Latino Sun, Rising : Our Spanish-Speaking U.S. World.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Sol Naciente: Youth -- Urban Renewal on the Hometown Block in Edinburg -- South Padre, Isla del Padre Ballí -- Largest Texas Shrine -- The Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi -- Solo -- Sol Ardiente: Parenthood -- Voices, Desires Being Wishful -- Education -- Puerto Rico or Houston -- Apples after School, and the Alamo -- Harvard Visit -- Fishing at the Point in Seabrook -- An Aztec Reverie -- Mi Tierra in San Antonio -- Indian Trails and the Texas A&M/UT Presidential Corridor -- Among Mullets, One Galveston Summer -- Disney World Florida Trip -- The Rain-Blessed Mountains of Costa Rica -- Projecting Consciousness in Maximum Security -- Evoking Rimsky-Korsakov on the Eve of a Move -- Leaving the NASA Johnson Space Center Neighbors -- Rio Grande Valley Meditation -- Showdown across the Border in Reynosa -- Sol Radiante: Public Policy Issues -- On Seeing Giant, after Avoiding the Film Many Years -- Words for Better Lives -- Reinventing Ourselves -- Race Should Not Matter -- Affirmative Action -- Diversity Is Natural -- On the Theory of Bilingual Education -- Latin America and the United States and Mexico -- Heat, Undocumented Workers, and the Border Patrol -- Luis Alfonso Torres, the Mexican Rodney King -- NAFTA and the Maquiladora Babies -- A Realization and a Memory in Southmost Texas -- Latino Voting and Election Promises -- Batos Locos -- El Día de los Muertos in the United States -- Regarding a Mexican Imerican Holiday -- War in Iraq -- Thanksgiving Idyll -- The Idea of a Mexican American/Latino Exhibit -- A New Language -- Year-End Thoughts -- What Latinos Want.

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