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History, legend and myth all coincide in The Alamo. Heart-wrenching, dramatic, yet with a hint of humor, the film depicts two of the most famous battles of the Mexican-American war: the Siege of the Alamo in 1836 and the succeeding Battle of San Jacinto...
...asked two of the most respected scholars on Mexican-American affairs, Peter Skerry of Boston College and Rodolfo de la Garza of Columbia University, what they thought of Huntington's piece. Skerry, author of the widely admired 1995 book Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority, praised Huntington for addressing an important issue. But, said Skerry, "he pushes things too far. On questions of loyalty and the adoption of American democratic values, the evidence is that we don't have a problem [with Mexican immigrants] up to now." Skerry sent me a paper on the Resurrection Project, a faith-based organization...
...When I put to Huntington some figures that challenged his thesis, he said, "I don't think any of these issues are black and white." A central purpose of his article, he said, was to promote a "reasoned national discussion" on Mexican immigration. Fine. Trouble is, recent history suggests that such a rational debate is unlikely to occur...
...think of this column as a pre-emptive strike to stop the same thing from happening again. Huntington's claim that Mexican Americans don't assimilate should not be accepted without challenge. (If George Will quotes from Huntington on Sunday-morning TV, my attempt will have failed.) And the media should stop treating clever but flawed scholarship as if it were Holy Writ, especially if an academic argument seems to question the patriotism of good people. You shouldn't do that lightly, with or without dense footnotes...
Rogers said she never earned more than $35,000 a year as an environmental activist in Texas. She directed a group fighting against a nuclear waste dump on the Mexican border, and later worked for the state chapter of the Sierra Club...