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Author / Creator:	García Bedolla, Lisa, 1969- author.
Edition:	Second edition.
Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2014.
Description:	xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government. Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions. Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions. Immigrants -- United States. Political participation -- United States. Diplomatic relations. Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions. Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government. Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions. Immigrants. Political participation. Political science. Race relations -- Political aspects. United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects. United States -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects. United States -- Politics and government. United States -- Foreign relations. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10093238

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ISBN:	9780745665009 9780745664996 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0745664997 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0745665004 (paperback : alkaline paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index.
Summary:	"Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this popular text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to Latino participation in US politics. Focusing on six Latino groups--Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans--the book explores the migration history of each group and shows how that experience has been affected by US foreign policy and economic interests in each country of origin. The political status of Latinos on arrival in the United States, including their civil rights, employment opportunities, and political incorporation, is then examined. Finally, the analysis follows each group's history of collective mobilization and political activity, drawing out the varied ways they have engaged in the US political system. Using the tension between individual agency and structural constraints as its central organizing theme, the discussion situates Latino migrants, and their children, within larger macro economic and geo-political structures that influence their decisions to migrate and their ability to adapt socially, economically, and politically to their new country. It also demonstrates how Latinos continually have shown that through political action they can significantly improve their channels of opportunity. Thus, the book encourages students to think critically about what it means to be a racialized minority group within a majoritarian US political system, and how that position structures Latinos' ability to achieve their social, economic, and political goals"--

Table of Contents:

Plates, Figures, and Tables
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Latinos and US Politics
2. Latina/o Participation: Individual Activity and Institutional Context
3. Mexican Americans: Conquest, Migration, and Adaptation
4. Puerto Ricans: From Colonized People to Political Activists
5. Cuban Americans: Occupation, Revolution, and Exile Politics
6. Dominicans: Political Upheaval, Imperialism, and Transnational Activism
7. Central Americans: Inequality, War, and Solidarity
8. Conclusion: Context and Latino Migration and Mobilization
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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