Durable ethnicity : Mexican Americans and the ethnic core /

Durable ethnicity : Mexican Americans and the ethnic core /

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Author / Creator:	Telles, Edward Eric, 1956- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	xxv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Public opinion -- West (U.S.) Social surveys -- West (U.S.) Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion. Ethnic relations. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Public opinion. Race relations. Social surveys. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion. West (U.S.) -- Race relations. West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations. Mexico. West United States.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11934829

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Varying Form of Title:	Mexican Americans and the ethnic core
Other authors / contributors:	Sue, Christina A., author.
ISBN:	9780190221508 019022150X 9780190221492 0190221496 9780190221515 9780190221522 9780190061401
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.
Summary:	"Despite the common perception that most persons of Mexican origin in the U.S are undocumented immigrants or the young children of immigrants, the majority are citizens and have been living in the U.S. for three or more generations. This group initially makes strides on education, English language use, socioeconomic status, intermarriage, residential segregation, and political participation, but progress halts at the second generation as poverty rates remain high, educational attainment declines for the third and fourth generations, and ethnic identity remains generally strong. In these ways, the experience of Mexican Americans differs considerably from previous waves of white European immigrants that were incorporated and assimilated fully into the mainstream within two or three generations. This book examines what ethnicity means and how it is negotiated in the lives of multiple generations of Mexican Americans. Rooted in a large-scale longitudinal and representative survey of 1,500 Mexican Americans living in the West across 35 years, Telles and Sue draw on 72 in-depth interviews to examine individual ethnic strategies and demonstrate that integration is often a process that varies by individual rather than a one-way movement. They detail the myriad ways Mexican Americans understand themselves in relation to their ethnicity, how ethnic identity is often consequential rather than symbolic or optional, that ethnic identity and national identity often co-exist, the meaning of speaking or not speaking Spanish, and their attitudes towards immigration. Telles and Sue are able to show how, when, and why ethnicity matters or does not for multiple generations of Mexican Americans and argue their experiences lie somewhere between Mexican and American."--

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Summary:	Mexican Americans are unique in the panoply of American ethno-racial groups in that they are the descendants of the largest and longest lasting immigration stream in US history. Today, there are approximately 24 million Americans of Mexican descent living in the United States, many of whose families have been in the US for several generations. In Durable Ethnicity, Edward E. Telles and Christina A. Sue examine the meanings behind being both American and ethnically Mexican for contemporary Mexican Americans. Rooted in a large-scale longitudinal and representative survey of Mexican Americans living in San Antonio and Los Angeles across 35 years, Telles and Sue draw on 70 in-depth interviews and over 1,500 surveys to examine how Mexicans Americans construct their identities and attitudes related to ethnicity, nationality, language, and immigration. In doing so, they highlight the primacy of their American identities and variation in their ethnic identities, showing that their experiences range on a continuum from symbolic to consequential ethnicity, even into the fourth generation. Durable Ethnicity offers a comprehensive exploration into how, when, and why ethnicity matters for multiple generations of Mexican Americans, arguing that their experiences are influenced by an ethnic core, a set of structural and institutional forces that promote and sustain ethnicity.
Physical Description:	xxv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index.
ISBN:	9780190221508 019022150X 9780190221492 0190221496 9780190221515 9780190221522 9780190061401