Mexican Americans: the ambivalent minority
"Some of us have been here for three hundred years, some for three days." This comment, often repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms their status as one of America's oldest ethnic groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest growing. Not surprisingly, many observers (including som...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Some of us have been here for three hundred years, some for three days." This comment, often repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms their status as one of America's oldest ethnic groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest growing. Not surprisingly, many observers (including some Mexican Americans) are concerned about the impact of the burgeoning number of Mexican immigrants on our society - anxieties exacerbated by leaders whose demands for bilingual schools and ballots challenge the goal of assimilation Yet for Skerry the critical question is not whether Mexican immigrants will join the American mainstream, but how - on what terms. Those terms, he argues, will be forged in the political arena, where enormous changes have been wrought during the past twenty-five years. Gone are the strong local party organizations that once helped newcomers adapt. In their stead are nationalized parties with weak local roots, and civil rights efforts such as the Voting Rights Act, which offer Mexican Americans powerful incentives to define themselves not as an aspiring immigrant ethnic group but as a racially oppressed minority These divergent political styles emerge from Skerry's comparison of the two American cities with the most visible Mexican American communities, San Antonio and Los Angeles. In Texas, where Mexican Americans have indeed been racially subjugated, traditional political institutions and effective community organizing have afforded them much political success, and moderated their deep-seated resentments. Paradoxicallyin California, where Mexican Americans have enjoyed considerable social and economic mobility, their political efforts have been much less successful and characterized by angry protest and racial claims |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
mi
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
1.
The Primacy of Politics
3
2.
San Antonio: Getting Ahead and Getting Even
33
3.
Los Angeles: Moving In, Out, and Up
59
4.
Paradoxical Political Outcomes
91
PART TWO
FOUR STYLES OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN POLITICS
5.
Friends-and-Neighbors Politics and the Need for Organization
131
6.
Obstacles to Organization Politics
175
7.
Elite-Network Politics: The Clique and Its Challengers
217
8.
Protest Politics: Symbolism and Symbiosis
251
PART THREE
THE NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
9.
The State of Mexican-American Opinion
275
10.
Assimilation and Its Discontents
313
11.
Newcomers in a New Nation
367
Лоѓеѕ
379
Index
447
Some of us have been here for three hundred
years, some for three days. This comment, of¬
ten repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms
their status as one of Americas oldest ethnic
groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest
growing. Not surprisingly, many observers (in¬
cluding some Mexican Americans) are con¬
cerned about the impact of the burgeoning
number of Mexican immigrants on our society-
anxieties exacerbated by leaders whose de¬
mands for bilingual schools and ballots chal¬
lenge the goal of assimilation.
Yet for Skerry the critical question is not
whether Mexican immigrants will join the Amer¬
ican mainstream, but how—on what terms.
Those terms, he argues, will be forged in the po¬
litical arena, where enormous changes have
been wrought during the past twenty-five years.
Gone are the strong local party organizations
that once helped newcomers adapt. In their
stead are nationalized parties with weak local
roots, and civil rights efforts such as the oting
Rights Act, which offer Mexican Americans-
powerful incentives to define themselves not as
an aspiring immigrant ethnic group but as a ra¬
cially oppressed minority.
These divergent political styles emerge from
Skerry s comparison of the two American cities
with the most visible Mexican American com¬
munities. San Antonio and Los Angeles. In
Texas, where Mexican Americans have indeed
been racially subjugated, traditional political
institutions and effective community organizing
have afforded them much political success and
moderated their deep-seated resentments. Par¬
adoxically in California, where Mexican Ameri¬
cans have enjoyed considerable social and
economic mobility, their political efforts have
been much less successful and characterized by
angry protest and racial claims.
Noting that the California model of polities,
detached from local communities and propelled
by money and media, is setting the
national
norm. Skerry warns that Mexican Americans
arc beinfreneouraged to dwell on the undeniable
injustices of the past rather than to seize the op¬
portunities of the present. If
leit
unchallenged,
the temptation of race politics threatens to
fulfill the prophecy of those who insist that
Mexican Americans cannot make it into the
mainstream.
FETFK
ЅкКШП
has been a fellow at the
Brookings Institution and the American Enter¬
prise Institute. He teaches political science at
L CLA,
where he is director of ^ asbington Pro¬
grams for the Center for American Politics and
Public
Poliev.
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| spelling | Skerry, Peter Verfasser aut Mexican Americans the ambivalent minority Peter Skerry New York Free Press [u.a.] 1993 IX, 463 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Some of us have been here for three hundred years, some for three days." This comment, often repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms their status as one of America's oldest ethnic groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest growing. Not surprisingly, many observers (including some Mexican Americans) are concerned about the impact of the burgeoning number of Mexican immigrants on our society - anxieties exacerbated by leaders whose demands for bilingual schools and ballots challenge the goal of assimilation Yet for Skerry the critical question is not whether Mexican immigrants will join the American mainstream, but how - on what terms. Those terms, he argues, will be forged in the political arena, where enormous changes have been wrought during the past twenty-five years. Gone are the strong local party organizations that once helped newcomers adapt. In their stead are nationalized parties with weak local roots, and civil rights efforts such as the Voting Rights Act, which offer Mexican Americans powerful incentives to define themselves not as an aspiring immigrant ethnic group but as a racially oppressed minority These divergent political styles emerge from Skerry's comparison of the two American cities with the most visible Mexican American communities, San Antonio and Los Angeles. In Texas, where Mexican Americans have indeed been racially subjugated, traditional political institutions and effective community organizing have afforded them much political success, and moderated their deep-seated resentments. Paradoxicallyin California, where Mexican Americans have enjoyed considerable social and economic mobility, their political efforts have been much less successful and characterized by angry protest and racial claims Mexicaanse Amerikanen gtt Mexicano-americanos - Gobierno bidex Mexicano-americanos - Política bidex Politik Mexican Americans Politics and government Mexican Americans California Los Angeles Politics and government Mexican Americans Texas San Antonio Politics and government Minderheitenpolitik (DE-588)4170001-6 gnd rswk-swf Chicanos (DE-588)4069953-5 gnd rswk-swf Estados Unidos - Relaciones étnicas bidex USA Los Angeles (Calif.) Ethnic relations Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government San Antonio (Tex.) Ethnic relations San Antonio (Tex.) Politics and government United States Ethnic relations United States Politics and government 1945-1989 United States Politics and government 1989-1993 Los Angeles, Calif. (DE-588)4036361-2 gnd rswk-swf San Antonio, Tex. (DE-588)4124107-1 gnd rswk-swf Chicanos (DE-588)4069953-5 s Minderheitenpolitik (DE-588)4170001-6 s San Antonio, Tex. (DE-588)4124107-1 g DE-604 Los Angeles, Calif. (DE-588)4036361-2 g Digitalisierung UB Regensburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=005404029&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Regensburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=005404029&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
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