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Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity
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Focusing on the Mexican-origin, working-class city of La Puente in Los Angeles County, California, this book examines Mexican Americans' everyday attitudes toward and interactions with Mexican immigrants.
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
March 1st 2004
by University of Texas Press
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Jul 14, 2008
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One of the more relevant and interesting books I've had to read in grad school. I enjoyed it mainly due to it's personal accounts and interviews with Mexican Americans.
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Gilda Ochoa lives in Southern California. She is a professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies and teaches and writes about race/ethnicity, education, and communities. Her newest book -- Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap (2013) has received awards from the Asian American Studies Association and from sections of the American Sociological Association and the Society f
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