Mestizo: The History, Culture and Politics of the Mexican and the Chicano --The Emerging Mestizo-Americans

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This text covers over 2,000 years, tracing the roots of the contemporary Mexican-American. It utilizes the fields of history, political science, cultural anthropology, folklore, literature, sociolinguistics, Latin American studies and ethnic studies. Thus, it is unique for its multidisciplinary approach which probes into the past of the underclassthe exploited Native-American, Campesino and Mexican-American. It presents, therefore, an insider's view of the history, culture and politics of the Mestizo/Mestiza as an underclass. Most important, it presents a new perspective that invalidates the current Spanish/European and Western interpretation of Native-American reality.

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Arnoldo Carlos Vento is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin.