Author: Barbara June MacklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Structural Stability and Culture Change in a Mexican-American Community
Author: Barbara June MacklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Structural Stability and Culture Change in a Mexican-American Community
Author: Barbara June MacklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Labor Literature
Author: Chicano Experience
Author: Stanley A. WestPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429727569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The past decade has seen a renewed interest in ethnicity by people in search of their own identities, as well as by writers and scholars from every discipline. But despite the contagion of ethnic aEURO fever,aEURO the Chicano culture is neither widely known nor appreciated in the United States. The authors of this book attempt to close the gap in current knowledge. Their purpose is fourfold: (1) to add to the knowledge of Chicano communities; (2) to add to the knowledge and understanding of how Mexican Americans have adapted in various urban areas; (3) to present descriptions and analyses of communities in the Midwest, where the presence of Mexican Americans has been more typically neglected; and (4) to bring an anthropological approach to the understanding of this second-largest minority group in the United States.
Sociocultural Determinants of Achievement Among Mexican-American Students
Author: James G. AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Sociology
Author: Nicolàs KanellosPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611921656
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.
A Guide to Materials Relating to Persons of Mexican Heritage in the United States
Author: United States. Inter-agency Committee on Mexican American AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Migration, Settlement Pattern, and Social Organization
Author: Jane Bushong HaneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flint (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Changing Woman
Author: Karen AndersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198022131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
While great strides have been made in documenting discrimination against women in America, our awareness of discrimination is due in large part to the efforts of a feminist movement dominated by middle-class white women, and is skewed to their experiences. Yet discrimination against racial ethnic women is in fact dramatically different--more complex and more widespread--and without a window into the lives of racial ethnic women our understanding of the full extent of discrimination against all women in America will be woefully inadequate. Now, in this illuminating volume, Karen Anderson offers the first book to examine the lives of women in the three main ethnic groups in the United States--Native American, Mexican American, and African American women--revealing the many ways in which these groups have suffered oppression, and the profound effects it has had on their lives. Here is a thought-provoking examination of the history of racial ethnic women, one which provides not only insight into their lives, but also a broader perception of the history, politics, and culture of the United States. For instance, Anderson examines the clash between Native American tribes and the U.S. government (particularly in the plains and in the West) and shows how the forced acculturation of Indian women caused the abandonment of traditional cultural values and roles (in many tribes, women held positions of power which they had to relinquish), subordination to and economic dependence on their husbands, and the loss of meaningful authority over their children. Ultimately, Indian women were forced into the labor market, the extended family was destroyed, and tribes were dispersed from the reservation and into the mainstream--all of which dramatically altered the woman's place in white society and within their own tribes. The book examines Mexican-American women, revealing that since U.S. job recruiters in Mexico have historically focused mostly on low-wage male workers, Mexicans have constituted a disproportionate number of the illegals entering the states, placing them in a highly vulnerable position. And even though Mexican-American women have in many instances achieved a measure of economic success, in their families they are still subject to constraints on their social and political autonomy at the hands of their husbands. And finally, Anderson cites a wealth of evidence to demonstrate that, in the years since World War II, African-American women have experienced dramatic changes in their social positions and political roles, and that the migration to large urban areas in the North simply heightened the conflict between homemaker and breadwinner already thrust upon them. Changing Woman provides the first history of women within each racial ethnic group, tracing the meager progress they have made right up to the present. Indeed, Anderson concludes that while white middle-class women have made strides toward liberation from male domination, women of color have not yet found, in feminism, any political remedy to their problems.
The Spanish Speaking in the United States: a Guide to Materials
Author: United States. Cabinet Committee on Opportunities for Spanish-Speaking PeoplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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