Texas-style exclusion : Mexican Americans and the legacy of limited opportunity / Jennifer Van Hook and James D. Bachmeier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Hook, Jennifer, author.

Bachmeier, James D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Texas--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Texas--Economic conditions.

Race discrimination--Texas.

Race discrimination.

Educational attainment--Texas.

Educational attainment.

Social mobility--Texas.

Social mobility.

Physical Description:

xx, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2024]

Summary:

"Texas-Style Exclusion shows that Mexican immigrants, the nation's largest contemporary immigrant group, encountered an inhospitable environment when they started settling in Texas in the early twentieth century. It was far more repressive and offered far fewer opportunities than those provided to the millions of children of immigrants living in the Northeast and Midwest. Moreover, the initial disadvantages for Mexican immigrants living in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s were transmitted to their children, and to some extent their grandchildren, leading to their slow rates of upward mobility and social integration. The authors focus especially on educational attainment since it is a major indicator of a group's socioeconomic position in the United States. Educational attainment is strongly related to a person's access to schooling and is a crucial predictor of other important life outcomes, including income, occupation, health, and even length of life. Unlike other indicators of immigrant integration such as income, occupation, or residential segregation, education is easily interpretable and is measured consistently across all the census data sources examined"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Digging into the Archives

Mexican Americans as a Bellwether of Post-Industrial Integration

From the Tenements to the Top

Texas-Style Exclusion

The Leveling Effects of Industrial Era School Expansion

A Fair Shot

Building New Walls.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Van Hook, Jennifer. Texas-style exclusion

ISBN:

9780871548573

0871548577

OCLC:

1451521736

Publisher Number:

90101003748