| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders. By John Francis Burke. Foreword by Virgilio Elizondo. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. xv + 304 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

John Francis Burke argues that mestizaje is the basis for "a long-standing heritage of the U. S. Southwest that concretely illustrates how cultures can combine without any one necessarily becoming dominant or hegemonic" (p. 9). This optimistic book downplays the history of ethnic conflict in the West, and Burke argues against nativism in favor of "a substantive unity-in-diversity between the growing, not diminishing, cornucopia of cultural groups that make up the United States ..." (p. 10). He contends that the U. S. Southwest is now "the front line for articulating a just multicultural democracy," and while many of his concerns echo 1980s multiculturalism debates, Burke brings a theologian's training to what some might consider an exhausted discussion (p. 147). As he critiques the arguments of such scholars as Peter Brimelow and Charles Murray, the author responds with considerable care to the changing demography of the contemporary Southwest.

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