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The rise of the Latino vote : a history / Benjamin Francis-Fallon.

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"The Rise of the Latino Vote examines the struggles of activists and elected officials from the 1960s to the 1980s to mold Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans into a single national political constituency. Its argument is three-fold. First, it argues that the drive to forge the "S...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Francis-Fallon, Benjamin, 1979- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Political activity.
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
Hispanic Americans > Suffrage.
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Hispanic Americans > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • The many political communities of Latino America
  • Viva Kennedy and the nationalization of "Latin American" politics
  • Civil rights and the recognition of a "national minority"
  • Becoming Spanish-speaking, becoming Spanish origin
  • Mastering the "Spanish-speaking concept"
  • Liberal Democrats and the meanings of "Unidos"
  • The "Brown mafia" and middle-class Spanish-speaking politics in 1972
  • The "impossible dream" of the Hispanic Republican movement
  • Securing representation in a multicultural democracy
  • Latino liberalism in an era of limits
  • The "new Hispanic conservatives"

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