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...

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Focuses on the perceptions of ten men and how they define themselves as gay to test the hypothesis that the process for Latinos is more complex and difficult that for others because of the critical importance placed on family and religion, and the subsequent homophobia in the Latino community. Annot

This study examines trends in the Voting Rights Act enforcement and the results for Latino representation. The focus is on local governments of the West and Southwest America. In some of the communities examined, the Latino population is increasing rapidly, often to majority status, and in others, white suburban development is dominating, sometimes displacing Latino's. In both situations, district lines can decide the future political power of Latinos and non-Latinos alike. The local distributing process, which has never been studied in depth, is shown to be reshaping the political and racist...

This study examines Latino national political coalitions in the United States with a focus on Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and Cubans.

Based on the observation that schools that represent and accept the ethnic identities of students are more likely to be successful in educating those students, McKissack compares a public high school with a private school founded to serve the Chicano community in Denver, looking at such factors as

Describes the founding and brief existence of Colegio Cesar Chavex, founded in the Pacific Northwest in 1973, set within a national and regional context. This history of the college tells the story of a Chicano struggle for education and self determination and highlights the socio-political issues contributing to the demise of a bold educational experiment.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.