Hispanic
Subtitle: why Americans fear Hispanics in the U.S.
By: Geraldo Rivera
Edition: Updated.
Publisher: Celebra
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780451226099
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Social aspects; Illegal aliens; Latin Americans; Immigration and emigration
Other titles: His panic
Description: Journalist Rivera examines the growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S., fueled partly by what may be the single most divisive issue in America today: illegal immigration. With objective clarity and personal conviction, Rivera sheds light on an issue that is muddled with confusion and prejudice--and too often blamed for everything from terrorism to welfare. Examining the past--his own parents' struggle to be "real" Americans, as well as the plight of other ethnic groups in their quest for that dream--Rivera places the issue of illegal immigration in a historic context, dispelling the myth that we are facing an unprecedented crisis.--From publisher description.
Notes: "Updated with a new foreword"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Latino rising --; title: Preface: Welcome to America -- -- 1.; title: Proud to be an American -- -- 2.; title: Probing the panic -- -- 3.; title: The threat to America's traditional identity -- -- 4.; title: The new Hispanic America, from sea to shining sea -- -- 5.; title: Will Hispanic Americans be like French Quebec? -- -- 6.; title: Importing terror -- -- 7.; title: Immigrants and disease -- -- 8.; title: Immigrants and crime -- -- 9.; title: Hispanic gangs -- -- 10.; title: Do Hispanics and other immigrants steal our jobs? -- -- 11.; title: Saint Cesar and the immigrants -- -- 12.; title: Anchor babies -- -- 13.; title: Immigrants and the church -- -- 14.; title: Heroes and deportees -- -- 15.; title: The other side history -- -- 16.; title: The threat of the two-party system --; title: Conclusion : An emancipation proclamation for the new century.