Samuel P. Huntington: “The Hispanic Challenge”

A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources

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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306856.book-part-147

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Abstract

Hispanic immigration into the United States, primarily from Mexico, has created in immigrant communities a duality—as the African American philosopher W. E. B. Du Bois once put it, a sense of “double consciousness.” Mexican Americans have long been forced to grapple with their identities as both Mexican and American. Many Mexican Americans over the years have formed communities in which they can maintain their Mexican identity while also challenging anti-immigration legislation that threatens their communities and their families. The 1990s saw a wave of immigration from Mexico and, as a result, anti-immigration legislation, such as California’s Proposition 187, to curtail the rights of immigrants.