A distinct integration path? Latino economic elites in Los Angeles growing the Latino middle class

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11920718
AutoresJ A Vallejo (0009-0005-5815-0057, University of Southern California), Blanca A Ramirez (0000-0001-9400-4616, University of California, Los Angeles), Blanca Ramírez (Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles)
Año2023
Volumen54
Número3
Páginas422-440
Fecha de publicación2023-08-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCompare A Journal of Comparative and International Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-7925 • E-ISSN: 1469-3623
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03057925.2023.2234278
OpenAlexW4385836349
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas57

This research examines Latino economic elites in Los Angeles who engage in 'ethnoracial philanthropy' – giving to or creating ethnic-centric organisations that focus on alleviating socioeconomic inequalities. We draw on 65 in-depth interviews to provide insights into the ethnoracial educational structures created by Latino elites to facilitate the mobility of Latino youth. We compare three ways in which philanthropy manifests: via the creation of Latino scholarship funds; ethnic-centric charter schools in low-income Latino neighbourhoods; Latino youth leadership programmes comprised of college students from the top 100 universities. These institutions may serve to widen the path to inclusion by creating a distinct ethnoracial integration path via education, contrasting with assimilation theory and the minority culture of mobility framework. However, the focus on education, and not on other issues, benefits those who reproduce the elites' image.KEYWORDS: Educational mobilityethnoracial philanthropyLatino elitesminority culture of mobilityLatinos AcknowledgmentsWe thank Sean Angst, Jazmin Muro, and Stephanie Canizales for research assistance. We also thank Tim Biblarz, Richard Green, Pierrette Hondagnue-Sotelo, Zulema Valdez, Tanya Golash-Boza, Jason Seawright, Sara Goodman, George Sanchez and the anonymous reviewers for critical comments and suggestions. We also thank our research participants for participating in this study. This research was supported by the American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, the UC Davis Centre for Poverty Research, The John and Dora Haynes Foundation, USC Office of the Provost, and the USC Lusk Centre for Real Estate. This paper also benefited significantly from presentations at the 2015 Southwest Mixed Methods Research Workshop at the University of New Mexico, the University of California, Merced and Davis, and Stanford University.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation [Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline]; UC Davis Centre for Poverty Research Lusk Centre for Real Estate

Charter · Critical race theory · Ethnic group · Middle class · Political science · Poverty · Racism · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies