Race and politics
Subtitle: Asian Americans, Latinos, and whites in a Los Angeles suburb
By: Leland T. Saito ; foreword by Roger Daniels.
Series: The Asian American experience
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Asian Americans -- California -- Monterey Park; Hispanic Americans -- California -- Monterey Park; Whites -- California -- Monterey Park; Monterey Park (Calif.) -- Race relations; Monterey Park (Calif.) -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : race, ethnicity, and politics; title: Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley : regional, national, and international trends; title: Reasserting whiteness : transforming history and architecture, from "Mexican" to "Spanish" to "Mediterranean"; title: Asian American politics : identity, political mobilization, and regional networks; title: Asian American political issues; title: "Common ground" : from agricultural struggles to urban politics in Latino and Asian American relations; title: The case of redistricting : the growing organizational scale of politics and interracial alliances; title: Conclusion : "progress"?