This revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new
interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that
shape the situation of Chicanos today. For more than thirty years,
and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirande's The Chicano
Experience has captivated readers with its groundbreaking analysis
of Chicanos in the United States. Although its original context
differs markedly from the current demographic landscape, it remains
no less relevant today-Latinos have emerged as the largest minority
population in the United States. With updated chapters revised in
light of contemporary scholarship, this second edition speaks to
the Chicano of today, in addition to puertoriquenos, Central
Americans, and other groups who share common experiences of
colonization, racialization, and, especially in the last decade,
demonization. In this foundational text, Mirande develops a
comprehensive framework for Chicano sociology that, in attending
closely to Chicano experience, aims to correct the biases and
misconceptions that have prevailed in the field. He demonstrates
how the conventional immigrant group model of society, with its
focus on assimilation into mainstream American culture, does not
apply to Chicanos. Supporting this constructive proposal are
analyses of Chicano social history and culture, with chapters
focusing on the economy, the border, law, education, family, gender
and machismo, and religion. The book concludes with a case study of
community attitudes toward the police in an urban barrio. In many
ways, the first edition of The Chicano Experience anticipated the
sensitivity to the experiences of the underrepresented in American
culture. This second edition reaffirms the prescience of Mirande's
work and makes it available to a new generation of students and
scholars of Chicano and Latino studies, ethnic and race studies,
sociology, and cultural studies.
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