Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles: The Fuentes StoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007 M04 9 - 198 pages Despite their citizenship and English monolingualism, Mexican Americans have long been known to remain largely working class, which, academically, has meant that they tend to be mostly high school graduates, with low rates of college attendance and completion. Attempting to understand this phenomenon, Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles chronicles the home, work and school lives of the author's multigenerational family throughout the twentieth century. Using oral histories of 33 members across five generations, the Fuentes story illuminates the interaction between race, ethnicity and class at home, in the labor market and in schools, which circumscribe the opportunity and resources (or lack thereof) for academic success. Generally, findings show that these factors work together to reproduce the family's social standing over generations. Equally important, the analysis reveals how the persistence and strength of the Fuentes' heritage cultural values (buena educaci-n and familism) have insulated them from the continued threat of racial discrimination and economic hardship in American life. The Fuentes story provides the reader with a keen view of the process by which Fuentes' moved from immigrants to ethnic Americans, and shows how they have gracefully survived the harsh and unpredictable nature of being of a racial minority and the working class. |
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... Generations 15 2 Home , Part I : The Original Fuentes Home 39 3 Home , Part II : Later - Generation Fuentes Homes 57 4 Fuentes ' at Work 77 5 School , Part I : Fuentes ' in Schools 95 6 School , Part II : Fuentes ' Homes , Language and ...
... Generations 15 2 Home , Part I : The Original Fuentes Home 39 3 Home , Part II : Later - Generation Fuentes Homes 57 4 Fuentes ' at Work 77 5 School , Part I : Fuentes ' in Schools 95 6 School , Part II : Fuentes ' Homes , Language and ...
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... later - generation Chi- canos , those in the third generation or later , are qualitatively different from their foreign - born counterparts ( Browning and De La Garza 1986 ; Espinoza - Herrold 2003 ; Matute - Bianchi 1991 ; Ochoa 2004 ...
... later - generation Chi- canos , those in the third generation or later , are qualitatively different from their foreign - born counterparts ( Browning and De La Garza 1986 ; Espinoza - Herrold 2003 ; Matute - Bianchi 1991 ; Ochoa 2004 ...
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... later - generation Chicanos are as economically and scholasti- cally vulnerable as Mexican immigrants . Because Latinos are the fastest growing minority , I argue that research on later - generation Chicanos be recognized and undertaken ...
... later - generation Chicanos are as economically and scholasti- cally vulnerable as Mexican immigrants . Because Latinos are the fastest growing minority , I argue that research on later - generation Chicanos be recognized and undertaken ...
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... generation but rather disaggregate for foreign- and native - born Mexi- can Americans . Thus , few specific statistics exist for later - generation Chicanos , which almost exclusively refers to third generation . 2. While recent work on ...
... generation but rather disaggregate for foreign- and native - born Mexi- can Americans . Thus , few specific statistics exist for later - generation Chicanos , which almost exclusively refers to third generation . 2. While recent work on ...
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... later - generation Chicanos , those born and raised in the United States of third generation or more , considered . Later - genera- tion Chicanos have been characterized as different from Mexican immi- grants and their children . They ...
... later - generation Chicanos , those born and raised in the United States of third generation or more , considered . Later - genera- tion Chicanos have been characterized as different from Mexican immi- grants and their children . They ...
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African Americans Anglo attended barrio brother buena educación Carlos Fuentes Chávez Chicano English Chicano movement chil child children's schooling claimed cohort counselor Cristian daughter despite Dora eleventh grade Elisa encouraged English Erica ethnic experienced family's father fifth-generation Florencia fourth-generation members Francis Fuentes children Fuentes family Fuentes home Fuentes members Fuentes parents Fuentes's Gerald grade graduate groups high school Hispanic homework Isabel Ivan junior high Katarina kids labor market language Latino families Latino students Laura learned literacy lives Los Angeles County Lydia Mario and Manuela married Mexican American families Mexican and Mexican Mexican immigrant middle-class mother Natalie Noemi older third-generation parental involvement participants percent race racial recalled responsibility role Samuel San Fernando Valley school experience second-generation Fuentes second-generation members siblings Simon sister social Spanish Spanish language story success teachers third-generation members Timothy tion tracks Valley wanted workers working-class younger Yvette