Latino Politics in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Mexican American and Puerto Rican Experience

Latino Politics in the United States is about understanding oppression, but it is also, and for the most part, about resistance and victory. I think that's why I enjoyed reading it as I think you will too."- Raul A. Fernandez, School of Social Science, University of California, Irvine

• Chapter 1 The Racialization of Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans: 1890s–1930s AbstractIntroductionScope and ConceptsHistorical ScopeSocial Theory, Racialization and Popular CultureThe Racialization of Mexican Americans and Puerto RicansHistorical Processes of RacializationImposition and SubordinationPuerto RicansIdeology and Institutional ArrangementsPlacement in the Racial HierarchyCrystallization of a Racial IdentityConclusionsReferencesEndnotesChapter 2 The 1992 “Angelazo,” Los Angeles, U.S.A.: “A House Divided Against Itself...” AbstractIntroductionCollective Behavior in the United StatesGenesis of the Social DespairJoining the Ranks of the Third World?Growing Social InequalityA Post-Industrial Society for a Global EconomyRace, Poverty, and Social InequalityInner Cities: Economic DesertsEpilogue?: Forging a Political ConsensusEpilogue to an Epilogue: or “How Los Angeles’ Wounds Fester”Unmet ExpectationsA Cacophony of IroniesA Vision for the Future?ReferencesEndnotesChapter 3 Boricuas, African Americans, and Chicanos in the “Far West”: Notes on the Puerto Rican Pro-Independence Movement in California, 1960s–1980sAbstractIntroductionPuerto Ricans in CaliforniaThe Demography of Puerto Ricans in Southern California“La Lucha” (The Struggle) for Puerto Rican Independence in California“La Lucha” in the Bay Area“‘La Lucha’ in Los Angeles”ConclusionsReferencesEndnotesChapter 4 ¡Sí Se Puede! The Mobilization of Naturalized Latinas/os in Santa Ana, CA: 1990–2003AbstractIntroductionHistorical Context and RacializationHistorical Processes of RacializationImposition/SubordinationChallenging Ideology and Institutional Arrangements: EducationEducation in California TodayIdeology and Latino EducationResisting Ideology in the Educational SystemMobilizing Latinos in Santa AnaOrganizing the Latino Community, 1980sMobilizing the Naturalized Latino CitizensSanta Ana 1996–2002: Educational Policy to Empower Latinos“The Empire Strikes Back”: The Recall“Unholy” Alliances: Santa AnaConclusions: What Did the Recall Mean for Latino Empowerment?ReferencesEndnotesChapter 5 ¡Ni Una Bomba Más!: Racialization and Memory in the Vieques Social Movement AbstractIntroductionRacialization, Ideology and ImperialismConstructing “Subjects”: Racialization of Puerto Rico and ViequesHistorical Processes of RacilaizationLimiting Access and Control of Land in ViequesResistance to “Expropriation”Ideology and Institutional ArrangementsPlacement in the Racial HierarchyCrystallization of a Racial IdentityChallenging RacializationConstruction of a Viequense Cultural IdentityWomen in the Vieques Social MovementThe “Federal” Is TransgressedAllies in the MediaConclusionsReferencesEndnotes