Barrios to Burbs

The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20032896
AutoresJody Agius Vallejo (autor de correspondencia), Jody Vallejo
Año2012
Páginas231
Fecha de publicación2012-08-15
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaBarrios to burbs (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11126/stanford/9780804781398.001.0001
OpenAlexW4238618238
Open LibraryOL25223444M
ISBN9780804781398
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas146

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. This book 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 coethnics and affluent whites evolve as immigrants and their descendants move into traditionally white middle-class occupations. Disputing the argument that Mexican communities lack high-quality resources and social capital which can help Mexican Americans incorporate into the middle class, it also examines civic participation in ethnic professional associations embedded in ethnic communities

Argument (complex analysis) · Development economics · Ethnic group · Immigration · Middle class · Obligation · Political science · Population · Salience (neuroscience) · Social capital · Social mobility · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Mexican Americans · Middle class Mexican Americans · Social conditions · united states