Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the….

My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an upside-down planet, pineapple-….

My grandmother would always tell me that I was hers, that I was Mexican. That was her role. It was not my teacher's role to tell me I was Mexican. It….

It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. ….

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There….

Learning can cause social fracture. Your people start expressing themselves..

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want….

The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grad….

The myth of the dead Indian goes back to the Protestant settlement of the U.S. The Pilgrims wanted to start a new life in America. They wanted to bel….

I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman pulls you off to the side of the road, you ha….

In some countries, of course, Spanish is the language spoken in public. But for many American children whose families speak Spanish at home, it becom….

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home..

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers..

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You….

In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy white time. Brown was like th….

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers..

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America..

So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the w….

There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San Diego worries about all the t….

The average age in the U.S. is now thirty-three, whereas Mexico gets younger and younger, retreats deeper and deeper into adolescence. Mexico is fift….

Most American Hispanics don't belong to one race, either. I keep telling kids that, when filling out forms, they should put "yes" to everything - yes….