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A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.
LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise 20 percent of the US population, a number that is growing. By 2050, census reports project that one in every three Americans will claim Latino heritage.
But Latinos are not a monolith. They do not represent a single group. The largest numbers are Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Cubans. Each has a different cultural and political background. Puerto Ricans, for example, are US citizens, whereas some Mexican Americans never immigrated because the US-Mexico border shifted after the US invasion of 1848, incorporating what is now the entire southwest of the United States. Cubans came in two great waves: those escaping communism in the early years of Castro, many of whom were professionals and wealthy, and those permitted to leave in the Mariel boat lift twenty years later, representing some of the poorest Cubans, including prisoners.
As LatinoLand shows, Latinos were some of the earliest immigrants to what is now the US--some of them arriving in the 1500s. They are racially diverse--a random fusion of White, Black, Indigenous, and Asian. Once overwhelmingly Catholic, they are becoming increasingly Protestant and Evangelical. They range from domestic workers and day laborers to successful artists, corporate CEOs, and US senators. Formerly solidly Democratic, they now vote Republican in growing numbers. They are as varied culturally as any immigrants from Europe or Asia.
Marie Arana draws on her own experience as the daughter of an American mother and Peruvian father who came to the US at age nine, straddling two worlds, as many Latinos do. LatinoLand unabashedly celebrates Latino resilience and character and shows us why we must understand the fastest-growing minority in America.
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The celebrated Arana (Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, 2019) unpacks one of the most contentious demographic categories in the U.S. by examining race, religion, politics, and professions among Latinos. Beginning with her own story of migration, which took her from her birthplace of Peru to New Jersey, Arana widens the aperture and dials back time, all the way to the first Latino to set foot on Manhattan in 1613, a Dominican named Juan Rodriguez. Arana's keen grasp of history and incisive writing bring each chapter to life, whether she's calling out the CIA for its role in seeding coups across Latin America or connecting the casta paintings of colonial Mexico to the frustrating inadequacy of contemporary census forms. Arana also zooms in on everyday individuals who embody the contradictions of Latino identity, such as Isabella Do-Orozco, an undergraduate student at MIT, who identifies as an Asian Latina and doesn't feel completely at home in either culture. Other examples include celebrities, among them Anna Taylor-Joy, a blonde, light-skinned actress of Argentine heritage. In her sympathetic snapshots and deeply researched reporting, Arana tells a compelling story of Latinos as "mutable, uncertain creatures, protean in our very selves--the bewildered offspring of centuries of cross-fertilization and chance."
Table of Contents
Author's Note: We of No Name | xi |
Part I Origin Stories | 1 |
1 Arrivals | 3 |
2 The Price of Admission | 29 |
3 Forerunners | 56 |
Part II Turf and Skin | 81 |
4 Why They Left, Where They Went | 83 |
5 Shades of Belonging | 113 |
6 The Color Line | 146 |
Part III Souls | 171 |
7 The God of Conquest | 173 |
8 The Gods of Choice | 203 |
Part IV How We Think, How We Work | 237 |
9 Mind-sets | 239 |
10 Muscle | 274 |
Part V How We Shine | 317 |
11 Changemakers | 319 |
12 Limelight | 358 |
Epilogue: Unity | 391 |
Acknowledgments | 401 |
Notes | 405 |
Index | 525 |