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“Neither Villains nor Heroes”: Making Hispanics in America - G. Cristina Mora, Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats and Media Constructed a New American (Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2014)

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G. Cristina Mora, Making Hispanics: How Activists, Bureaucrats and Media Constructed a New American (Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2014)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2015

Christian Joppke*
Affiliation:
Institute of Sociology, University of Bern [christian.joppke@soz.unibe.ch].
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References

1 Linda Chavez, Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation. New York: Basic Books 1991.

2 Yen Le Espiritu, Asian American Panethnicity. Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press 1993. This work is notionally on the “Asian“ case, but it is fashioned as part of a larger story of “Native Americans“ and “Latino Americans“ as (non-European) “ethnic groups [that] have united to protest and promote their collective interests“ (pp. 2-3).

3 David Hollinger, Postethnic America, New York: Basic Books 1995.

4 See Jennifer Hochschild and Brenna Powell, “Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930”, Studies in American Political Development 22 (1), 2008, 59-96.

5 See the crisp theoretical synopsis of her book, Cristina Mora, “Cross-Field Effects and Ethnic Classification”, American Sociological Review 79 (2), 2014, 183-210.