Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority

by Peter Skerry

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Skerry compares the fortunes and outlook of Mexican Americans in San Antonio and Los Angeles. In Texas he finds a previously subjugated community emerging into the political mainstream; in California, despite greater material success, Mexican politicians are obsessed with racial injustice.

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Peter Skerry

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Peter Skerry is a nonresident senior fellow in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution and teaches political science at Claremont McKenna College.

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Winner – Current Interest – 1993)

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Genres: Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 323.1 — Society, government, & culture Political science Civil Rights & Liberties/ Human Rights Minority Politics
LCC: E184 .M5 .S57 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans
BISAC: SOC SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology General

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