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affirmative
affirmative action impact
american
Author_Tamis Hoover Renteria
Bicultural Professionals
Blue Collar Backgrounds
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Category=JHM
Chicano Community
Chicano Lawyers
Chicano Movement
Chicano Movement Culture
Chicano Professionals
Chicano Student Movement
Chicano Students
Chicano Time
community
corporate
culture
Dense
discrimination in higher education
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ethnic identity formation
Family Practice Doctors
firm
Good Life
Health Organization Literature
Latino Lawyers
law
lawyer
Los Angeles Chicano professional experience
MABA
Make Up
mexican
Mexican American
Mexican American professionals
movement
Movement Cohort
Munoz
professional socialization networks
social mobility research
Stanford Alumni
White Memorial Hospital
Wo
Working Class Mexican
Working Class Mexican American
Product details
- ISBN 9780815330936
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
