Living in Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America - Softcover

"Spanglish is not only a lexicon but a state of mind that knows no boundaries, a kind of Yiddish rephrased by Cesar Chavez, with echoes deep into the past and ramifications everywhere in our centerless future." --Ilan Stavans, author of The Hispanic Condition and On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language

"Living in Spanglish freeze-frames the wave of Hispanic cultures, giving is its origins, its lines and curves, its diverse components, and finally, its course. And Morales does all this while riding within the belly of the wave itself." --Benicio del Toro, actor

"In Living in Spanglish, cultural engagement teams with progressive political savvy to make for some vibrant and thoughtful bilingual takes on the Latino implosion busily reshaping la cultura americana in our times." --Juan Flores, author of From Bomba to Hip-Hip: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity

"Living in Spanglish neatly captures dialectics of the contemporary Latino experience in ways that blend the eclectic with broad historical sweep. Its interplay of the marginal with the mainstream is a unique and useful approach that makes its narrative accessible to those not entirely familiar with things Latino, yet challenging to those who think they are." --Angelo Falcon, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund

"Impassioned . . . Poet and journalist Morales explores the difficulty of finding a definition for Latinos in the US." --Kirkus Reviews