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Some Of Us Have Been Here For Three Hundred Years, Some For Three Days. This Comment, Often Repeated By Mexican Americans, Affirms Their Status As One Of America's Oldest Ethnic Groups, As Well As One Of Its Newest And Fastest Growing. Not Surprisingly, Many Observers (including Some Mexican Americans) Are Concerned About The Impact Of The Burgeoning Number Of Mexican Immigrants On Our Society - Anxieties Exacerbated By Leaders Whose Demands For Bilingual Schools And Ballots Challenge The Goal Of Assimilation. Yet For Skerry The Critical Question Is Not Whether Mexican Immigrants Will Join The American Mainstream, But How - On What Terms. Those Terms, He Argues, Will Be Forged In The Political Arena, Where Enormous Changes Have Been Wrought During The Past Twenty-five Years. Gone Are The Strong Local Party Organizations That Once Helped Newcomers Adapt. In Their Stead Are Nationalized Parties With Weak Local Roots, And Civil Rights Efforts Such As The Voting Rights Act, Which Offer Mexican Americans Powerful Incentives To Define Themselves Not As An Aspiring Immigrant Ethnic Group But As A Racially Oppressed Minority. These Divergent Political Styles Emerge From Skerry's Comparison

Author

Skerry, Peter

Publisher

Free Press ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780029291320

Subjects

Political Science, History, Humanities