Chicana/o identity in a changing U.S. society : quién soy? quiénes somos? / by Aída Hurtado and Patricia Gurin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurtado, Aída.

Contributor:

Gurin, Patricia.

Series:

Mexican American experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans.

Physical Description:

xix, 149 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscon : University of Arizona Press, [2004]

Contents:

A Word about Our Perspective xviii

1. Quien Soy?: The Development of Self 3

The Development of a Positive Sense of Self: Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Gender 6

Conclusions: Multiple Social Adaptations to Cultural Transformations 22

2. Quienes Somos?: The Importance of Social Identity 27

Personal Identity and Social Identity 30

The Creation of Social Identities 36

Identification and Consciousness in Ethnic Identity Formation 50

An Example of Identification and Consciousness 51

3. Language, Culture, and Community: Group Life in Creating and Maintaining Identities 68

Meritocracy 69

Universal Rule 69

Degrouping 73

Regrouping through Empowerment 81

Reclamaciones: Toward a Whole Self 85

Regrouping the Degrouped Group 105

4. Conclusions: The Future of Identity Formations 109

Multiple Social Adaptations to Cultural Transformations 112

New Developments in the Study of Social Identities: Transnationalism and Transculturalism 114.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-139) and index.

ISBN:

0816522057

OCLC:

54074051