A01=Tamis Hoover Renteria
Author_Tamis Hoover Renteria
Category=JP
Chicano Community
Chicano Lawyers
Chicano Literature
Chicano Movement
Chicano Movement Culture
Chicano Professionals
Chicano Students
Chicano Time
Dense
Double Glass Doors
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Family Practice Doctors
Good Life
Health Organization Literature
Latino Lawyers
MABA
Make Up
Mexican American
Movement Cohort
Movement Values
Spanish Language
Stanford Alumni
Student Run Clinic
White Memorial Hospital
Wo
Working Class Mexican
Product details
- ISBN 9781138991187
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 29 Feb 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1998. As beneficiaries of aggressive affirmative action policies, Chicano doctors and lawyers educated in universities during the 1960s and early 1970s now dominate Mexican American professional politics and culture in Los Angeles. Chicano professionals have not shed their ethnicity or lost interest in working class Mexican Americans. Rather, they have maintained a sense of ethnic uniqueness and political entitlement through a Chicano professional culture. Rooted in the Chicano Movement, this culture is sustained through networks based on family; professional organization rituals with distinctive Chicano elements; arguments over ethnic labeling; and a variety of ethnic activities in daily life. Chicano professional culture is nurtured by a responsibility for the blue collar Mexican American population; an awareness of continuing discrimination against all Mexican Americans; and the ethnic culture of working class Mexican Americans who have retained their traditions even as they have moved into the Anglo-dominated American upper class. This book is a significant contribution to the sparse literature depicting the experiences of the Latinos who attended prestigious professional schools in unprecedented numbers during the height of affirmative action policies. The book also poses a significant challenge to the commonly-held assumption that class mobility inevitably leads to assimilation. Index. Bibliography.
