Mexican Americans Across Generations Immigrant Families, Racial Realities

Name: Mexican Americans Across Generations Immigrant Families, Racial Realities
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ISBN: 9780814788295

ISBN-10: 0814788297

ISBN-13: 9780814788295

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos

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While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for generations. Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States, and their racial identities change with each generation. While the attainment of education and middle class occupations signals a decline in cultural attachment for some, socioeconomic mobility is not a cultural death-knell, As others are highly ethnically identified. There are a variety of ways that middle class Mexican Americans relate to their ethnic heritage, and racialization despite assimilation among a segment of the second and…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 314
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction






Thinned Attachment: Heritage Is Slipping through our Fingers



Cultural Maintenance: A Pot of Beans on the Stove



Tortillas in the Shape of the United States: Marriage and the Families We Choose






Whiter Is Better: Discrimination in Everyday Life



Fit to Be Good Cooks and Good Mechanics: Racialization in Schools



As Much Hamburger as Taco: Third-Generation Mexican Americans



Conclusion: Racialization despite Assimilation


Methodological Appendix: A Note on Sociological Reflexivity and ï¿½Situated Interviewsï¿½



Respondent Demographic Information (Pseudonyms)


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author