Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Chicano Educational Achievement: Comparing Escuela Tlatelolco, A Chicanocentric School, and a Public High School
1st Edition
By Elena Aragon de McKissack
October 17, 2016
First published in 2000. This study compares two urban schools based on their ability to provide an effective education for Hispanic students. Broderick High School began as an elite, Anglo-dominated institution and evolved into a school whose student body was 82% Hispanic. It is large, public and ...
Voices of Guatemalan Women in Los Angeles: Understanding Their Immigration
1st Edition
By Gabriele Kohpahl
October 10, 2016
First published in 1999. Guatemalan immigration is part of a trend where more women in an increasing number of countries than men participate in transnational migration. This research attempts to clarify the causes for this phenomenon. First, it evaluates which Guatemalan women initiators and ...
Dominicans in New York City: Power From the Margins
1st Edition
By Milagros Ricourt
August 26, 2016
This volume forms part of the Latino Communities, Emerging Voices Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues series. This study explores the diverse struggles of incorporation pursued by immigrants from the Dominican Republic to one city in the United States- New York City. The Dominican Republic...
The Development of a Latino Gay Identity
1st Edition
By Bernardo C. Garcia
August 26, 2016
First published in 1999. The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine the identity development process for Latino gay men. The research focuses on the perceptions of a sample of ten gay men and their process of defining themselves as gay. This study, however, is not only about the men in ...
Latinos and Local Representation: Changing Realities, Emerging Theories
1st Edition
By Florence Adams
August 08, 2016
This study examines trends in Voting Rights Act enforcement and the results for Latino representation. The focus is on local governments of the West and Southwest: some of the communities examined, Latino population is increasing rapidly, often to majority status; and in others, white suburban ...
Chicano Empowerment and Bilingual Education: Movimiento Politics in Crystal City, Texas
1st Edition
By Armando L. Trujillo
August 04, 2016
First published in 1999. This study looks at the relationship between the quest for Chicano community empowerment in the Winter Garden region, the development and implementation of the bilingual/cultural education program in Crystal City, Texas, and bilingual education policy change....
Colegio Cesar Chavez, 1973-1983: A Chicano Struggle for Educational Self-Determination
1st Edition
By Carlos Maldonado
May 13, 2016
This work illuminates the founding and brief existence of Colegio Cesar Chavez , founded in the Pacific Northwest in 1973. The work is set within a national and regional context. Colegio Cesar Chavez holds a unique niche in Chicano social and educational history, due to its strong Chicano ...
Latino National Political Coalitions: Struggles and Challenges
1st Edition
By David Rodriguez
April 27, 2016
This study examines Latino national political coalitions in the United States with a focus on Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. It argues that Latino national political coalitions are an avenue of political empowerment for the Latino Community, but face social, economic, and political challenges...
Chicano Professionals: Culture, Conflict, and Identity
1st Edition
By Tamis Hoover Renteria
February 29, 2016
First published in 1998. 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 ...
Telling Our Stories: The Lives of Latina Women
1st Edition
By Theresa Baron-McKeagney
February 29, 2016
Stereotypes of Mexican American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican American culture and their invisibility. In this qualitative study, Mexican American women were interviewed and their life histories were examined using an ...
Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination: Literature of the Borderlands
1st Edition
By John S. Christie
July 16, 2015
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. The aim of this book is to approach Latino fiction from a wider perspective, and to cross the standard critical boundaries between Latino groups in order to focus upon the literary language of a collection...
Residential Segregation Patterns of Latinos in the United States, 1990-2000
1st Edition
By Michael E Martin
November 10, 2014
Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high ...