ABSTRACT
We close our study with an epilogue whereby we examine a deep wound that, in our opinion, explains the invisibility of the Mexican community. The notion that the community exists but remains excluded draws on selected historical events helping us to understand the controversies discussed in this monograph. We begin the first section discussing the perspectives of US writers who have traveled and lived in Mexico before and during the Mexican Revolution. The publications by this group characterized Mexicans as childlike. Given the growing Mexican community in the United States, the analysis was simply applied to the immigrant community but also applied to Mexican Americans. The next section goes a bit deeper relating a case in Arizona which sees forty orphan children, who were brought to Mexican families living in the mining town of Morenci, taken away by gunpoint because, as the Anglo families living in nearby Clifton echoed, no Anglo baby should be raised by Mexicans. A third section examines the case of Mexican nationals crossing the bridge to El Paso having to be fumigated before being allowed to enter the city. We close with a sense of possibilities. Can El Paso come to share culture and space?
