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Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity

Autor Gilda L. Ochoa
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2004
On the surface, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants to the United States seem to share a common cultural identity but often make uneasy neighbors. Discrimination and assimilationist policies have influenced generations of Mexican Americans so that some now fear that the status they have gained by assimilating into American society will be jeopardized by Spanish-speaking newcomers. Other Mexican Americans, however, adopt a position of group solidarity and work to better the social conditions and educational opportunities of Mexican immigrants.
Focusing on the Mexican-origin, working-class city of La Puente in Los Angeles County, California, this book examines Mexican Americans' everyday attitudes toward and interactions with Mexican immigrants—a topic that has so far received little serious study. Using in-depth interviews, participant observations, school board meeting minutes, and other historical documents, Gilda Ochoa investigates how Mexican Americans are negotiating their relationships with immigrants at an interpersonal level in the places where they shop, worship, learn, and raise their families. This research into daily lives highlights the centrality of women in the process of negotiating and building communities and sheds new light on identity formation and group mobilization in the U.S. and on educational issues, especially bilingual education. It also complements previous studies on the impact of immigration on the wages and employment opportunities of Mexican Americans.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292701687
ISBN-10: 0292701683
Pagini: 284
Ilustrații: 6 photographs, 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Gilda Ochoa is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicana/o Studies at Pomona College.

Cuprins

  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introducing Becoming Neighbors
  • 2. Theorizing about Mexican American-Mexican Immigrant Relations in "Occupied Mexico"
  • 3. "Where the Past Meets the Future": Centering La Puente
  • 4. "This Is Who I Am": Negotiating Racial/Ethnic Constructions
  • 5. "Between a Rock and a Hard Place, with No Easy Answers": Structuring Conflict
  • 6. "We Can't Forget Our Roots": Building Solidarity
  • 7. Constructing Puentes: Mexican American and Mexican Immigrant Mobilization
  • 8. Revisiting and Envisioning the Processes of Becoming Neighbors
  • Appendix: The Politics of Research
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

Recenzii

What makes this book remarkable is the quality of the in-depth, ethnographic data the author acquires and uses to provide revealing insights into how both Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants experience the often rough road to mutual understanding and respect.  This is a must read for anyone interested in Latinos, immigration, culture and social change, and the future of Califormia and the nation.

...a masterful study that offers significant implications for the lives of Latinos all over the country.

Descriere

Focusing on the Mexican-origin, working-class city of La Puente in Los Angeles County, California, this book examines Mexican Americans’ everyday attitudes toward and interactions with Mexican immigrants—a topic that has so far received little serious stu