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American Library Association
Fox has done field work in Latin America, worked as a community organizer, teacher, and researcher in Puerto Rico, Chicago, and New York City, and written studies of Venezuela and Argentina for young readers and a short-story collection (Welcome to My Contri, 1992 reprint) about relations between Anglo and Hispanic Americans (the latter include his partner and sons). Hispanic Nation explores many factors, from media and culture to local and national politics, drawing Americans with roots in Central or South America or the Caribbean to recognize themselves as "Hispanics" and involve themselves in shaping the meaning, agenda, and place of Hispanics at the political table of those who share this identity. Despite the ethnic, racial, religious, and political differences that divide them, the statistical fiction that lumps "persons of Spanish-Hispanic origin or descent" into a single category is the basis for a key identity shift : a shift with important consequences for all Americans because, in merging their separate national backgrounds into a new identity, Hispanic Americans are inevitably challenging rigid black-and-white definitions of what it means to be an American. Mary Carroll
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From the Author
Invitation to a dialogue on emerging identity
The imagined community of US "Hispanics" or "Latinos," with its TV networks & Spanish-language press, political coalitions, professional and community associations and artists, is on its way to becoming America's most powerful ethnic group. I especially welcome comments from readers who are themselves part, or potentially part, of this new community, on how we got here, where we go from here, and what this force will mean for other minorities and for the country as a whole.
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