Tamis Hoover Renteria

Chicano Professionals (eBook, PDF)

Culture, Conflict, and Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1998. As beneficiaries of aggressive affirmative action policies, Chicano doctors and lawyers educated in universities during the 1960s and early 1970s now dominate Mexican American professional politics and culture in Los Angeles. Chicano professionals have not shed their ethnicity or lost interest in working class Mexican Americans. Rather, they have maintained a sense of ethnic uniqueness and political entitlement through a Chicano professional culture. Rooted in the Chicano Movement, this culture is sustained through networks based on family; professional organization rituals with distinctive Chicano elements; arguments over ethnic labeling; and a variety of ethnic activities in daily life. Chicano professional culture is nurtured by a responsibility for the blue collar Mexican American population; an awareness of continuing discrimination against all Mexican Americans; and the ethnic culture of working class Mexican Americans who have retained their traditions even as they have moved into the Anglo-dominated American upper class. This book is a significant contribution to the sparse literature depicting the experiences of the Latinos who attended prestigious professional schools in unprecedented numbers during the height of affirmative action policies. The book also poses a significant challenge to the commonly-held assumption that class mobility inevitably leads to assimilation. Index. Bibliography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136528682
• Artikelnr.: 39957516

Autorenporträt

Tamis Hoover RenterÍa

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Ritual Politics: Of Grapes and Glitter
Chapter 2 The Familia : Cohesion And Conflict
Chapter 3 What's in a Name? Chicanos, Latinos, Mexican Americans and Hispanics
Chapter 4 Race and Gender: The Body Language of Ethnic Identity
Chapter 5 Race, Racism and the Power of Stories
Chapter 6 Status and the Trappings of Class
Chapter 7 Serving the Gente : An Alternative Professionalism
Chapter 8 Tortillas, Beans, and Bilingualism: Transformed Meanings
Chapter 9 Assimilation Revisited
Chapter 10 Postscript: Participant Observation in a Postmodern Chicano Context Appendix
Bibliography Index