; Contents; Foreword; Cisneros; Sandra; Preface The Great Border; Introduction The Future Is Mestizo: We Are the Shades; Carrasco; David; 1; A Family of Migrants; My City; My Family; My Neighborhood and Parish; 2; Who Am I?; Moving into a "Foreign Land"; Acceptance, Belonging, and Affirmation; Experiences of Non-Being; Neither/Nor but Something New; 3; A Violated People; The Masks of Suffering; The Eruption; The Eruption Continues; Going to the Roots; 4; Marginality; Festive Breakthrough; Institutional Barriers; Invisible Mechanisms; 5; My People Resurrect at Tepeyac; The Dawn of a New Day; From Death to New Life; First "Evangelium" of the Americas; Beginning of the New Race; 6; Galilee of Mestizos; Is Human Liberation Possible?; Conquest or Birth; The Unimagined Liberation; From Margination to Unity; 7; Toward Universal Mestizaje; From Unsuspected Limitations to Unsuspected Richness; A New Being: Universal and Local; Continued Migrations; Threshold of a New Humanity; The Ultimate Mestizaje; Epilogue:; A Reflection Twelve Years Later; The Negative; The Challenge;