contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Latinoization of the U.S. and "Our" National Culture -- One. Leaving: Home Is No Longer Home -- Gloria Caballero: Amherst, Massachusetts -- Luis: Northeastern U.S. -- Guillermo Sánchez Vasa: New York, New York -- Fernando: Boise, Idaho -- Two. The Crucible of Change and Adaptation -- Adela Marmion: Tucson, Arizona -- Juan Marinez: East Lansing, Michigan -- Guadalupe Quinn: Eugene, Oregon, CAUSA de Oregon -- Victor Ochoa: San Diego, California -- Magda Iriarte: Hickory, North Carolina -- Mariano Espinoza and Alondra Kiawitl Espejel, St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network -- Three. An Emerging Sense of Mutuality -- John Jensen: Melrose, Minnesota -- Peggy and John Stokman: Melrose, Minnesota -- Ángel González: Ames, Iowa -- José Elizondo: West Liberty, Iowa -- Four. Confronting Threats to Community -- Raúl Raymundo: Chicago, Illinois, Resurrection Project -- Rogelio Núñez: Harlingen, Texas, Proyecto Libertad -- Yolanda Chávez Leyva: El Paso, Texas, University of Texas-El Paso -- Cecilia Brennan: Escondido, California -- Antonio Díaz, Oscar Grande, and Teresa Almaguer: San Francisco, California, People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER) -- Five. Asserting Rights -- José Ramón Sánchez: New York, New York, Long Island University -- Leticia Zavala: Dudley, North Carolina, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) -- Elizabeth García: Brownsville, Texas, Casa Digna -- Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project Staff : El Paso, Texas -- Mónica Hernández: San Ysidro, California, Casa Familiar -- Enrique Morones: San Diego, California, Border Angels -- Six. Internal Migration -- Humberto Fuentes: Nampa, Idaho -- Efrain and Francisca Marinez: East Lansing, Michigan -- Dina Montes: New York, New York -- Seven. Living in the Borderlands Means . . .

Lupe and Jesse Vega: El Paso, Texas -- Carlos Marentes: El Paso, Texas, Centro de los Trabajadores Agrícolas Fronterizos -- Verónica Carbajal: El Paso, Texas, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid -- Ernesto Portillo: Tucson, Arizona, Arizona Daily Star -- Manuel Vélez: San Diego, California, San Diego Mesa College -- Conclusion: Nuestra América Ahora: Meditations on Latinoization, Citizenship, and Belonging -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.