"Like the Chinese dicho, we are blessed to be living in interesting times, on the border of the new mestizaje. As one member of this exciting movimento nudging and being nudged into the future, I am delighted to have discovered this book. I have seen the new millennium and the future is us."- Sandra Cisneros

• ; Contents; Foreword; Cisneros; Sandra; Preface The Great Border; Introduction The Future Is Mestizo: We Are the Shades; Carrasco; David; 1; A Family of Migrants; My City; My Family; My Neighborhood and Parish; 2; Who Am I?; Moving into a "Foreign Land"; Acceptance, Belonging, and Affirmation; Experiences of Non-Being; Neither/Nor but Something New; 3; A Violated People; The Masks of Suffering; The Eruption; The Eruption Continues; Going to the Roots; 4; Marginality; Festive Breakthrough; Institutional Barriers; Invisible Mechanisms; 5; My People Resurrect at Tepeyac; The Dawn of a New Day; From Death to New Life; First "Evangelium" of the Americas; Beginning of the New Race; 6; Galilee of Mestizos; Is Human Liberation Possible?; Conquest or Birth; The Unimagined Liberation; From Margination to Unity; 7; Toward Universal Mestizaje; From Unsuspected Limitations to Unsuspected Richness; A New Being: Universal and Local; Continued Migrations; Threshold of a New Humanity; The Ultimate Mestizaje; Epilogue:; A Reflection Twelve Years Later; The Negative; The Challenge;