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Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds
Gregory Rodriguez
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Pantheon
November 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0375421580
EAN: 9780375421587
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Wide-ranging and provocative, Mongrels, Bastards,
Orphans, and Vagabonds offers an unprecedented account
of the long-term cultural and political influences that
Mexican Americans will have on the collective character of
our nation.
In considering the largest immigrant
group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the
complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural
synthesis--mestizaje--that has defined the Mexican
people since the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century.
Rodriguez deftly delineates the effects of mestizaje
throughout the centuries, traces the northern movement of
this "mongrelization," explores the emergence of a new
Mexican American identity in the 1930s, and analyzes the
birth and death of the Chicano movement. Vis-a-vis the
present era of Mexican American confidence, he persuasively
argues that the rapidly expanding Mexican American
integration in to the mainstream is changing not only how
Americans think about race but how we envision our
nation.
Deeply informative--as historically sound as
it is anecdotally rich, brilliantly reasoned, and highly
though provoking--Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and
Vagabonds is a major contribution to the discussion of
the cultural and political future of the United States.
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