In a world of hybrid cultures, there is room for everything except the dream of purity. It is the fear of impurity in our globalizing societies that links the reactionary ideology of political Islam with nativist anxiety. Abiding impurity is at the core of what liberal civilization is all about.
No one understands the impure mestizo future emerging in America better than Richard Rodriguez, who last book was entitled "Brown" -- the color of impurity.
He is also is the author of...
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