Juan Hernández ’75
The New American Pioneers: Why Are We Afraid of Mexican Immigrants?, by Juan
Hernández ’75; foreword by Dick Morris. Paperback, 221 pages,
Pneuma Life Publishing, February 2006.
Juan Hernández, former head of Mexico’s Office for Mexicans Abroad
and founder of the Organization for Hispanic Advancement, has dedicated himself
to the study of Mexican-U.S. relations for many years. The first Mexican-American
to serve in the Mexican
president’s cabinet, he has been a professor at various universities and
created a Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies while on the faculty at the University
of Texas, Dallas.
In The New American Pioneers, Hernández urges America to rethink its relationship
to its southern neighbor and to embrace controlled immigration as necessary to
the overall economic and cultural health of both nations.
One reviewer has called it “a brilliant new book which redefines for all
of us what it means to be Americans.”
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