Charley Trujillo was born on November 6,1949 and is a Chicano novelist, editor, publisher, and filmmaker.
29 Facts About Charley Trujillo
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Charley Trujillo is known for his novel and documentary Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam.
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Charley Trujillo was born in Hanford, California in 1949, as one of seven children of Raymond and Guadalupe Trujillo.
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Charley Trujillo was raised in Corcoran, in a typical Latino farm working family.
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Charley Trujillo worked in the fields with his family and attended Corcoran High School.
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Charley Trujillo faced discrimination in school and out of this family and fellow Chicanos.
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Two weeks after graduating high school in 1968, Trujillo enlisted in the US Army.
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Charley Trujillo signed up for the experience and to mature out of his hometown.
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Charley Trujillo served in Germany as an infantryman in 1969, then volunteered for South Vietnam.
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Charley Trujillo served there as a sergeant in the infantry, earning both a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal.
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Charley Trujillo served in the US Army from 1968 until 1970.
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Charley Trujillo had a difficult time on his arrival back to America.
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Once relieved of illness, Charley Trujillo went to work in the fields, but decided that he did not want to do menial work for the rest of his life.
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Charley Trujillo realized how much the war negatively affected all those involved, and joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
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Charley Trujillo attended Fresno City College from 1971 to 1972, then transferred to UC Berkeley where he received his BA in Chicano studies in 1976.
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Charley Trujillo continued in the Teaching Credential Program in 1977.
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Charley Trujillo continued his education at San Jose State University, earning his MA in Chicano Studies.
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From 1978 to 1991 Charley Trujillo was a professor of Ethnic Studies, Social Sciences and Chicano Studies at De Anza College.
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Charley Trujillo felt as though Chicanos are a demographic who have been neglected in society.
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Charley Trujillo decided to document the experience of the Chicano soldiers in the war.
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Charley Trujillo put together Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam, an accumulation of 19 Chicano war stories.
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Charley Trujillo went to over 70 publishers, all of whom rejected the book.
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Charley Trujillo's frustration led him to create his own publishing company in 1990.
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Charley Trujillo is the founder and current editor and publisher of Chusma House Publications.
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Charley Trujillo focuses on works of worth and significance, rather than novels designed for commercial purposes.
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Charley Trujillo wrote Dogs From Illusion, another Viet Nam war novel.
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Charley Trujillo directed and co-produced the documentary Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam with Sonya Rhee, in 2003.
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Charley Trujillo has lectured at over 60 universities and colleges, nationally and internationally.
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Charley Trujillo is currently writing a fictional memoir: The Real Life of a Dead Chicano: Patas de Perro.