Out Of The Barrio: Toward A New Politics Of Hispanic Assimilation
Hispanic Americans are not an impoverished minority group on the fast track to the permanent underclass, despite all the rhetoric to this effect coming from the victimization industry. To the contrary, they are an upwardly mobile group in pursuit of the American dream. Like immigrants in the past, they simply need time to adapt to their new home. In this brilliant analysis, Linda Chavez conclusively shows that the main obstacle to their progress is not racism or nativism among the native-born but misguided public policies such as bilingual education that inhibit Hispanics from entering the mainstream.