1st Edition
Chicano Professionals Culture, Conflict, and Identity
By Tamis Hoover Renteria
Copyright 1998
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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;
Biography
Tamis Hoover RenterÍa
