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100 1 $aSkerry, Peter.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86862644
245 10 $aMexican Americans :$bthe ambivalent minority /$cPeter Skerry.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press ;$aToronto :$bMaxwell Macmillan Canada ;$aNew York :$bMaxwell Macmillan International,$c[1993], ©1993.
300 $aix, 463 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 379-445) and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. Introduction and Overview. 1. The Primacy of Politics. 2. San Antonio: Getting Ahead and Getting Even. 3. Los Angeles: Moving In, Out, and Up. 4. Paradoxical Political Outcomes -- Pt. 2. Four Styles of Mexican-American Politics. 5. Friends-and-Neighbors Politics and the Need for Organization. 6. Obstacles to Organization Politics. 7. Elite-Network Politics: The Clique and Its Challengers. 8. Protest Politics: Symbolism and Symbiosis -- Pt. 3. The National Perspective. 9. The State of Mexican-American Opinion. 10. Assimilation and Its Discontents. 11. Newcomers in a New Nation.
520 $a"Some of us have been here for three hundred years, some for three days." This comment, often repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms their status as one of America's oldest ethnic groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest growing. Not surprisingly, many observers (including some Mexican Americans) are concerned about the impact of the burgeoning number of Mexican immigrants on our society - anxieties exacerbated by leaders whose demands for bilingual schools and ballots challenge the goal of assimilation.
520 8 $aYet for Skerry the critical question is not whether Mexican immigrants will join the American mainstream, but how - on what terms. Those terms, he argues, will be forged in the political arena, where enormous changes have been wrought during the past twenty-five years. Gone are the strong local party organizations that once helped newcomers adapt. In their stead are nationalized parties with weak local roots, and civil rights efforts such as the Voting Rights Act, which offer Mexican Americans powerful incentives to define themselves not as an aspiring immigrant ethnic group but as a racially oppressed minority.
520 8 $aThese divergent political styles emerge from Skerry's comparison of the two American cities with the most visible Mexican American communities, San Antonio and Los Angeles. In Texas, where Mexican Americans have indeed been racially subjugated, traditional political institutions and effective community organizing have afforded them much political success, and moderated their deep-seated resentments. Paradoxicallyin California, where Mexican Americans have enjoyed considerable social and economic mobility, their political efforts have been much less successful and characterized by angry protest and racial claims.
520 8 $aNoting that the California model of politics, detached from local communities and propelled by money and media, is setting the national norm. Skerry warns that Mexican Americans are being encouraged to dwell on the undeniable injustices of the past rather than to seize the opportunities of the present. If left unchallenged, the temptation of race politics threatens to fulfill the prophecy of those who insist that Mexican Americans cannot make it into the mainstream.
650 0 $aMexican Americans$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101622
650 0 $aMexican Americans$zTexas$zSan Antonio$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aMexican Americans$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1989-1993.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000002
651 0 $aSan Antonio (Tex.)$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xPolitics and government.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116078
651 0 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
651 0 $aSan Antonio (Tex.)$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xEthnic relations.
852 00 $bleh$hE184.M5$iS57 1993