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Posted on: March 9th, 2006
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“I was re-reading my copy of Sam Quinones book True Tales from Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, The Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx when I began to think about my own ethnic origin and how I came to terms with such here in Bakersfield, California. True Tales is a book that in part talks about Bakersfield Latinos. Bonifacio Caballero, immigrant farmworker with a shared dream to return home to Nuevo Chupicuaro, a home he left in the 1960s only to return to year after year. It’s a home he frequently revisits as he was a Mexican immigrant with a simple dream to build in his homeland, to go live in Mexico for a few months each year. The rest of the year, he’s like thousands of other Latinos in America; the Mexican homes of those from the Southland that stay empty most of every year in such Mexican towns built on hard-earned American dollars.
As I put the book down I thought of my own Latino ethnic identity. For folks like Bonifacio, and others within Quinones study, the issue of ethnic identity is one of “who you are’ as a person, as a Mexican, as an Oaxacan, El Salvadorian, et. al. building some kind of life, and the issue is never ethnic origin””it’s how you live your days. The journalistic quest for Quinones and others was in finding “another Mexico’, one that exists differently from what the media, government and tourists say is out there. For someone like me who is half-Latino, the question of identity suddenly becomes mixed with the very idea of ethnic origin itself… it becomes not one of discovering another Mexico but in finding “What Mexico exists for those like me at all?””
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