| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Class, assimilation, and Mexican Americans -- Mexican Americans yesterday and today -- Barrios to burbs : divergent class backgrounds and pathways into the middle class -- Family obligations: the immigrant narrative and middle-calss individualism -- Mexican Americans or coconuts? : middle-class minority and American identities -- Ethnic professional associations and the minority culture of mobility -- Conclusion : the new American middle class. |
| Summary |
This study offers a new understanding of the Mexican-American experience. It explores the challenges that accompany rapid social mobility and examines a new indicator of incorporation, a familial obligation to 'give back' in social and financial support. The book investigates the salience of middle-class Mexican Americans' ethnic identification, and details how relationships with poorer co-ethnics and affluent whites evolve as immigrants and their descendants move into traditionally white middle-class occupations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle class Mexican Americans.
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Middle class Mexican Americans. |
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Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.
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Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. |
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Social mobility -- United States.
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Social mobility. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Agius Vallejo, Jody. Barrios to burbs 9780804781398 (DLC) 2012004369 (OCoLC)778314622 |
| ISBN |
9780804783163 (electronic book) |
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0804783160 (electronic book) |
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9780804781398 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0804781397 |
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