Chicano Professionals: Culture, Conflict, and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780815330936 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 248 str.

Tamis Hoover Renteria

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Tamis Hoover RenterÍa