My recent studies have focused primarily on Islam, hospitality, and the urban diaspora.  In the past decade, immigration has been one of the big political topics, especially in the south.  We have stiff-armed Hispanics and when they protested (thousands in the street waving the Mexican flag in Dallas Tx), we have simply retrenched our positions (Tea Party).  Since Catholicism in South America was only a thin veneer laid over animism, Hispanics are not well founded in their "faith."  In fact, it…See More