Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Gonzalez Juan

Author:Gonzalez, Juan [Gonzalez, Juan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101589946
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2011-05-31T00:00:00+00:00

TABLE 6

STATES WITH MORE THAN 40% MINORITY POPULATION IN 200854

Hispanic political leaders who fully grasp this demographic transformation, and who refuse to fall into the ever-recurring black-white divide on racial issues or to be taken for granted as a preserve of the Democratic Party, will succeed in turning the Hispanic voter, along with the growing number of Asian American voters, into the basis of a new interracial coalition, or “Third Force,” in American political life. Such a Third Force movement would seek to build a genuinely multiracial, multiethnic civic majority. Its aim would be not just getting more people to vote, but getting them to participate actively in social and civic institutions, creating space and voice for citizens of all races and ethnic groups. Because such a coalition would reach out to those who so far have been alienated and disenfranchised, it would necessarily change the terms of national debate, providing an alternative to the corporate-conservative minority that has financed and run both major political parties throughout our nation’s modern history.

By building such a coalition to renew American politics, the descendants of Juan Seguín will not merely reclaim their role in American history, they will rewrite it.

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