The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer Ilan Stavans meditates on how the cross-fertilizing process that defined the Americas during the colonial period-the racial melding of Europeans and indigenous peoples-foretells the miscegenation that is the most salient profile of America today. If, as W.E.B. DuBois once argued, the twentieth century was defined by a color fracture at its core, Stavans believes the twenty-first will be shaped by a multi-color line that will make us all a sum of parts.
| ISBN: | 9781588382887 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 2013 |
| Author: | Ilan Stavans |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Books an imprint of University of Georgia Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 37 pages |
| Genres: |
Social discrimination and equal treatment Migration, immigration and emigration Population and demography General and world history |