The story of how Chicanos or Mexican American Indo-Hispanic mestizos, came to America more than five hundred years ago and are active contributors to the American future.

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There is a group of Americans with deep roots in Mexico, Spain, the United States and medieval Europe reaching back a thousand years and including cultures from throughout the world. These “Chicanos,” or Mexican American Indo-Hispanic mestizos, are a mix of native peoples and the Conquistadors. Michael Mares traces his family lineage from the mid-twentieth century barrio of Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico to the ancient lands of pre-Spain. His ancestors were the conquerors and the conquered, people who were in America centuries before White culture arrived on the Mayflower. Chicanos have been war heroes, business executives, politicians, entertainers, social activists, authors, actors and billionaires, yet they are often ignored or even threatened with deportation. Despite plans to deport and punish them by the tens of millions, breaking up families and dragging them from their homes, they were here centuries before the United States of America was a country. They are not going anywhere.

Michael Mares is an ecologist from Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has a BS degree from the University of New Mexico, a Master’s degree from Fort Hays Kansas State University, and a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin. He was a museum director and university professor, and he studied mammals throughout the world in sixty countries in North and South America, Africa, Australia and Asia. A Fulbright Scholar, a Ford Foundation National Hispanic Postdoctoral Fellow, a member of the Fulbright Board of Directors, and an advisor to the Smithsonian Institution and to museums worldwide, he has published more than two hundred articles and books, including The Encyclopedia of Deserts (University of Oklahoma Press), A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding Landscape (Harvard Press) and The Mammals of Oklahoma (University of Oklahoma Press).

“In this essentially American story, Mares finds a basis in his New Mexican past for everything he achieves on the world stage as a scientist and an academic. Grounded in the Latino experience of Mexican American culture and achievement, Mares shows what it means to have a living awareness of one of the great communities in America. This book is a must read for those wanting to understand the contributions of New Mexican culture to the American experience.” —Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Author of Mestizos Come Home!: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Mares

Hardcover:
6 x 9, Illustrated
ISBN: 978-1-63293-753-7
452 pp.,$58.95

Softcover:
6 x 9, illustrated
ISBN: 978-1-63293-738-4
452 pp.,$48.95