Translation Nation Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States

by Tobar, Hector

• ISBN13: 9781594481765
• ISBN10: 1594481768
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-04
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade

Summary

This is the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States-a parallel USA, 40 million strong, the largest minority group in the country-transforming the American Dream, reinventing the American community, and redefining the experience of the American immigrant in unprecedented and unexpected ways.

Author Biography

Hector Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He has also written for The New Yorker and LA Weekly, and his reporting is often syndicated nationally. He is also a novelist who has been nominated for the PEN Center USA West Award. Longtime National Latino Affairs Correspondent of the Los Angeles Times, Tobar now works as their Mexico City Bureau Chief.

Table of Contents

Part One Crossings
Americanismo · City of Peasants	3	(32)
Los Angeles, California
Where green chiles roam · No es imposible	35	(29)
San Ysidro, California
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Brother citizen, Brother Alien · Sin fronteras	64	(23)
Watts, California
Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico
Part Two Pioneers and Pilgrims
The wanderers · El destierro	87	(30)
Ashland, Alabama
McAllen, Texas
Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico
In The Land of The New · Enla tierra de lo nuevo	117	(31)
Dalton, Georgia
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Memphis, Tennessee
Our secret latin heartlands · Los secretos del machote	148	(41)
Rupert, Idaho
Frankenmuth, Michigan
Grand Island, Nebraska
Liberal, Kansas
Part Three Manifest destinies
Unconouered · La reconquista	189	(54)
Cordova, New Mexico
San Fernando, California
San Antonio, Texas
The old men and the Boy · Los balseros	243	(54)
Miami, Florida
Fathers, Daughters, Citizens, and Strongwomen · Elhambre y el orgullo
Barstow, Los Angeles, Bell Gardens, Maywood, Watts, and South Gate, California
Part Four E Pluribus Unum
Una nacion unida · Heroes of Another Fatherland	297	(34)
El Reno, Oklahoma
San Juan, Puerto Rico
New York, New York
Baghdad, Iraq
Epilogue: CHE AND THE THREE MONKEYS · Chey y los tres monos	331	(12)
La Higuera, Bolivia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Los Angeles, California
Ashland, Alabama
Acknowledgments	343	(4)
Notes	347