Brown Tide Rising2002 Best Book on Ethnic and Racial Political Ideology and or Political Theory Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics of the American Political Science Association " awash under a brown tide the relentless flow of immigrants.. like waves on a beach, these human flows are remaking the face of America." Since 1993, metaphorical language such as this has permeated mainstream media reporting on the United States' growing Latino population. In