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Beyond Aztlan
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Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective
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Artikel-Nr:
9780275929237
Veröffentl:
1988
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
14.11.1988
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Mario Barrera
Gewicht:
455 g
Format:
222x145x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Mario Barrera is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Race and Class in the Southwest (1979). He received his PhD in political science from Berkeley in 1970, and was one of the founders of the National Association for Chicano Studies in 1973.
Does the achievement of economic equality in a multiethnic society require the complete loss of a minority's cultural identity? Beyond Aztlan argues that American society has historically viewed a distinctive cultural identity as something that an ethnic group gives up in order to achieve economic and political parity. Mexican Americans, who have scored limited gains in their struggle for equality since the 1940s, are proving to be no exception to the rule. However, Barrera compares the situation of Mexican Americans to that of minority groups in four other countries and concludes that equality does not necessarily require assimilation.
Anyone interested in the issues of ethnic equality with cultural maintenance or regional autonomy would do well to read this book, if not for its answers, then perhaps for its questions. American Journal of Sociology