...This chapter examines the relationship between people of Mexican/Latin American descent and Idaho's established churches from the 1950s. A politically conservative state with an economy dominated by agriculture, mining, and forestry into the 1980s, Idaho attracted large numbers of Latino migrants...

...This chapter discusses the public discourse around the integration process of immigrant Latino workers in Emporia, Kansas. It employs aggregate statistical analysis, media-content analysis, and key-informant interviews to examine how the public discourse has changed over time. Particular attention...

...The Chicano Generation, largely the grandchildren of refugees who fled the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1930, came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and rejected the nativist definition of Latinos by consciously embracing their Mexican and Latin American cultural heritage. When they traveled...

...Latinos were categorized by new nativists as a dysfunctional urban underclass minority group that led a lifestyle sharply at odds with the accepted American values-based lifestyle: unemployed and not seeking work, dependent on welfare, families broken, and suffering from major health problems...

...The 2016 Republican presidential campaign has been based on an overtly anti–Mexican immigrant nativist message, another round in the universalistic versus nativist conflict over the definition of American. Nationally, Latinos exhibit the strong work ethic, avoidance of welfare...

...This book is a collection of important exchanges between Jorge J. E. Gracia and other prominent philosophers who have engaged him in dialogue on issues relating to race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity in the United States. These philosophers include Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Linda...

...This chapter explores issues related to the politics and social dimensions of race, with particular emphasis on Jorge J. E. Gracia's position. In his book Hispanic/Latino Identity (2000), Gracia makes a valuable contribution to contemporary philosophical discussions of racial...

...This chapter discusses the controversy concerning the proper label to use to refer to Hispanics/Latinos. It argues that adopting a term such as “Hispanics” globally to refer to what are, in fact, different groups of people is not only inaccurate but “disastrous.” It considers the groups of people...

...This chapter challenges Jorge J. E. Gracia's views about the nature of identity, the meaning of ethnic labels, the sociology of American philosophy, individuation, and linguistic rights. It focuses on four aspects of Gracia's book Latinos in America (2008) that it deems problematic...

...In this chapter, Jorge J. E. Gracia responds to various criticisms of his notion of ethnic philosophy, the use of the label “Latino philosophy” to refer to the philosophy produced both in Latin America and in the United States, the understanding of this philosophy as an ethnic philosophy...

...This chapter discusses relevant research on the integration, segregation, and multiethnic settings of Durham as a new Latino destination city. It presents interviews with White residents. It also provides background information and demographic and historical data about Creekridge Park. It also...

... the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. The backlash from this movement led to a dual economy. Women also were not full citizens until the 20^th century, and their right to full equality is still being contested. Latino immigrants more recently have entered racecraft on a par with blacks...

... a dearth of mortgage lending, were those that the HOLC did not survey at all--what this study refers to as the no-lined areas. The northern areas of the Mission District were no-lined, while the central Mission was shaded red on the maps. HOLC described the latter areas as white in spite of a large Latino...

...This chapter examines Latino identity in Mississippi by considering how identity can be understood in terms of demographics, the analysis of differences within the population, and, finally, the “Latino imaginary,” or the self-representations of the group itself. The chapter first provides a brief...

... that enable grassroots people to address community concerns and participate in the decision-making processes affecting them and their families. Arguably, the most significant contribution Latino Catholics make to public Catholicism is the various ways they reveal that the sometimes-harsh realities of everyday...

... collective and individual. As Burgos emerged as an icon specific to New York Latino/a culture, remembering her became one of the memory circuits mapping the migratory routes of New York Latino/a cosmopolitan networks. The chapter then charts the course of Burgos's iconography, mapping the migratory...

... interracial territories of incivility African Americans Certeau Michel de Chinchilla Norma Stoltz gangs in L A Hamilton Nora Lee Spike Paredes Américo Watts Rebellion 1965 Gates Daryl Korean–Latino conflict in Tattooed Soldier Los Angeles Police Department Van den Haag Ernest freedom private...

...This chapter examines the social-class origins of the Latino GBT activists, the compañeros. It proposes that social-class origins shaped some of these compañeros' life circumstances. That is, the social-class location of the families in which the activists were...

...This chapter discusses the ways in which Latino GBT activists live their lives as “Latinos” in a racial social system. In a parallel fashion to stigma related to gender nonconformity, it treats the racial labeling of groups as stigma. That is, to call someone Latino or to use the label...

...Although the dominant rhetoric in the media about “illegal” immigration continues to be that undocumented immigrants are not, and can never be, part of the “American” nation, stories by Latino/a writers as well as by the undocumented themselves are increasingly challenging such discourse. What we...