Books by Ernesto Caravantes

Caravantes explores how people can trade one paradigm of conspicuous consumption for another of frugality and simplicity. With over one hundred easy-to-do fun ideas and entertaining activities that are free or very low in cost, the reader is shown the possibility of a life beyond spending.

The Mexican-American Mind is a book intended to give the reader a glimpse into the mental machinations of members of the Mexican-American cultural group, which has grown into one of the largest minority groups in the nation.

Addresses one of the most urgent problems in the US educational system - Latino under-achievement. This work gives a solution to this problem: Selective Cultural Adoption (SCA), a method that enables Latinos to retain meaningful characteristics of their culture while adopting key aspects of the Anglo-American culture that will help them succeed.

This book explains that the original wishes of the founders of the American Republic, as well as those of modern luminaries like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez, have not been realized. Caravantes traces this problem to the radical activism of the 1960s, which introduced the notion of multiculturalism.