Americanos: Latino Life in the United States. by Lea Ybarra; Preface by Edward James Olmos; Introduction by Carlos Fuentes - 1999.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition, Fourth Printing Glossy Pictorial Wraps AS NEW in WRAPS 4to (9-1/4 x 11-3/4), 176 pp including Biographies of all contributors -- writers, Editors, Photographers, and Photo Editors. Paperbound book is FINE -- Unmarked, Unread, and AS NEW in glossy pictorial wraps, also AS NEW. (h) Bi-lingual texts of poetry and essays accompany brilliant views of the wide diversity of lives of Latin Americans who live in the United States. Photographs are done by a stellar array of more than 30 award-winning photographers and look intensely at lives at work, at play, at churches from New York to the Rio Grande, "Americanos" of many nationalities -- Cuban, Panamanian, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Argentinean, and more. The drawing of an arbitrary line called a border and a history dominated by Spanish-speaking colonialists, make it difficult to see that these are Native Americans, North and South. Brilliantly done. B8