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...your lawyers, your investment bankers, your elected representatives, your professors, your judges. Latinos and Latinas are prominent and successful in medicine, business, academics, entertainment, science and sports. Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans and many others defend our way of life and the principles we all cherish by their generous service in the United States Armed Forces. In addition, many recent immigrants from south of the border work the jobs you don’t want, often several jobs at a time and care for their families in their struggle to conquer the American dream. And many, many succeed...
...over immigration” is untrue (News, “Critics Claim Huntington Is Xenophobic,” March 16). My book is not about immigration but about American national identity. Immigration clearly has played a role in shaping that identity, but Mexican immigration, which the article emphasizes, is dealt with in one chapter out of twelve. The book argues that Americans have historically defined their identity in terms of four major components: race (white) which involved the enslavement, subordination and segregation of blacks, the massacre of Indians and the exclusion of Asians; ethnicity...
...terms of oppression that caused them to flee their own native countries. But recent literature by Samuel P. Huntington, Harvard’s Weatherhead University Professor, has caught much of the Harvard community off-guard by disregarding this fundamental truth. Huntington’s critique of Latin American (particularly Mexican) immigration to the United States comes after a long history of anti-immigrant rhetoric on his part. However, his recent writings are most disturbing due to their lack of substantial evidence and thinly-veiled racism against non-Anglo-Protestants in America...
Huntington says Mexican immigrants have staked a territorial claim to the American Southwest—which Mexico controlled prior to 1848—in what he characterizes as a “reconquista,” or re-conquest...
...There is no Americano dream,” Huntington writes. “There is only the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society. Mexican-Americans will share in that dream and in that society only if they dream in English...