentally impaired children. "A dozen years later I was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard closing down the Faculty Club with celebrated author and Nieman alumnus Larry L. King. We were knee walking drunk almost through the snow in Harvard Yard in the direction of the Chauncy Street townhouse where I was living beyond the square and arguing over just which town in our distinguished native state of Texas had once been the home of an ignominious sign taking pride in its racism of the past. "'Welcome to Waco -- Home of the Blackest Land and the Whitest People.' "I grew up in Waco, in the heart of the Bible Belt in mid 20th century America, bilingual, bi-cultural, and