Many books deal with New Mexico's past, but the twelve original
essays here reinterpret that history for the first time from a
Chicano perspective. Self-determination, resistance, and cultural
maintenance are the recurring themes in the lives and struggles of
Nuevomexicanos from 1848 to the present. On a more fundamental
level, the clash has been over modernisation -- how the Spanish
language, folk traditions, and land grants can survive as a
heritage for future generations amid English, new and secular
values, and real estate booms and speculation. Nuevomexicanos have
confronted colonialism, ethnocentrism, and racism throughout their
history. But as these essays make clear, pride in Spanish descent
runs deep in New Mexico and has led to a vibrancy unmatched in any
other region in the United States. Nuevomexicanos have not simply
survived or endured. They have secured their influence through the
highest level of education among all Chicanos in the United States,
through greater political representation at the local and national
level-and in both major parties-than in any other state, and
through a culture that has simultaneously resisted and adapted to
change.
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