Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record, 2012, p. -http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 16809 *To get most recent citation information with access date, access the following link: https://www.tcrecord.org/books/abstract.asp?ContentId=16809 Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education Reviewed by Reynaldo Reyes III Title: Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education Author: William Pérez Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University ISBN: 978-0-8077-5283-8, Pages: 191 Year: 2012 There could not be fear in this book. Neither in the research conducted, nor the willingness of the student participants to let their stories be told. William Pérez’s Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education is a study that went beyond fear, and considered the great need for the stories of undocumented college students to be heard by those who may not understand. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, Pérez mentions in his description of the study that the triangulation of data-gathering allowed him to “move beyond the role of mere observer and recorder” (p. 12) of the students’ stories and experiences, which I believe was an important detail in the epistemological process. One might assume that undocumented students would want to continue to be silent because “years of survival have conditioned them to conceal a great deal more than they reveal” (p. 27). But for Pérez’s study, 110 undocumented students, mainly from California, Texas, and Virginia, came forward to tell