Barrios to burbs
Subtitle: the making of the Mexican-American middle class
By: Jody Agius Vallejo
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780804781398
Subjects: Social conditions; Middle class Mexican Americans; Mexican Americans; Social mobility
Description: "Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. Barrios to Burbs offers a new understanding of the Mexican American experience."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Class, assimilation, and Mexican Americans; title: Mexican Americans yesterday and today; title: From the barrio to the Middle America : divergent class backgrounds and pathways into the middle class; title: Family obligations, giving back, and middle-class individualism; title: Mexicans or coconuts : middle-class minority and American identities; title: Ethnic professional associations and the minority culture of mobility; title: Conclusion : the new American middle class.