| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. By Juan Gonzalez. (New York: Viking, 2000. xx + 346 pp. Maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)

A great flood of Hispanic migration to the United States in recent years has led to a "Latinization" of the U. S. Juan Gonzalez, a veteran journalist employed by the New York Daily News and considered one of the most influential Hispanics in the U. S., expects a U. S. Hispanic population of 40,000,000 people by 2010. Latinos will become the largest minority group in the country; they already are the targets of hate and suspicion. 1

Harvest of Empire compares the U. S. government's efforts at stemming Mexican immigrants to building the Great Wall of China. Where 10,000 people are apprehended by the U. S. Border Patrol weekly, Gonzalez suspects that an equal number arrive illegally. Hispanic migration has become an endless stream, which is changing the relationship between the U. S. and Latin America. Since NAFTA, a tide of goods and capital began to move south toward maquiladoras (foreign industries established in Latin America), and an unstoppable flood of people began to head north for U. S. wages, a golden lure for poor Latinos. . . .

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