| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

Felix Longoria's Wake: Bereavement, Racism, and the Rise of Mexican American Activism. By Patrick J. Carroll. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xviii, 270 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-292-71246-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-292-71249-9.)

The experience of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, the largest population of Latino people in the United States, is still, in most mainstream depictions, a minimalist outline of a vague Hispanic presence in the meta-narrative. Unlike the acknowledged and substantive integration of the story of African American society as a fundamental part of American history, Latinos are mostly sketchy attachments. While excellent Mexican American, Chicano, and/or Latino scholarship exists to provide correction of this serious oversight, it still seems to remain (in 2003) for Anglo (the Chicano and Mexican American term for European American) scholars to utilize it. Patrick J. Carroll has done so in his Felix Longoria's Wake.

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