How Did You Get To Be Mexican

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957453703321
• Autore: Johnson Kevin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 9786612660320; 9781282660328; 1282660322; 9781592138180; 1592138187
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.868/72073/092; 305.86872092
• Soggetti: Johnson, Kevin R; Mexican Americans -- Biography; Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity; Race awareness; Multiracial people; Multiracial people -- United States -- Biography; Multiracial people -- United States -- Race identity; United States; United States -- Race relations; Mexican Americans - Ethnic identity - United States; Mexican Americans - Race identity - United States; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Ethnic & Race Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. A ""Latino"" Law Student? Law 4 Sale at Harvard Law School; 3. My Mother: One Assimilation Story; 4. My Father: Planting the Seeds of a Racial Consciousness; 5. Growing Up White?; 6. College: Beginning to Recognize Racial Complexities; A ; Family Gallery; 7. A Corporate Lawyer: Happily Avoiding the Issue; 8. A Latino Law Professor; 9. My Family/Mi Familia; 10. Lessons for Latino Assimilation; 11. What Does It All Mean for Race Relations in the United States?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This compelling account of racial identity takes a close look at the question ""Who is a Latino?"" and determines where persons of mixed Latino-Anglo heritage fit into the racial dynamics of the United States. The son of a Mexican American mother and an Anglo father, Kevin Johnson has spent his life in the borderlands between racial identities. In this insightful book, he uses his experiences as a mixed Latino-Anglo to examine issues of diversity, assimilation, race relations, and affirmative action in contemporary America.