Title Fluid borders : Latino power, identity, and politics in Los Angeles / Lisa García Bedolla

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) Contents Latino political engagement: the intersection of power, identity(ies), and place -- Legacies of conquest: Latinos in California and Los Angeles -- A thin line between love and hate: language, social stigma, and intragroup relations -- Why vote? Race, identity(ies), and politics -- Community problems, collective solutions: Latinos and nonelectoral participation -- Fluid borders: Latinos, race, and American politics Summary This provocative study of the Latino political experience offers a nuanced, in-depth, and often surprising perspective on the factors affecting the political engagement of a segment of the population that is now the nation's largest minority. Drawing from one hundred in-depth interviews, Lisa García Bedolla compares the political attitudes and behavior of Latinos in two communities: working-class East Los Angeles and middle-class Montebello. Asking how collective identity and social context have affected political socialization, political attitudes and practices, and levels of political participation among the foreign born and native born, she offers new findings that are often at odds with the conventional wisdom emphasizing the role socioeconomic status plays in political involvement. Fluid Borders includes the voices of many individuals, offers exciting new research on Latina women indicating that they are more likely than men to vote and to participate in political activities, and considers how the experience of social stigma affects the collective identification and political engagement of members of marginal groups. This innovative study points the way toward a better understanding of the Latino political experience, and how it differs from that of other racial groups, by situating it at the intersection of power, collective identity, and place Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-270) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews Working class -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Politics and government Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Ethnic identity Hispanic Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions Social classes -- California -- Los Angeles Power (Social sciences) -- California -- Los Angeles HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Hispanic Americans Hispanic Americans -- Ethnic identity Hispanic Americans -- Politics and government Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions Politics and government Power (Social sciences) Social classes Social conditions Working class Ethnische Identität Hispanos Politische Beteiligung SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions Subject California -- Los Angeles Los Angeles, Calif. Hispanos. Genre/Form interviews. Interviews Interviews. Interviews. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520938496 0520938496 1423727622 9781423727620 9780520243682 0520243684 9780520243699 0520243692 1598757830 9781598757835 1282763172 9781282763173 9786612763175 6612763175

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