Table of Contents
Which Is Worse? xiii
Prologue 1
Introduction 7
1 The First Brown President 14
2 Hawkeye State Somalis: The Illogic of Recent Immigration Policies 32
3 The Storm Along the Border 48
4 The Hispanic Consumer: The New Engine of American Commerce 67
5 How Brown is my Valley: How Hispanics Will Save Social Security 80
6 Reverse Migration: When the Building Stopped 89
7 A Hogar is Not a Home: How Aspiration, Greed and Failed Assumptions Bankrupted the Latino American Dream 102
8 Ending the Education Siesta: Because if We Don't, Nothing Else Matters 114
9 The (not so) Foreign Legion: The Latinization of America's Military 140
10 The Boy Scouts Get It: The Importance of Latinos to U.S. Institutions 166
11 Hispanics and the New Union Movement 174
12 Disfrute: Hispanic Impact on the Multibillion-dollar Style, Fashion, Arts and Entertainment Industries 185
13 The Spanish Republicans: The Party of Lost Opportunity 192
14 After Castro: Relations with Cuba and Latin America in the Twenty-first Century 204
15 Béisbol: How Latinos Took Over America's Favorite Pastime 222
16 Mutts Like Us: The Impact of Intermarriage on Latino Political Power 233
17 Spanglish: The Rapid Spread of the World's Newest Language 244
Conclusion: The Shared Destiny of America and Her Latino Population 249
