Fluid borders [[electronic resource] ] : Latino power, identity, and politics in Los Angeles / / Lisa Garc?ia Bedolla

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450077203321
• Autore: García Bedolla Lisa <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-282-76317-2; 0-520-93849-6; 9786612763175; 1-59875-783-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.4/9400468
• Soggetti: Hispanic Americans - California - Los Angeles; Working class - California - Los Angeles; 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; Electronic books.; Los Angeles (Calif.) Politics and government; Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Latino Political Engagement: The Intersection of Power, Identity(ies), and Place -- 2. Legacies of Conquest: Latinos in California and Los Angeles -- 3. A Thin Line between Love and Hate: Language, Social Stigma, and Intragroup Relations -- 4. Why Vote? Race, Identity(ies), and Politics -- 5. Community Problems, Collective Solutions: Latinos and Nonelectoral Participation -- Conclusion. Fluid Borders: Latinos, Race, and American Politics -- Appendix A: Study Respondents -- Appendix B: Interview Questionnaire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.

Geographies of Mars [[electronic resource] ] : seeing and knowing the red planet / / K. Maria D. Lane

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459595503321
• Autore: Lane K. Maria D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-05837-5; 9786613058379; 0-226-47079-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 523.43072
• Soggetti: Martians; Electronic books.; Mars (Planet) Research History 19th century; Mars (Planet) Research History 20th century; Mars (Planet) Geography; Mars (Planet) Maps
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Understanding Mars: sensation, science, and geography -- Representing scientific data: cartographic inscription and visual authority -- Representing scientific sites: vision and fieldwork at the mountain observatories -- Representing scientists: heroism, adventure, and the geographical outlook -- Placing the red planet: meanings in the martian landscape -- Toward a cultural geography of Mars: imaginative geography and the superior Martian.
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet-a hope that continued into the 1960's. Although the Martian canals have long since been dismissed as a famous error in the history of science, K. Maria D. Lane argues that there was nothing accidental about these early interpretations. Indeed, she argues, the construction of Mars as an incomprehensibly complex and engineered world both reflected and challenged dominant geopolitical themes during a time of major cultural, intellectual, political, and economic ; transition in the Western world. Geographies of Mars telescopes in on a critical period in the development of the geographical imagination, when European imperialism was at its zenith and American expansionism had begun in earnest. Astronomers working in the new observatories of the American Southwest or in the remote heights of the South American Andes were inspired, Lane finds, by their own physical surroundings and used representations of the Earth's arid landscapes to establish credibility for their observations of Mars. With this simple shift to the geographer's point of view, Lane deftly explains some of the most perplexing stances on Mars taken by familiar protagonists such as Percival Lowell, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Lester Frank Ward. A highly original exploration of geography's spatial dimensions at the beginning of the twentieth century, Geographies of Mars offers a new view of the mapping of far-off worlds.