A01=Lisa Garcia Bedolla
american borders
Author_Lisa Garcia Bedolla
california
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collective identity
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largest minority group
latina women
latino experience
latino identity
latinos
los angeles
marginal groups
middle class
montebello
nonfiction study
personal interviews
personal power
political attitudes
political engagement
political identity
political participation
political socialization
racial minorities
social context
social stigmas
socioeconomic status
voting
working class communities
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243699
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Garcia 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.
Lisa Garcia Bedolla is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
