What will be the impact of the burgeoning numbers of Mexican immigrants on American society? The answer, argues Peter Skerry, lies not so much with the social and economic progress of Mexican Americans as with the political institutions within which they define their interests--institutions radically changed from what greeted America's last great influx of newcomers. Comparing the divergent cases of San Antonio and Los Angeles, Skerry concludes that the critical question is not whether Mexican Americans will join the American mainstream, but how--as a traditional immigrant ethnic group or as an aggrieved minority.
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Around the world today there is no more perplexing or contentious issue than sorting out the meaning and implications of ethnic identity. Peter Skerry's new book demonstrates with great intelligence just how real and difficult issues of ethnicity remain in America. And for Mexican Americans in particular. This book will be an important contribution to a critical national concern. (Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan )
Peter Skerry's book provides a provocative analysis of the contemporary challenges confronting Mexican-Americans. According to Skerry, Mexican-American leaders are faced with a choice to define themselves either as traditional ethnic immigrants, such as the Irish at the turn of the century, or as victims of racial discrimination, like the blacks of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. (Times Literary Supplement )
It is Skerry's real contribution to connect the so-called "racialization" of politics with the feeling people have in general...that our politics have closed up and removed themselves from view. (Sarah Kerr New York Review of Books )
Peter Skerry's book provides a provocative analysis of the contemporary challenges confronting Mexican-Americans. According to Skerry, Mexican-American leaders are faced with a choice to define themselves either as traditional ethnic immigrants, such as the Irish at the turn of the century, or as victims of racial discrimination, like the blacks of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. (Times Literary Supplement )
It is Skerry's real contribution to connect the so-called "racialization" of politics with the feeling people have in general...that our politics have closed up and removed themselves from view. (Sarah Kerr New York Review of Books )
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A provocative analysis that not only raises important questions about this group's political effectiveness but also challenges more generally the capacity of American politics to advance the real interests of the powerless. (Peter Schuck, Yale Law School, coauthor of Citizenship without Consent )
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Mexican Americans : The Ambivalent Minority,
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I thought this book was well researched and written. It discuss many issues that may not be popular in the Latino community. The discussion on the difference between the political clout in San Antonio Texas VS Los Angeles was extremely interesting.
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