Spilling the Beans in ChicanolandiaSince the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil rights struggle, today's Chicano a writers and artists feel free to focus as much on the aesthetic quality of their work as on its social content.