Numbering over a third of California's population and thirteen percent of the U.S. population, people of Mexican ancestry represent a hugely complex group with a long history in the country. Contributors explore a broad range of issues regarding California's ethnic Mexican population, including their concentration among the working poor and as day laborers; their participation in various sectors of the educational system; social problems such as domestic violence; their contributions to the arts, especially music; media stereotyping; and political alliances and alignments. Contributors are Brenda D. Arellano, Leo R. Chavez, Yvette G. Flores, Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Aída Hurtado, Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Chon A. Noriega, Manuel Pastor Jr., Armida Ornelas, Russell W. Rumberger, Daniel Solórzano, Enriqueta Valdez Curiel, and Abel Valenzuela Jr.| Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. Work and Poverty 1. Poverty, Work, and Public Policy: Latino Futures in California's New Economy Manuel Pastor Jr. 2. Working Day Labor: Informal and Contingent Employment Abel Valenzuela II. Education and Achievement 3. Understanding and Addressing the California Latino Achievement Gap in Early Elementary School Russell W. Rumberger and Brenda Arellano Anguiano 4. Reaffirming Affirmative Action: An Equal Opportunity Analysis of Advance Placement Courses and University Admissions Armida Ornelas and Daniel Solorzano 5. Chicano Struggles for Racial Justice: The Movement?s Contribution to Social Theory Ramón Guti¿rrez 6. "Lifting as we Climb": Educated Chicanas? Social Identities and Commitment to Social Action Aída Hurtado III. Culture and Self-Representation 7. The Quebec Metaphor, Invasion, and Reconquest in Public Discourse on Mexican Immigration Leo R. Chavez 8. Prime Time Protest: Latinos and Network Television Chon Noriega 9. The Politics of Passion: Poetics and Performance of La Canción Ranchera Olga N jera-Ramírez IV. Culture and Violence 10. Conflict Resolution and Intimate Partner Violence among Mexicans on Both Sides of the Border Yvette Flores and Enriqueta Valdez Curiel Bibliography Index |"Informative and well written, this anthology contains substantive explorations of issues that deeply affect the daily lives and experience of Latino/as in the United States today."—Suzanne Oboler, founding editor of Latino Studies and coeditor in chief of the four-volume Oxford Encyclopedia on Latinos and Latinas in the United States
|Ramón A. Gutiérrez is the Preston & Sterling Morton Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Patricia Zavella is a professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.