Praise for the Book

"With a unique combination of empirical data and theory, Santa Ana help us to raise, and often to answer, some of the critical questions about the present realities and possible futures of this increasingly troubled and conflict-ridden society."
—from the foreword by Joe R. Feagin , co-author of the recent book Liberation Sociology . Feagin is one of the major contemporary pioneers in scholarship on racial/ethnic relations, racism, and social justice. Author of over 40 books, Feagin is a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and twice a Gustavus Myers Human Rights Book Award winner.

"This highly significant contribution to scholarship in several fields—e.g. sociology, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, political studies, ethnic studies.... The combination of lucid and rational theory, rich data set, and carefully reasoned analysis results in an unusually powerful book."
— Ronald Schmidt Sr. , author of Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States

"This book does a formidable job in filling the lacunae of critical analysis of the public discourse about Latinos and Latino issues. I know of no book in the humanities or social sciences that provides anything close to the critical analysis offered by this one."
— Federico Subervi , Associate Professor of Radio/Television/Film, University of Texas at Austin

Brown Tide Rising "hit me like a sustained guitar note by our brother Carlos Santana, á la 'Samba Pa Ti.'"
— Roberto Carmona , John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University U.S. Departments of Labor and Housing & Urban Development