The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition |
The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet, Revised Edition
University Press of Colorado
2000
136 pages
8.2 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
Paper ISBN:978-0-87081-576-8
Virgilio Elizondo (1935-2016), Professor of Pastoral and Hispanic Theology; Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies and Kellogg Institute
Notre Dame University
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.
Contents
- Foreword by Sandra Cisneros
- Preface The Great Border
- Introduction The Future Is Mestizo: We Are the Shades by David Carrasco
- 1. A Family of Migrants
- My City
- My Family
- My Neighborhood and Parish
- 2. Who Am I?
- Moving into a “Foreign Land”
vAcceptance, Belonging, and Affirmation - Experiences of Non-Being
- Neither/Nor but Something New
- Moving into a “Foreign Land”
- 3. A Violated People
- The Masks of Suffering
- The Eruption
- The Eruption Continues
- Going to the Roots
- 4. Marginality
- Festive Breakthrough
- Institutional Barriers
- Invisible Mechanisms
- 5. My People Resurrect at Tepeyac
- The Dawn of a New Day
- From Death to New Life
- First “Evange!ium” of the Americas
- Beginning of the New Race
- 6. Galilee of Mestizos
- Is Human Liberation Possible?
- Conquest or Birth
- The Unimagined Liberation
- From Margination to Unity
- 7. Toward Universal Mestizaje
- From Unsuspected Limitations to Unsuspected Richness
- A New Being: Universal and Local
- Continued Migrations
- Threshold of a New Humanity
- The Ultimate Mestizaje
- Epilogue: A Reflection Twelve Years Later
- The Negative
- The Challenge