Professor explores ‘Latino-ization’ on bicycle - Louis Mendoza

El Paso received a visit from a cross-continental traveler last weekend.

Louis Mendoza, the chair of the department of Chicano studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, set out for a bicycle tour of the country in July, starting out of Santa Cruz, Calif., and going clockwise. He arrived in El Paso on Thanksgiving and left this morning. His goal is to gauge people’s perspectives on what he calls the “Latino-ization” of the United States.

Just a month short of the end of his trip, Mendoza said that what struck him was the number of Hispanics present even in smaller towns across the country, their entrepreneurial spirit and “how well we’re all getting along,” despite the rhetoric.”*

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