The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer Ilan Stavans meditates on how the cross-fertilizing process that defined the Americas during the colonial period—the racial melding of Europeans and indigenous peoples—foretells the miscegenation that is the most salient profile of America today. If, as W.E.B. DuBois once argued, the twentieth century was defined by a color fracture at its core, Stavans believes the twenty-first will be shaped by a multi-color line that will make us all a sum of parts.
- ISBN10 1588382885
- ISBN13 9781588382887
- Publish Date 30 January 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint NewSouth, Incorporated
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 48
- Language English