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The 2010 U.S. Census data showed that over the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation's population growth. This book collects essays that examine this phenomenal growth. In order to understand the Latino community in all its diversity, the analysis has to begin at the grassroots level. The political future of the Latino community in the United States in the twenty-first century will be largely determined by the various roles they have played in the major urban centers across the nation. These essays collectively suggest that political agency can encompass everything from voting, lobbying, networking, grassroots organizing, and mobilization, to dramatic protest. Latinos are, in fact, gaining access to the same political institutions that worked so hard to marginalize them.
Introduction : Latino urban agency / Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales -- Latino political agency in Los Angeles past & present : diverse conflicts, diverse coalitions, and fates that intertwine / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval -- The rebirth of Latino urban agency in San Francisco : from the MCO to the MAC, 1967-2006 / Richard Edward DeLeon -- The fight for school equity in Chicago's Latino neighborhoods / Melissa R. Michelson -- Manny Diaz and the rise and fall of the Miami renaissance / Jessica Lavariega Monforti, Juan Carlos Flores, and Dario Moreno -- "I don't see color, I just vote for the best candidate" : the persistence of ethnic polarized voting / Sylvia Manzano and Arturo Vega -- Conclusion : Latino urban agency in the twenty-first century / Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales.
edited by Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales.
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Number 8 in Al filo: Mexican American studies series