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Mexican Americans across generations : immigrant families, racial realities / Jessica M. Vasquez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vasquez, Jessica M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation--California.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--California--Social conditions--21st century.
- California--Ethnic relations.
- California.
- California--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2011.
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Studies middle class Mexican American families across three generations and their experiences of racism and assimilation.
- 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
- Conclusion : racialization despite assimilation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780814788431
- 0814788432
- 9780814788363
- 081478836X
- OCLC:
- 779828381
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