My dear friend Oscar joins to review Stand and Deliver (1988), a classic of the films-about-education genre. Oscar Mancinas is a writer, scholar, and educator from Mesa, Arizona. His debut collection of short fiction, To Live and Die in El Valle (2020) was awarded a Southwest Book Prize. He's also the author of the poetry chapbooks Jaula and Roto: A Mex-Tape. He is a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University, and his debut full-length collection of poetry will be published later this year via Tolsun Books.

Here are links to Oscar's work:
>>https://artepublicopress.com/product/to-live-and-die-in-el-valle/
>>https://www.gasherjournal.com/product-page/jaula
>>https://rinkydinkpress.square.site/product/series-seven/14?cs=true&cst=custom
>>https://tolsunbooks.com/authors

And here's a link to an article we reference in the episode:
>>https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-13-mn-53264-story.html

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