The Future Is Mestizo

by Elizondo, Virgilio P.; Cisneros, Sandra; Carrasco, David

• ISBN13: 9780870815768
• ISBN10: 0870815768
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

Twelve years after it was first published, The Future is Mestizo is now updated and revised with a new foreword, introduction, and epilogue. This book speaks to the largest demographic change in twentieth-century United States history -- the Latinization of music, religion, and culture.

Author Biography

Virgilio Elizondo is a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and University of California at Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Sandra Cisneros
Preface The Great Border	xiii
Introduction The Future Is Mestizo: We Are the Shades	xvii
David Carrasco
A Family of Migrants	1	(14)
My City	1	(2)
My Family	3	(7)
My Neighborhood and Parish	10	(5)
Who Am I?	15	(14)
Moving into a ``Foreign Land''	15	(2)
Acceptance, Belonging, and Affirmation	17	(3)
Experiences of Non-Being	20	(6)
Neither/Nor but Something New	26	(3)
A Violated People	29	(18)
The Masks of Suffering	29	(3)
The Eruption	32	(2)
The Eruption Continues	34	(4)
Going to the Roots	38	(9)
Marginality	47	(10)
Festive Breakthrough	48	(2)
Institutional Barriers	50	(4)
Invisible Mechanisms	54	(3)
My People Resurrect at Tepeyac	57	(10)
The Dawn of a New Day	57	(2)
From Death to New Life	59	(2)
First ``Evangelium'' of the Americas	61	(3)
Beginning of the New Race	64	(3)
Galilee of Mestizos	67	(20)
Is Human Liberation Possible?	67	(5)
Conquest or Birth	72	(2)
The Unimagined Liberation	74	(8)
From Margination to Unity	82	(5)
Toward Universal Mestizaje	87	(26)
From Unsuspected Limitations to Unsuspected Richness	89	(3)
A New Being: Universal and Local	92	(3)
Continued Migrations	95	(5)
Threshold of a New Humanity	100	(2)
The Ultimate Mestizaje	102	(11)
Epilogue: A Reflection Twelve Years Later	113	(12)
The Negative	125	(3)
The Challenge	128