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Subtitle: defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States
By: Héctor Tobar.
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781594481765
Subjects: Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions; Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-349).
Table of contents: title: Americanismo: city of peasants: Los Angeles, California; title: Where green chiles roam: no es imposible: San Ysidro, California ; Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; title: Brother citizen, brother alien: sin fronteras: Watts, California ; Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico; title: The wanderers: el destierro: Ashland, Alabama ; McAllen, Texas ; Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico; title: In the land of the new: en la tierra de lo nuevo: Dalton, Georgia ; Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico ; Memphis, Tennessee; title: Our secret Latin heartlands: los secretos del machote: Rupert, Idaho ; Frankenmuth, Michigan ; Grand Island, Nebraska ; Liberal, Kansas; title: Unconquered: la reconquista: Cordova, New Mexico ; San Fernando, California ; San Antonio, Texas; title: The old men and the boy: los balseros: Miami, Florida; title: Fathers, daughters, citizens, and strongwomen: el hambre y el orgullo: Barstow, Los Angeles, Bell Gardens, Maywood, Watts, and South Gate, California; title: Una nación unida: heroes of another fatherland: El Reno, Oklahoma ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; New York, New York ; Baghdad, Iraq; title: Che and the three monkeys: che y los tres monos: La Higuera, Bolivia ; Buenos Aires, Argentina ; Los Angeles, California ; Ashland, Alabama.