The Resource Mexican Americans across generations : immigrant families, racial realities, Jessica M. Vasquez
Mexican Americans across generations : immigrant families, racial realities, Jessica M. Vasquez
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- Summary
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- Studies middle class Mexican American families across three generations and their experiences of racism and assimilation
- While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for generations. Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, and their racial identities change with each generation. While the attainment of education and middle class occupations signals a decline in cultural attachment for some, socioeconomic mobility is not a cultural death knell, as others are highly ethnically identified. There are a variety of ways that middle class Mexican Americans relate to their ethnic heritage, and racialization despite assimilation among a segment of the second and third generations reveals the continuing role of race even among the U.S. born. This work investigates racial identity and assimilation in three-generation Mexican American families living in California. Through interviews with three generations of middle class Mexican American families, the author focuses on the family as a key site for racial and gender identity formation, knowledge transmission, and incorporation processes, exploring how the racial identities of Mexican Americans both change and persist generationally in families. She illustrates how gender, physical appearance, parental teaching, historical era and discrimination influence Mexican Americans' racial identity and incorporation patterns, ultimately arguing that neither racial identity nor assimilation are straightforward progressions but, instead, develop unevenly and are influenced by family, society, and historical social movements
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 301 p.
- Contents
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- Thinned attachment: heritage is slipping through our fingers
- Cultural maintenance: a pot of beans on the stove
- Tortillas in the shape of the United States: marriage and the families we choose
- Whiter is better: discrimination in everyday life
- Fit to be good cooks and good mechanics: racialization in schools
- As much hamburger as taco: third-generation Mexican Americans
- Racialization despite assimilation
- Isbn
- 9780814788288
- Label
- Mexican Americans across generations : immigrant families, racial realities
- Title
- Mexican Americans across generations
- Title remainder
- immigrant families, racial realities
- Statement of responsibility
- Jessica M. Vasquez
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Studies middle class Mexican American families across three generations and their experiences of racism and assimilation
- While newly arrived immigrants are often the focus of public concern and debate, many Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans have resided in the United States for generations. Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, and their racial identities change with each generation. While the attainment of education and middle class occupations signals a decline in cultural attachment for some, socioeconomic mobility is not a cultural death knell, as others are highly ethnically identified. There are a variety of ways that middle class Mexican Americans relate to their ethnic heritage, and racialization despite assimilation among a segment of the second and third generations reveals the continuing role of race even among the U.S. born. This work investigates racial identity and assimilation in three-generation Mexican American families living in California. Through interviews with three generations of middle class Mexican American families, the author focuses on the family as a key site for racial and gender identity formation, knowledge transmission, and incorporation processes, exploring how the racial identities of Mexican Americans both change and persist generationally in families. She illustrates how gender, physical appearance, parental teaching, historical era and discrimination influence Mexican Americans' racial identity and incorporation patterns, ultimately arguing that neither racial identity nor assimilation are straightforward progressions but, instead, develop unevenly and are influenced by family, society, and historical social movements
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vasquez, Jessica M
- Dewey number
- 973/.046872
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E184.M5
- LC item number
- V344 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mexican Americans
- Mexican Americans
- California
- California
- Label
- Mexican Americans across generations : immigrant families, racial realities, Jessica M. Vasquez
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index
- Contents
- Thinned attachment: heritage is slipping through our fingers -- Cultural maintenance: a pot of beans on the stove -- Tortillas in the shape of the United States: marriage and the families we choose -- Whiter is better: discrimination in everyday life -- Fit to be good cooks and good mechanics: racialization in schools -- As much hamburger as taco: third-generation Mexican Americans -- Racialization despite assimilation
- Control code
- ocn670324815
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 301 p.
- Isbn
- 9780814788288
- Isbn Type
- (cl : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010041976
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780814788295
- (OCoLC)670324815
- Label
- Mexican Americans across generations : immigrant families, racial realities, Jessica M. Vasquez
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index
- Contents
- Thinned attachment: heritage is slipping through our fingers -- Cultural maintenance: a pot of beans on the stove -- Tortillas in the shape of the United States: marriage and the families we choose -- Whiter is better: discrimination in everyday life -- Fit to be good cooks and good mechanics: racialization in schools -- As much hamburger as taco: third-generation Mexican Americans -- Racialization despite assimilation
- Control code
- ocn670324815
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 301 p.
- Isbn
- 9780814788288
- Isbn Type
- (cl : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010041976
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780814788295
- (OCoLC)670324815
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