The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition [Paperback]

Virgilio P. Elizondo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2000

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.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado; Rev Sub edition (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870815768
• ISBN-13: 978-0870815768
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #525,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edi, August 1, 2000

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ellensden "living in Dallas, Texas" (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition (Paperback)

The Reverend Father Elizondo presents his native San Antonio as a vibrant bilingual and multicultural city in central Texas on the frontier of the United States and Mexico. He recalls the history of New Spain and how Americans from the east viewed the northern lands of Mexico. From this divide comes a new mestizo, mix, as the Reverend Elizondo poignantly conveys Jesus's life as that of mestizo, a Jew whose very birth was questioned by his mother's people. Our world's history, especially European, is a mixture of people, or, loosely used, mestizo, and so will be our world's future the Reverend Elizondo brilliantly reminds the reader.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Future is Mestizo: Life where Cultures Meet, September 22, 2010

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This review is from: The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition (Paperback)

I give this book my highest recommendation. It tells a story which the United States of America MUST hear. It calls many of us to come out of our ignorance and look at the historical facts. It is probably more timely today than when it was first written.

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3.0 out of 5 stars In response to Delia Perez's complaint, May 25, 2007

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This review is from: The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition (Paperback)

The item description CLEARLY states that the foreword was written by Cisneros. Nowhere does it say that she is the author. Also, the picture of the cover CLEARLY states the same thing. Plus, you don't request a refund from amazon by posting a complaint in the review section. Geez.