In his memoir, The Boy Kings of Texas, Domingo Martinez recites what his life was like growing up in Brownsville, Texas. Martinez, struggling with his cultural identity feels like an outsider, all that more by his family's emotional and physical tendencies towards violence. Martinez troubled by the actions of those in his surroundings picks bit and pieces of what good was left in the Mexican farming class in the 1970’s and 1980’s, who is over run by wayward masculine individuals. Constructing his identity through those bits and pieces, growing farther away from his wayward father who seizes any given opportunity to demonstrate what real men are supposed to be like. Domingo Martinez being a smart and sensitive boy growing up quickly picks
