Christine Marie Sierra
Biographic Data
| ID | 692875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Marie Sierra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sierra |
| SIGNATURE | SIERRA C M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America
Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership (GMCL) National Database and Survey, it provides a baseline portrait of Black, Latino, Asian American, and American Indian elected officials - the women and men holding public office at national, st…
The Voting Rights Act and the Election of Nonwhite Officials
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is one of the most important—if not the most important—public policies developed over the last half century to increase access to the U.S. political system for people of color. The VRA also provides an important context for understanding the ascension of nonwhite groups into the elected leadership of the nation (Browning, Marshall, and Tabb 1984; Davidson and Grofman 1994; Menifield 2001; McClain and Stewart 2002; Segu…
Gender, Race, and Descriptive Representation in the United States: Findings from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project
This research draws on the nation's first comprehensive database of elected leadership of color to provide a multi-cultural, multi-office, and multi-state look at the contours and context of descriptive representation by race and gender and with women of color at the center of analysis. We find that key to the persistent trend of growth in elective office holding of the nation's Black, Latino, and Asian American communities in recent decades is t…
Latino Immigration and Citizenship
Immigration figures prominently in Latino politics in both historical and contemporary terms. It underlies the formation and development of a longstanding Latino presence in the United States. Indeed, the very heritage of the Latino people is rooted in the history of conquest and settlement in the Americas. In more recent times, immigration has fueled the growth of the Latino population in the United States; over 40% of U.S. Latinos are first
Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century
The various protest movements that together constituted the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s urged a "politics of inclusion" to bring Mexican Americans into the mainstream of United States political and social life. This volume of ten specially commissioned essays assesses the post-movement years, asking "what went wrong? what went right? and where are we now?" Collectively, the essays offer a wide-ranging portrayal of the complex situatio…
Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate
Latinos, along with other new immigrants, are not being incorporated into U.S. politics as rapidly as their predecessors, raising concerns about political fragmentation along ethnic lines. In Counting on the Latino Vote, Louis DeSipio uses the first national studies of Latinos to investigate whether they engage in bloc voting or are likely to do so in the future.To understand American racial and ethnic minority group politics, social scientists h…
Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race and Gender
This landmark collection of essays from the 1984 National Association for Chicana Studies conference entitled Voces de la Mujer offers a cross-section of the interdisciplinary scholarship on Chicanas in U.S. society. Chicanas roles in politics, history, bilingualism, the work force, literature, and higher education are examined in depth in the twenty essays. Introducing the third printing of this influential book in a new foreword by Teresa Crdov…
Mexicans in the United States: History, Evolution, and Transformation
Latinos are the second-largest ethnic minority group in the United States. 1 They are also the fastest-growing sector. According to the 1980 U.S. Census, Latinos numbered close to fifteen million, and in 1990, they will approximate twenty million. Sometime within the next several decades, Latinos will surpass blacks as the nation's largest mi-218
Gender, Race, and Descriptive Representation in the United States: Findings from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project
This research draws on the nation's first comprehensive database of elected leadership of color to provide a multi-cultural, multi-office, and multi-state look at the contours and context of descriptive representation by race and gender and with women of color at the center of analysis. We find that key to the persistent trend of growth in elective office holding of the nation's Black, Latino, and Asian American communities in recent decades is t…
The Voting Rights Act and the Election of Nonwhite Officials
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is one of the most important—if not the most important—public policies developed over the last half century to increase access to the U.S. political system for people of color. The VRA also provides an important context for understanding the ascension of nonwhite groups into the elected leadership of the nation (Browning, Marshall, and Tabb 1984; Davidson and Grofman 1994; Menifield 2001; McClain and Stewart 2002; Segu…
Latino Immigration and Citizenship
Immigration figures prominently in Latino politics in both historical and contemporary terms. It underlies the formation and development of a longstanding Latino presence in the United States. Indeed, the very heritage of the Latino people is rooted in the history of conquest and settlement in the Americas. In more recent times, immigration has fueled the growth of the Latino population in the United States; over 40% of U.S. Latinos are first
Mexicans in the United States: History, Evolution, and Transformation
Latinos are the second-largest ethnic minority group in the United States. 1 They are also the fastest-growing sector. According to the 1980 U.S. Census, Latinos numbered close to fifteen million, and in 1990, they will approximate twenty million. Sometime within the next several decades, Latinos will surpass blacks as the nation's largest mi-218
Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race and Gender
This landmark collection of essays from the 1984 National Association for Chicana Studies conference entitled Voces de la Mujer offers a cross-section of the interdisciplinary scholarship on Chicanas in U.S. society. Chicanas roles in politics, history, bilingualism, the work force, literature, and higher education are examined in depth in the twenty essays. Introducing the third printing of this influential book in a new foreword by Teresa Crdov…
Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate
Latinos, along with other new immigrants, are not being incorporated into U.S. politics as rapidly as their predecessors, raising concerns about political fragmentation along ethnic lines. In Counting on the Latino Vote, Louis DeSipio uses the first national studies of Latinos to investigate whether they engage in bloc voting or are likely to do so in the future.To understand American racial and ethnic minority group politics, social scientists h…
Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century
The various protest movements that together constituted the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s urged a "politics of inclusion" to bring Mexican Americans into the mainstream of United States political and social life. This volume of ten specially commissioned essays assesses the post-movement years, asking "what went wrong? what went right? and where are we now?" Collectively, the essays offer a wide-ranging portrayal of the complex situatio…
Latino Immigration and Citizenship
Immigration figures prominently in Latino politics in both historical and contemporary terms. It underlies the formation and development of a longstanding Latino presence in the United States. Indeed, the very heritage of the Latino people is rooted in the history of conquest and settlement in the Americas. In more recent times, immigration has fueled the growth of the Latino population in the United States; over 40% of U.S. Latinos are first
Gender, Race, and Descriptive Representation in the United States: Findings from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership Project
This research draws on the nation's first comprehensive database of elected leadership of color to provide a multi-cultural, multi-office, and multi-state look at the contours and context of descriptive representation by race and gender and with women of color at the center of analysis. We find that key to the persistent trend of growth in elective office holding of the nation's Black, Latino, and Asian American communities in recent decades is t…
The Voting Rights Act and the Election of Nonwhite Officials
The Voting Rights Act (VRA) is one of the most important—if not the most important—public policies developed over the last half century to increase access to the U.S. political system for people of color. The VRA also provides an important context for understanding the ascension of nonwhite groups into the elected leadership of the nation (Browning, Marshall, and Tabb 1984; Davidson and Grofman 1994; Menifield 2001; McClain and Stewart 2002; Segu…
Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in 21st Century America
Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the Gender and Multicultural Leadership (GMCL) National Database and Survey, it provides a baseline portrait of Black, Latino, Asian American, and American Indian elected officials - the women and men holding public office at national, st…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · History (3 works) · Demography (2 works)