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Informationen zum Autor Louis G. Mendoza is Associate Vice Provost in the Office for Equity and Diversity at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, where he is also Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano Studies. He is coeditor of Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration and author of Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History. Klappentext This collection of interviews conducted while the author traveled across the country demonstrates the complexity of Latino immigration by foregrounding the myriad voices of immigrants themselves. Zusammenfassung This collection of interviews conducted while the author traveled across the country demonstrates the complexity of Latino immigration by foregrounding the myriad voices of immigrants themselves. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Latinoization of the U.S. and "Our" National CultureOne. Leaving: Home Is No Longer Home Gloria Caballero: Amherst, Massachussetts Luis: Northeastern U.S. Guillermo Vasa: New York, New York Fernando: Boise, IdahoTwo. The Crucible of Change and Adaptation Adela Marmion: Tucson, Arizona Juan Marinez: East Lansing, Michigan Guadalupe Quinn: Eugene, Oregon, CAUSA de Oregon Victor Ochoa: San Diego, California Magda Iriarte: Hickory, North Carolina Alondra Espejel and Mariano Espinoza, St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Immigrant Freedom NetworkThree. An Emerging Sense of Mutuality John Jensen: Melrose, Minnesota John and Peggy Stokman: Melrose, Minnesota Ángel Gnzález: Iowa City, Iowa José Elizondo: West Liberty, IowaFour. Confronting Threats to Community Raúl Raymundo: Chicago, Illinois, Resurrection Project Rogelio Núñez: Harlingen, Texas, Proyecto Libertad Yolanda Chávez Leyva: El Paso, Texas, University of Texas–El Paso Cecilia Brennan: San Diego, California Antonio Díaz, Oscar Grande, and Teresa Almaguer: San Francisco, California, People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER)Five. Asserting Rights José Ramón Sánchez: New York, New York, Long Island University Leticia Zavala: Dudley, North Carolina, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) Elizabeth García: Brownsville, Texas, Casa Digna Briana Stone, Gabby Garcia, Paulina Baca, and Valerie Noce: El Paso, Texas, Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project Mónica Hernández: San Ysidro, California, Casa Familiar Enrique Morones: San Diego, California, Border AngelsSix. Internal Migration Humberto Fuentes: Nampa, Idaho Efrain and Francesca Marinez: East Lansing, Michigan Dina Montes: New York, New YorkSeven. Living in the Borderlands Means . . . Jesse and Lupe Vega: El Paso, Texas Carlos Marentes: El Paso, Texas, Centro de los Trabajadores Agrícolas Fronterizos Verónica Carbajal: El Paso, Texas, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Ernesto Portillo: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Daily Star Manuel Velez: San Diego, California, San Diego Mesa CollegeConclusion: Nuestra América Ahora: Meditations on Latinoization, Citizenship, and BelongingNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex...
