Mexican-Americans in comparative perspective / edited by Walker Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Connor, Walker, 1926-2017.

Urban Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans.

Medical Subjects:

Mexican Americans.

Genre:

Kongress -- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- 1984.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 373 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, ©1985.

Contents:

Who are the Mexican-Americans? a note on comparability / Walker Connor

Assimilation in the United States : the Mexican-Americans / J. Milton Yinger

Conflict and accommodation : Mexican-Americans in the cosmopolis / Donald L. Horowitz

Ethnicity and stratification : Mexican-Americans and European gastarbeiter in comparative perspective / John Stone

Transborder peoples / Myron Weiner

Migration theory and practice / Rosemarie Rogers

The political distinctiveness of the Mexican-Americans / Nathan Glazer

As American as tamale pie : Mexican-American political mobilization and the loyalty question / Rodolfo de la Garza

Political mobilization in the Mexican-American community / Harry P. Pachon

Language policies : patterns of retention and maintenance / Shirley Brice Heath

National language profile of the Mexican-origin population in the United States / Reynaldo F. Macias

The ethnic revival in the United States : implications for the Mexican-American community / Joshua Fishman

Conclusions : through a comparative prism darkly / Walker Connor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: Mexican-Americans in comparative perspective.

ISBN:

0877663904

9780877663904

0877663890

9780877663898

OCLC:

12052695