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Mexican Americans, Ethnicity, and Federal Policy

其他書名	The League of United Latin American Citizens and the Politics of Cultural Disadvantage, 1942-1975
出版	Vanderbilt University, 1999
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xJ0LAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Like all descendants of immigrants, Mexican Americans have faced tensions between their ethnic identity and their identity as American citizens. The federal policy arena is an important, but largely unexplored, venue in which these tensions play out. This project examine the emerging ethnic identity of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and largest Mexican American organization in the country. From 1942, when the U.S. government began importing laborers from Mexico, through 1975, when the government mandated bilingual/bicultural education and voting protections, LULAC members engaged a series of policy issues, each time adjusting the balance between the Mexican and American elements of their identity. Significantly, throughout this period LULAC refused to call Mexican Americans a racial minority. As they became more convinced that Mexican Americans deserved particular remedies as a disadvantaged group, they supported programs to remedy cultural, rather than racial, discrimination. This dissertation explores the way LULAC members balanced their ethnic identity and American citizenship, how those views and the systemic changes of the 1960s shaped their expectations of the federal government, and how federal policymakers reacted to the entrance of LULAC, and Mexican Americans in general, into the federal policy arena. By relating the study of developing views of identity and ethnicity at the grassroots level with the study of federal policy and party politics, this dissertation offers an important bridge between the history of social movements and the history of policy development.