LEADER 03462nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910821707103321 005 20240516205417.0 010 $a0-8047-8316-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804783163 035 $a(CKB)2670000000233784 035 $a(EBL)978478 035 $a(OCoLC)804665044 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000736459 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12307312 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000736459 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10769245 035 $a(PQKB)11285650 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000128109 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC978478 035 $a(DE-B1597)564190 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804783163 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL978478 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587956 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769819 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000233784 100 $a20120131d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBarrios to burbs$b[electronic resource] $ethe making of the Mexican-American middle class /$fJody Agius Vallejo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8139-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aClass, assimilation, and Mexican Americans -- Mexican Americans yesterday and today -- From the barrio to the Middle America : divergent class backgrounds and pathways into the middle class -- Family obligations, giving back, and middle-class individualism -- Mexicans or coconuts : middle-class minority and American identities -- Ethnic professional associations and the minority culture of mobility -- Conclusion : the new American middle class. 330 $aToo frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. Barrios to Burbs offers a new understanding of the Mexican American experience. Vallejo explores the challenges that accompany rapid social mobility and examines a new indicator of incorporation, a familial obligation to "give back" in social and financial support. She investigates the salience of middle-class Mexican Americans' ethnic identification and details how relationships with poorer coethnics and affluent whites evolve as immigrants and their descendants move into traditionally white middle-class occupations. Disputing the argument that Mexican communities lack high quality resources and social capital that can help Mexican Americans incorporate into the middle class, Vallejo also examines civic participation in ethnic professional associations embedded in ethnic communities. 606 $aMiddle class Mexican Americans 606 $aMexican Americans$xSocial conditions 606 $aSocial mobility$zUnited States 615 0$aMiddle class Mexican Americans. 615 0$aMexican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aSocial mobility 676 $a973/.046872 700 $aAgius Vallejo$b Jody$01607950 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821707103321 996 $aBarrios to burbs$93934427 997 $aUNINA