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Mexicans in California transformations and challenges
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Details
- Creator
- edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Patricia Zavella ; with the assistance of Denise Segura, Dolores Trevizo, and Juan Vicente Palerm
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1283059983, 9780252091421, 9780252034114, 9781283059985, 0252034112, 9786613059987, 9780252076077, 0252091426, 0252076079
- OCLC
- ocn923493729, ocn748779220
- Based on presentations made at a conference "Latinos in California II" held Sept. 11-12, 2003, sponsored by the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States along with the UC Committee on Latino Research.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-241) and index.
- English
- ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I. WORK AND POVERTY""; ""1. Poverty, Work, and Public Policy: Latino Futures in California's New Economy""; ""2. Working Day Labor: Informal and Contingent Employment""; ""PART II. EDUCATION AND ACHIEVEMENT""; ""3. Understanding and Addressing the California Latino Achievement Gap in Early Elementary School""; ""4. Reaffirming Affirmative Action: An Equal Opportunity Analysis of Advanced Placement Courses and University Admissions""
- ""5. Chicano Struggles for Racial Justice: The Movement's Contribution to Social Theory """"6. ""Lifting As We Climb"": Educated Chicanas' Social Identities and Commitment to Social Action""; ""PART III. CULTURE AND SELF-PRESERVATION""; ""7. The Quebec Metaphor, Invasion, and Reconquest in Public Discourse on Mexican Immigration""; ""8. Prime-Time Protest: Latinos and Network Television""; ""9. The Politics of Passion: Poetics and Performance of La Cancion Ranchera""; ""PART IV. CULTURE AND VIOLENCE""
- ""10. Conflict Resolution and Intimate Partner Violence among Mexicans on Both Sides of the Border""""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
Subjects
- Mexican Americans -- California -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
- Mexicans -- California -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
- Immigrants -- California -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
- Social change -- California -- Congresses.
- Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
- California -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
- California -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
- California -- Social conditions -- Congresses.