The Chicano experience : an alternative perspective / Alfredo Mirandé.

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"This revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today. For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirandé's The Chicano Experience has captivated readers with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mirandé, Alfredo (Author)
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2022.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Social conditions.
Mexican Americans > Economic conditions.
Physical Description:x, 363 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A Introduction: Toward a Chicano social science
  • Part I. Displacement of the Chicano
  • Chicano labor and the economy
  • The United States-Mexico border : a Chicano perspective on immigration and undocumented workers
  • "El bandido" : The evolution of images of Chicano criminality
  • Education : problems, issues, and alternatives
  • Part II. Chicano culture
  • The church : source of oppression or liberation?
  • La familia Chicana
  • Machismo
  • Conclusion: Toward a Chicana/Latina sociology paradigm for the twenty-first century
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Chicano-police conflict : a case study.