Other Face of America Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future

Name: Other Face of America Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future
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ISBN: 9780060938246

ISBN-10: 0060938242

ISBN-13: 9780060938246

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Authors: Jorge Ramos

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Immigrants in America are at the heart of what makes this country the most prosperous and visionary in the world. Writing from his own heartfelt perspective as an immigrant, Jorge Ramos, one of the world's most popular and well-respected Spanish-language television news broadcasters, listens to and explores stories of dozens of immigrants who decided to change their lives and risk everything -- families, jobs, history, and their own culture -- in order to pursue a better, freer, and opportunity-filled future in the United States. In his famously clear voice, Jorge Ramos brings to life the tales of individuals from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, among other countries,…

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List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Jorge Ramos has won eight Emmy Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Award for excellence in journalism. He has been the anchorman for Univision News for the last twenty-one years and has appeared on NBC's Today , CNN's Talk Back Live , ABC's Nightline , CBS's Early Show , and Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor , among others. He is the bestselling author of No Borders: A Journalist's Search for Home and Dying to Cross . He lives in Florida.Jorge Ramos ha sido el conductor de Noticiero Univision desde 1986. Ha ganado siete premios Emmy y el premio Maria Moors Cabot por excelencia en perio dismo otorgado por la Universidad de Columbia. Ademï¿½s ha sido invitado a varios de los mï¿½s importantes…



Acknowledgments


Introduction


From the South to the North: Stories of Mexican Immigrants



The Border



Amelia and San Guivi



Falsifying the Future



A Day without a Mexican



Aspen for the Undocumented



Matamoros, New York



The Raid



Nannies



The Reconquest of California



The Indispensable



From Chicago with Skepticism



The Betrayal (or How the Votes of 10 Million Mexicans Were Stolen)



Angel, "The Discriminated One"



Heliodoro's Letters



The Mexican Girl Who Wrote to President Clinton


We Come from Everywhere



Elian: His First 150 Days in the United States



Cuba Entrenched in Miami



Lazaro: A Dissident in Exile



Central Americans: From Wars, Laws, and Hurricanes



Vieques and What It Means to Be Puerto Rican



Puerto Dominicans and New Dominicans



The New Colombian Exodus



The Muddy Shoes of Venezuela


Life in the United States



Nostalgia, Aromas, and Tacos



The Call



The Rediscovery of Hispanics



California Is the Future



Loretta and the Voters' Revenge



Accomplices of the Undocumented



The Labyrinth



The Metedolares



What Immigrants Contribute to the United States


Racism



Julian Samora and the Dogs



John Rocker--Face-to-Face with a Racist



How to Kill an Immigrant and Get Away with It



Video Justice


Spanglish



Long Live Spanglish!



The Future of Spanish in the United States



The Spanglish Professor


The American Dream



Why Marta Wants to Leave Mexico



Soccer Children



La Vida Loca



Chef Cristino



The American Dream--Mexican Style (or Maria Amparo's Santitos)


Our Future



Am I an Immigrant, Papa?



Amnesty



July 1, 2059


Epilogue


Where Are They Now?