Controversial Book Portrays Mexican-Americans in Unflattering Light
Glendale, CA, February 23, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Controversial sequel to Clipping Their Own Wings book perched to take on the politically-incorrect view of the largest minority in the United States.
As the national elections have recently shown, the issue of race and culture are still at the forefront of American consciousness. With propitious timing, and within the summer break during which to ignite college students’ intellectual fires, a provocative new book is bound to turn up on professors’ required reading lists. The just-released Mexican-American Mind, by published author Ernesto Caravantes, explores the tawdry cultural world of Mexican-Americans. If there were ever a book which boldly goes where no politically-correct pundit would venture, this is it.
Picking up where Caravantes’ first book, Clipping Their Own Wings, left off, the author presents a collection of thoughtful and controversial essays on the Mexican-American culture. Caravantes’ delves into a no-man’s land by showing the inner workings and machinations of the most beleaguered ethnic group in American society. From gender roles, modes of dress, chauvinistic attitudes, and religious hypocrisy, Caravantes presents each chapter as a different "slice of life" of Mexican-Americans.
The author, himself a Latino, reveals the unflattering truths about this culture from the vantage point that only a Mexican-American can provide. He finally brings into the full light of day that which has been tacitly and implicitly known by many people for a long time to be true, but never fully articulated or expressed in public. It is a refreshingly honest view which reveals the necessary self-examination which any culture wanting to improve itself would want to understand. In the hyper-sensitive cultural climate in which we live, The Mexican-American Mind expresses the knowledge which, in the final analysis, allows all of us to laugh at ourselves. We are then able to fully acknowledge the lunacies which exist in nearly all cultures.
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As the national elections have recently shown, the issue of race and culture are still at the forefront of American consciousness. With propitious timing, and within the summer break during which to ignite college students’ intellectual fires, a provocative new book is bound to turn up on professors’ required reading lists. The just-released Mexican-American Mind, by published author Ernesto Caravantes, explores the tawdry cultural world of Mexican-Americans. If there were ever a book which boldly goes where no politically-correct pundit would venture, this is it.
Picking up where Caravantes’ first book, Clipping Their Own Wings, left off, the author presents a collection of thoughtful and controversial essays on the Mexican-American culture. Caravantes’ delves into a no-man’s land by showing the inner workings and machinations of the most beleaguered ethnic group in American society. From gender roles, modes of dress, chauvinistic attitudes, and religious hypocrisy, Caravantes presents each chapter as a different "slice of life" of Mexican-Americans.
The author, himself a Latino, reveals the unflattering truths about this culture from the vantage point that only a Mexican-American can provide. He finally brings into the full light of day that which has been tacitly and implicitly known by many people for a long time to be true, but never fully articulated or expressed in public. It is a refreshingly honest view which reveals the necessary self-examination which any culture wanting to improve itself would want to understand. In the hyper-sensitive cultural climate in which we live, The Mexican-American Mind expresses the knowledge which, in the final analysis, allows all of us to laugh at ourselves. We are then able to fully acknowledge the lunacies which exist in nearly all cultures.
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