Latin/o American Perspectives of the United States in Sam no es mi tío.
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Sam no es mi tío: Veinticuatro crónicas migrantes y un sueño americano (2012) edited by Diego Fonseca and Aileen El-Kadi brings together a collection of crónicas (“literary essays”) of authors who are not easy to be categorized, especially as “Latino.” This eclectic group of writers born in Latin America or the United States, living in Latin America, Europe, or the United States, writes of their encounter with America. Their vision seems to suggest an America that excludes the “Latinos.” Most of the authors write from a comfortable socio-economic position as professors, journalists, or full-time authors and are transnationals in their own right, traversing and negotiating many borders to find themselves homogenized as “Latino/Hispanic,” and excluding them an identity of difference. Through autobiographical and biographical pieces the volume looks at the migrant vision and their dreams, where Uncle Sam does not always want them.
