La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials

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REVIEWS: 1. "Latinos have made and remade the state. In La Nueva California we have a book that does justice to the complexity of one of the great journeys in the American tradition." -Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Dean, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. 2. "In this book, we learn the unvarnished truth of yesterday, which helps to illuminate the unbridled path of tomorrow." -Carmela Castellano-Garcia, President and CEO, California Primary Care Association 3. "David E. Hayes-Bautista is able to foretell the future of a community that has always been a part of the success story of the United States and that is essential to its future." -Gabriela Teissier, journalist and news anchor, Univision 4. "Hayes-Bautista provides first-rate scholarship and analysis for understanding the vital role that Latinos have long played in shaping the fabric of our nation." -Kevin Richardson, Pepperdine University Graduate School of Public Policy and mayor, village of Lake Barrington, Illinois "Are Latinos American? Can Latinos ever be American? Do Latinos even want to be American? In 2000, I set out to answer those questions." "Yet since 1849, Latinos in California have proclaimed their adherence to a universalist vision of an America built on equality, freedom, and democracy, even when confronted by the nativist vision that has tried repeatedly to exclude them from the community of Americans. As of 2015, a Latino-post millennial born in the US turns eighteen approximately every thirty seconds, and officially enters adulthood. In those same thirty seconds, approximately two non-Hispanic whites die. The "habits of the Latino heart" are becoming an increasingly larger part of society, and the electorate, every day. The tug-of-war between nativist exclusiveness and universalist inclusion may well be decided by Latino post-millennials in the struggle for America's soul in the twenty-first century.