CMAS Mexican American Monograph – serie
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Barrio Gangs
Street Life and Identity in Southern California
Häftad, 1988
247 kr
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Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten …
Mexican American Fertility Patterns
Av Frank D. Bean, Gray Swicegood
Häftad, 1986
225 kr
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The Mexican American population is the fastest growing major racial/ethnic group in the United States. During the decade 1970–1980, the Mexican origin population increased from 4.5 million to 8.7 million persons. High fertility, not immigration, was responsible for nearly two-thirds of this growth. …
Chicano Satire
A Study in Literary Culture
Häftad, 2012
251 kr
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Geographically close to Mexico, but surrounded by Anglo-American culture in the United States, Chicanos experience many cultural tensions and contradictions. Their lifeways are no longer identical with Mexican norms, nor are they fully assimilated to Anglo-American patterns. Coping with these …
Texas-Mexican Conjunto
History of a Working-class Music
Av Manuel Peña
Häftad, 1985
281 kr
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Around 1930, a highly popular and distinctive type of accordion music, commonly known as conjunto, emerged among Texas-Mexicans. Manuel PeÑa's The Texas-Mexican Con;unto is the first comprehensive study of this unique folk style. The author's exhaustive fieldwork and personal interviews with …
Zoot-Suit Riots
The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation
Häftad, 1984
225 kr
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Los Angeles, the summer of 1943. For ten days in June, Anglo servicemen and civilians clashed in the streets of the city with young Mexican Americans whose fingertip coats and pegged, draped trousers announced their rebellion. At their height, the riots involved several thousand men and women, …
