i first moved to san diego and there was a great disaster his name was leonard deloria. in order in paris in san dieg ao i guess because when i moved here in the '90s it was very conservative and he had to miss pronounce his name to pass. it's not perez. so i'm texting them in the world series, he didn't respond but that comes from the need. just today a student turned in some work to me. they were talking about the description of the hispanic holiday. it's not a hispanic holiday, it is a mexican holiday. but this becomes a pejorative in the american mass culture so people feel i don't want to hurt his feelings. he is latino or hispanic. no, i'm a mexican american. actually mexican sicilian american which complicates things. that these efforts to water down this american context is absurd we are the largest population of immigrants now in the united states. americans of mexican descent. and i'm all for specificity as well and not apologizing for being mexicano. i want to contest the book is highly autobiographical so there are some parts about what i suffered through in