Crowding out Latinos : Mexican Americans in the public consciousness / Marco Portales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Portales, Marco, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Public opinion.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Education.

Mexican Americans and mass media.

Hispanic Americans--Public opinion.

Hispanic Americans.

Hispanic Americans--Education.

Hispanic Americans and mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this groundbreaking analysis, Marco Portales examines the way in which education and the media act as immobilizing social forces to shape the Latino world that exists despite the best efforts of many Mexican Americans and other Latinos. The delicate relationships between what Latinos are and what they seem to be, as perceived both by the larger society and by Latinos themselves, create and craft a culture that students of American culture have not sufficiently studied or understood. As bandidos or gigolos, drug users or unwed mothers, Latinos continue to figure in the pu

Contents:

Contents; Preface; About the Frontispiece; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Chicano Literature and Irish Literature; 3. Latinos in American Culture; 4. Hispanics and the American Media; 5. Love and the Mexican American School Experience; 6. Enhancing the Visibility of Chicano Literature; 7. Americo Paredes's George Washington Gomez: Educating Mexican American Students; 8. The Lives of a Chicano Film Star: Anthony Quinn's The Original Sin; 9. Rape and Barrio Education in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street

10. Ana Castillo's Massacre of the Dreamers: Communicating the Chicana Experience11. Chicano Writing versus Chicano Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439906101

1439906106

9780585366708

0585366705

OCLC:

648711498

Publisher Number:

heb40066 hdl