Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (Citizenship and Migration in the Americas) Review

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Tierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (Citizenship and Migration in the Americas) ReviewTierra y Libertad: Land, Liberty, and Latino Housing (Hardcover)My people are from Tierra Amarilla, and the Olivas Homestead is in Brazos, New Mexico, hard by Tierra Amarilla, so I know these stories gathered by Professor Steven Bender. Even today, there is a sign along the road to Santa Fe south, that reads Tierra or Muerte (Land or Death). Given all the discussion in the public polity about mortgages, tax exemptions for homeowners, and foreclosures, Professor Bender has put names and faces onto these anonymous tragedies, at the micro level. Anyone familiar with the longstanding abrogation practices of U.S. treaties, especially with its indigenous people, knows that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was observed in the breach, and is a classic example of theft, governmental perfidy, and greed. Bender's work illuminates this history, and points to longstanding public policies that have played themselves out, especially in the post-WWII period to the present. He also covers ground almost completely unplowed, by differentiating between the treatment of citizen Latinos and the undocumented. This is yet another trajectory between these related people where the commonalities are more evident and pronounced than the differences. While some of these issues seem intractable, as the current crisis may seem to many, Bender has pointed out the important issues, thoroughly discussed and vetted them, and makes suggestions that seem reasonable--whether for Latinos or all Americans. Ironically, the undocumented and Latinos generally, many of them poor, once again may save the US from its own excesses; if comprehensive immigration reform does come, as it must, it will be these communities who save the day.
Michael A. Olivas
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